Synchronized navigation for comparing and merging whole directory trees.Comparing files using diff (for fast checking) or ediff (for more details and merging).Comparing directories by file names, sizes and thoroughly (using MD5 sums).file9.txt placed before file10.txt) or by date, size, extension all in ascending and descending order. Sorting directory contents by file names either alphabetically or numerically (e.g.An independent history ring for each of the panes that can be navigated forwards and backwards and also displayed in its own pane as a virtual directory.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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