For many years I’ve been using Far Manager which is really great commander for Windows.
It has many useful plugins like SCP/SFTP, Network Browser, reasonably good editor with Colorer, PocketPC connection etc.
On the downside FAR editor has a couple of problems which bothered me a lot:
– Internal editor which is quite powerful, sometimes starts using Windows line endings (CRLF) and because I am working in a mixed environment I had to run the dos2unix utility on the routine basis to convert all the files into the UNIX format.
– FAR has a mysterious feature of changing file permissions or file sharing by adding user “None” with special permissions which were preventing files from to be executed. I.e. you’ve download ZIP file using FAR’s FTP browser, unpack it, try to run EXE file, Windows says:
. So you have to Explorer->Security settings and kill this None user.
After my recent upgrade from XP to Vista these problems became even worse.
So, I tried to start using the Midnight Commander, which I’ve been using for ages in Unix environment.
But under Cygwin/Vista it behaves quite differently.
Problems I’ve met so far are:
– no mouse support under Vista.
I’ve even tried to use Cygwin’s SSH port with PuTTY and then run MC – no way to have mouse working in Cygwin window.
– I am unable to browse/open any .zip files.
MC says:
.
What the heck? Somehow it opens the TAR files, but only by F4(Edit) command. If you try to open TAR file it writes similar bullshit about running a binary file.
-And the last thing which drives me mad – I am unable to save some of the MC’s config files, such as .mc/bindings. Every time it accesses it, it sets up the sharing, adding this infamous user None with special permissions and this file becomes read-only for MC.
PS While writing this post, I have found that you can get a Midnight Commander’s subshell working under Cygwin – you have to explicitly enable the subshell support via parameter (even if it is a default):