List of most recently visited files, also fully functional as a virtual directory.Virtual directories with the results of “locate”, “find”, “grep” commands (or whatever other command that produces a list of files/directories) that can be used as regular panes with copying, removing, renaming, following….

Transparent navigation inside compressed files/archives: zip, tar, tgz, rar, jar, war, ear, sar, … (using AVFS).It is implemented as an independent major mode derived from Dired, what allows to have a rich feature set (key bindings, colors, functions, killing automatically unused buffers, etc.) without interfering with normal Dired stuff.So, faithful to the tradition established by mc.el and ec.el, I decided to write the Sunrise Commander.Īfter several months of growing it up (good programs seem to grow by themselves) I’ve managed to put together most of the functionality I wanted that was not there before: But it lacked support for so many of the usage patterns MC got me accustomed to through all these years… it was a real pity. I realized early the power of Dired (learned quite fast several nifty tricks on it), and I think the decision made by the authors of mc.el of basing their file manager on Dired was a wise one. It was no joy, so after that I tried using nc.el and mc.el, but both scripts were far away from what I was looking for.

As a long time user of the Midnight Commander on Linux (and, long before that, of Norton Commander and Norton Navigator on DOS), one of the first things I tried after moving to Emacs was running MC in term-mode. (For those who may not know, OFM stands for “Orthodox File Manager” - it’s the kind of interface made popular by the Norton and Midnight Commanders.) I’ve been working lately on a new OFM for GNU Emacs. See also the Tips and Tricks page and Sunrise Commander For Noobs

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