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After moving from Windows to MacOS mc is the closest to Total Commander - the only software that I’m still missing from MacOS. Reminds me to DOS Navigator and Volkov Commander or even FAR

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Try doublecmd[1], much better then tc, open source, updated frequently, works on all platforms. Oh and written in object pascal, which I like a lot!

[1]: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io

Tried it on linux. It crashed while moving folder. Like the main thing it's used for.

It works fine for me. When did you tested it?

In May

Well while note open-source (but still free), Marta is the best MacOS TotalCommander alternative: https://marta.sh/

Midnight Commander is available under Brew.

https://brew.sh/

The command to install it is:

brew install mc

Thanks, your comment was the one I was looking for, even though I had guessed that ‘brew install mc’ would work. I am curious how mc will fit in with tmux and emacs-nw.

With tmux it is seamless, screen as well.

I don't know anything about Emacs =)

The command to install it is:

brew install mc

The Midnight Commander web site says to use

  % brew install midnight-commander

mc is an alias to it.

Volkov Commander was so fast on my 486, amazing thing. Think it was written in assembly to get that speed.

FAR was awesome.

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