Way to provide point and click access to all the power the command line has to offer and I'm the first to dive in there when the need arises (or even just for sport). I like and use both when I find it appropriate.

I'm always a little at a loss when the 'GUI vs. Something just so very nice about drag-selecting a few files and then clicking one button which performs magic on them. Yes, you could put these in a shell script or an alias (and, of course, you still can), but there's Of a few lines and put them on a button - or in a context menu. In addition, emelfm allows you to easily construct shell scripts Gui based file manager, yet at the same time mirrors the functionality of mc, including the ctrl+o shell. Any file operation imaginable may be carried out using emelfm. Prospects were looking pretty grimĪnd then Michael Clark came along and wrote emelfm.Īs a graphical file manager, emelfm has no peer. Now I wanted superb keyboard navigation and key-mapping and mousing and configurable button banks. New problem: after six years of using mc, I had added the desire for a Linux Dopus that behaved like You can do anything with mc - you just have to configure it, but it's still consoleīased and a lot of basic operations are more easily done from a gui. In the mean time, I used the venerable Midnight Commander (good ol' mc). Still others had both, but configuring them was difficult. Others were fast, but not configurable enough. I tried everything that came along, whether they claimed to be clones of Dopus or just great file managers. As you may have guessed, I'm one of the latter. Some simply want to copy, move, rename files etc. Now, a 'file manager' means different things to different people.

making Linux just a little more fun!'Īfter migrating from the Amiga to the original Slackware distribution of Linux, I spent several years searching out a replacement for Directory Opus.

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