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Commander Keyboard Shortcuts
- Common Panel Commands
- Navigation
- File Selection
- File Management
- Tab Management
- Service Commands
- File Panels
- Custom
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Common Panel Commands
- Tab – Change active panel
Navigation
- Ctrl+R/F5 – Re-read panel
- Backspace or Alt+Up – Open parent directory
- Ctrl+\ – Open root directory
- Ctrl+H – Open home directory
- Alt+Left – Go back
- Alt+Right – Go forward
- Alt+F1 – Open path change menu for left panel
- Alt+F2 – Open path change menu for right panel
- Ctrl+B – Bookmark current directory
- Ctrl+O, Ctrl+L, Alt+D – Display bookmark window
- Ctrl+Alt+T – Toggle tree panel
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File Selection
- Ins – Select/deselect file
- Num+ – Select group
- Num- – Deselect group
- Num* – Invert selection
- Ctrl+A – Select all files
- Shift+Ctrl+L – Deselect all files
- Shift+Ctrl+S – Restore selection
File Management
- F2 – Rename focused file
- F4 – Edit focused file
- Shift+F4 – Edit (create) new file
- Ctrl+Alt+F4 – Edit focused file in an internal editor
- F5/Ctrl+K – Download (when remote panel is active), Upload (when local panel is active) selected files, Copy (when both panels are local)
- Shift+F5 – Duplicate selected files (remote panel only)
- F6 – Download (when remote panel is active), Upload (when local panel is active) selected files and delete original, Move (when both panels are local)
- Shift+F5 – Duplicate selected files (remote panel only)
- Shift+F6 – Move/rename selected files (remote panel only)
- Alt+F6 – Add/edit link
- F7 – Create new folder
- F8, Del – Delete selected files
- Shift+Del – Delete selected files (alternative)
- F9, Alt+Enter – Change properties of selected files
- Shift+Alt+Enter – Calculate sizes of selected directories
- Ctrl+C – Copy the selected files to the clipboard
- Ctrl+V – Paste files, open path from clipboard, open session URL from clipboard
Tab Management
- Shift+Ctrl+D, Ctrl+W – Close active tab
- Ctrl+T – Open a new tab
- Ctrl+N – Open a new remote tab/session
- Shift+Ctrl+N – Open a new local tab
- Shift+Ctrl+R – Reconnect session
- Ctrl+Tab, Shift+Ctrl+Tab – Cycle opened tabs
- Alt+1, Alt+2 … Alt+9, Alt+0 – Switch to other opened tab
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Service Commands
- Ctrl+Alt+B – Toggle synchronized browsing
- Shift+F2 – Compare files in panels
- Ctrl+P – Open current session in PuTTY
- Ctrl+Alt+P – Open Preferences dialog
- Shift+Ctrl+Q – Process queue
- Ctrl+Alt+R – Toggle automatical refresh of remote directory after operation
- Ctrl+S – Synchronize directories
- Ctrl+U – Keep remote directory up to date
- Shift+Ctrl+T – Open terminal window
- F10, Alt+F4 – Quit
- Alt+F7/F3 – Find file
- Esc – Cancels reading of remote directory
File Panels
- Ctrl+F3 – Sort files in the active panel by name
- Ctrl+F4 – Sort files in the active panel by extension
- Ctrl+F5 – Sort files in the active panel by modification time
- Ctrl+F6 – Sort files in the active panel by size
- Ctrl+F7 – Sort files in the active panel by attributes/permissions
- Ctrl+F8 – Sort files in the active panel by owner (remote panel only)
- Ctrl+F9 – Sort files in the active panel by group (remote panel only)
- Ctrl+Enter – Insert names of selected files to command line
- Shift+Ctrl+C – Copy names of selected files to the clipboard
- Ctrl+Alt+C – Copy names of selected files including paths to the clipboard
- Ctrl+[ – Copy current local path to the clipboard
- Ctrl+] – Copy current remote path to the clipboard
- Ctrl+Alt+H – Toggle hidden and system files displaying
- Ctrl+Alt+F – Filter files
- Ctrl+Alt+E – Open current directory in Windows File Explorer (local panel only)
- Shift+Ctrl+M – Show/focus command line
- Ctrl+Q – Focus queue view (when visible)
- Ctrl+F – Open incremental search panel (This feature is available only in the latest beta release.)
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Custom
You can associate custom keyboard shorcuts with some features.