cheatsheets

Midnight Commander - mc

Installation

# macOS
brew install mc

Keyboard

• Control + t - Mark file / directory
• F6 - Move files
• F10 - Quit
• Control + space - Calculate directory size

Configuration

Directories:

• ~/.config/mc
• /opt/homebrew/Cellar/midnight-commander/4.8.31/etc/mc/
• /opt/homebrew/Cellar/midnight-commander/4.8.31/share/mc/

Example configuration file - ~/.config/mc/ini

[Midnight-Commander]
skin=modarin256-defbg

[Layout]
message_visible=false

[Panels]
kilobyte_si=true
show_dot_files=true

Skins

• modarin256-defg [💛] (my favourite)
• nicedark
• yadt256

Resources

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Midnight_Commander