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AppSignal
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sharpkeys
SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
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Kargo
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doublecmd
Double Commander is a free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
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vifm
Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
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qrcp
:zap: Transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.
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SaaSHub
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- Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating
- GNU Midnight Commander
- Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs
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Show HN: Facad. The ls alternative making terminals cooler than GUIs
Would a commander type TUI work for you?
https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc
https://github.com/ranger/ranger
https://github.com/jarun/nnn
There's also superfile and broot, but personally I feel like they try to do a little too much, might work for you though:
https://github.com/yorukot/superfile
https://github.com/Canop/broot
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Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
Depends on the archive type and how the vfs/extfs code was implemented for it¹. It also depends on how the archive is treated if it is compressed container, which can be seen by looking at how a .tar and .tar.xz are handled for example. The zip handler is probably the easiest to understand, as it doesn't need to contend with external compression wrappers and is a simple perl script.
Implementing your own extfs scripts to wrap a simple menu around some task can be really useful, far beyond basic archives. I wrote one so that I can shuffle my todo list priorities by moving fake "task files" in to different pseudo-directories.
¹ https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/tree/master/src/vfs/
- Total Commander
- Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
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CTRL key stuck in Midnight Commander in 22.04
I will consider a bug report, too bad you can't submit a ticket via github.
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Former Xamarin co-founder Miguel de Icaza is leaving Microsoft
I really love how relative this feels, as for me "creator of mc¹" feels like the thing I owe him most thanks for. Every now and then I work on a project that is built on the foundations from mono, but all day I work in a way that uses mc.
¹ https://www.midnight-commander.org
- TIL: Midnight Commander | Open Same Folder in Another Panel
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A note from our sponsor - AppSignal
www.appsignal.com | 15 Sep 2026
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MidnightCommander/mc is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of mc is C.
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