This shell also checks your default text editor, and if it is emacs or vim, it will adopt that
editor??™s key bindings (a.k.a. keyboard shortcuts) in addition to its own.
Managing Files with Midnight Commander
Whatever shell you choose for your everyday use, you may find the Midnight Commander
a handy tool for moving files around. Suppose you don??™t need to load a full GUI desktop to
move a batch of files, but even all the wildcards and completion shortcuts offered by your
shell won??™t let you easily copy a set of files from different directories into one other directory.
You need something else??”something that will display two directories side by side and
let you drag or move things from one place to another. You need Midnight Commander!
To open Midnight Commander, type mc at the shell prompt. Figure 5.1 shows the initial
default display of your home directory on both sides of the screen. Use the arrow keys to
navigate in the left pane. Use the Tab key to move from one side to the other, and then
move around. Select a file or folder and press Enter to open that item.
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