Editing preference files

[Nicolas]

Most of the advanced configuration options offered by muCommander require you to edit preference files, which are all stored in a preference folder.

On most versions of muCommander, you'll find this folder in:
- Mac OS X: ~/Library/Preferences/muCommander/ (eg: /Users/smith/Library/Preferences/muCommander)
- Other systems: ~/.mucommander/ (eg: C:\Documents and Settings\smith\.mucommander\)

If you're not sure what your home (~) directory is, just type ~ in muCommander's location bar. You might not know, but muCommander does.

If you're using the portable version, you'll find your preferences folder as a .mucommander subfolder of the place where you installed muCommander.

When closing, muCommander will save its configuration. The consequence of that is that if you modify your preferences while muCommander is still running, they will get overwritten. Make sure you close it before you start working.

Additionally, if you're going to edit your preference files using software like Emacs that saves backup files in filename~, it's crucial that you delete these before restarting muCommander. It has a built-in safety feature used to prevent your preferences from being lost when the system crashes, and if it finds any file ending with ~ that looks like a better version of a given preference file, it will use that rather than the normal one.

[NEI]

Congrats to this great app, but I have some minor problem: How can I assign the CMD-Key in the MAC OSX version? I tried cmd, CMD ,command, but nothing works.
Btw, Quick-Look would be nice for muCommander on OSX...

[starpause]

i'm also wondering how to use the 'command' key on OSX in the action_keymap.xml

[stefek99]

- Other systems: ~/.mucommander/ (eg: C:\Documents and Settings\smith\.mucommander\)

How do I change preferences?

Ideally I would like to use Sublime as a F4 editor as described here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=416&start=15

Thanks for help as I cannot find preferences (see the attached image)

[Nicolas]

You're not looking in the right location:

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/Library/Preferences

is not the same thing as

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~/Library/Preferences

.
The ~ is a Unix convention that means "the current user's home directory". So if, for example, your user name is stefek99, you should look in

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/home/stefek99/Library/Preferences

Nicolas

[stefek99]

Silly me.

Actually I have realized this no my work machine and applied it to my home computer

Thanks anyway!

[kiethmenker]

thanks for sharing...