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Shifting between Midnight Commander and Command LineĪs useful as Midnight Commander is, it’s not going to replicate everything you need to do on the command line. However, if you still must run Midnight Commander with sudo, you should at least create a separate theme that makes it clear that you’re running Midnight Commander as sudo by applying a theme.

Running sudo mc is dangerous as you can easily render your system inoperable by editing or delete files that you don’t mean to, with no confirmation required.

That’s generally a problem if you are working inside your home directory.

Creating a folder in Midnight Commander while running as sudo means that the folder belongs to the root user.

Why is this scenario a bad thing? There are two main reasons: Any actions you perform as sudo are done as the root user. If you really wanted to change that file you would need sudo rights.Īlthough you can modify any file on your system with sudo rights, that doesn’t mean you should. If you had tried to save that file after editing, you would actually find that you can’t: it’s protected. In the last section, you edited a file located at /etc/nf. If you end up editing or changing protected files, you need to run the text editor as an administrator or what Linux calls as sudo.

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At its core though, the basics work just like Windows Notepad. Midnight Commander offers many other features only seen on more advanced editors such as regex text replacement or changing file encoding. You can see a visual representation of this steps below.

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Check out the next section to learn how to handle this.

Click on Save or press F2 to save the file.

Click Edit to bring up the text editor.

Navigate to the /etc folder and click on the nf file.

(representing the parent folder) twice which should leave you at the root folder.

In Midnight Commander, navigate out of your home folder by clicking on the.

Open up Midnight Commander by typing mc.

Open up a terminal on your OpenSUSE Linux machine or click on the Start menu.

Let’s see if you can navigate to it and change it to use the British keyboard. The good news is that Midnight Commander has a built-in, syntax aware text editor.Īs an example, edit a text file take the nf text file, for example. There are dozens of text editors designed to work entirely within the command line. It is assumed in Linux that if you need to edit a text file, you are going to be doing it remotely: over the command line (of course). Using the Text EditorĪnother feature heavily used in Linux (yet unheard of in Windows) is the command-line text editor. You can find the keyboard shortcuts to the integrated text editor here.

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You can find the full shortcut list here (in typical midnight commander 1990’s style). You can look for articles that covers some of its more advanced features, as well as keyboard shortcuts. You can do the essentials with a mouse, but it’s worth learning some of the more useful keyboard shortcuts over time. Midnight commander, just like other text user interface (TUI) tools, is keyboard-focused. Despite the retro look, it’s an extremely powerful tool for navigating Linux on the command line. It also has a ton of other useful utilities hidden beneath the surface. How freaking cool is that?! This elevates it from a handy utility, to being an invaluable tool for navigating the command line. A Demonstration of the Mouse Support in Midnight Commander