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by bilekas 1366 days ago
Vim.. I do like VSCode to be fair but I find after so many years nothing has been able to compete for me. I'm not particularly stubborn either with trying new things, but the learning curve versus the reward just don't trump Vim still..

Edit - Midnight Commander - Although i did upgrade to the SpeedCommander.

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> Edit - Midnight Commander - Although i did upgrade to the SpeedCommander.

AFAIR MC is for Unices only, whereas SC is for Windows. Out of curiosity: why did you decide to use a commercial product when open alternatives are available, such as FAR?

Well I went from MC in the old days that was what I got used to and so when moving to Windows enviornments I found TotalCommander - But after a few years it was a little bit annoying having to extend it myself for things like sftp support, while looking for a better solution I came across SpeedCommander and haven't looked since..

FAR is new to me though - I'll check it out though ! Thanks, might be my new favorite after all !

If it was on DOS, may be you are referencing to Norton Commander ?
Nah, this was on my centos days, my old man was working with them so I used to always be playing with linux distros, used to get the odd linux magazines that would come with a fedora release and the odd redHat IIRC. They would have a whole section on how to install them too.. Slackware was something of a challenge for me as a kid..

If I'm not mistaken though NC was the predecessor of MC!