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
:)
