On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> Emacs is said to be able to do this using tramp but I haven't ever >>> gotten it to work. >>> >>> Konqueror can do it... but I don't run kde, and don't really want to >>> fiddle with it in that direction. >> >> Midnight Commander can do it. > > Haa, there is an old time tool... what do I need to use in `eix' to > find it. > > `eix midnight' fails as does `eix commander' > > Does it have a different name in portage? > > I did find a vimcommander... maybe that will have the functionality > too, since it says it has a commander style interface.
It's tricky since the program name is Midnight Commander but the package & executable name is "mc". You can use the -S switch for eix to make it search descriptions as well as the package name when something's pkgname is not obvious. For example: $ eix -S midnight.commander [I] app-misc/mc Available versions: 4.6.1-r4 4.7.0_pre1 (~)4.7.0_pre2 (~)4.7.0_pre2-r1 {7zip X chdir +edit gpm ncurses nls samba (+)slang unicode} Installed versions: 4.7.0_pre2-r1(12:24:04 AM 09/06/2009)(X edit gpm nls samba slang -chdir) Homepage: http://www.midnight-commander.org Description: GNU Midnight Commander is a text based file manager :)