Could this explain it? https://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2016-October/msg00009.html
On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 3:07 AM, A.J. Bonnema <gbonn...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 10/15/2016 10:57 AM, Mike wrote: > >> I've never met Peter Norton. I think I installed some Norton software in >> the 90s. I don't recall much about it or him so I have nothing to compare. >> I think there is a nc clone/wannabee out there somewhere, but mc is only >> similar by accident - the 2 panel thing. Apparently it is a "visual shell >> for *nix environments", not a "file manager", although I categorize it as >> one, like most users I think. midnight commander has its origins from the >> 90s too. It sucked far worse back then. >> > Hey Mike, > > I used to love Norton Commander (nc) because of its function keys for copy > and move in combination with easy selection of files. Those are the traits > that mc copied from norton and made me start using MC. Probably MC also > copied the editting. In comparison to DOS at the time, Norton Commander was > really a breeze of fresh air. He really thought things through. When I > switched to Linux I went to MC and never looked back. He also made other > more system oriented software for windows, but I am getting OT now. > > Anyway, I like MC for the same reasons and especially for the reason it is > reliable. With one exception everything works as I expect it to. The > exception is that sometimes the current directory is remembered when > finishing MC, and sometimes it isn't and you end up in the original > directory that you started MC. This usually happens after full upgrade or > installing a new OS (Fedora -> Ubuntu or back) > > I haven't seen this for a while, so probably the setup of MC has improved. > I work from Fedora 24 atm. > > Kind regards, Guus. > > > _______________________________________________ > mc mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc >
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