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Commander Keyboard Shortcuts
- Common Panel Commands
- Navigation
- File Selection
- File Management
- Session 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+R - 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) or Upload (when local panel is active) selected files
- Shift+F5 - Duplicate selected files (remote panel only)
- F6 - Download (when remote panel is active) or Upload (when local panel is active) selected files and delete original
- 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
- Ctrl+V - Paste files, opens path from clipboard, opens session URL from clipboard
Session Management
- Shift+Ctrl+D, Ctrl+W - Close active session
- Ctrl+N - Open a new session
- Ctrl+Tab, Shift+Ctrl+Tab - Cycle opened sessions
- Alt+1, Alt+2 … - Switch to other opened session
Service Commands
- Ctrl+Alt+B - Toggle synchronized browsing
- Ctrl+C - 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
- Ctrl+T - Open terminal window
- F10, Alt+F4 - Quit
- Alt+F7/F3 - Find file
- Esc - Cancels reading of remote directory
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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 Explorer (local panel only)
- Shift+Ctrl+N - Show/focus command line
- Ctrl+Q - Focus queue view (when visible)
Custom
You can associate custom keyboard shorcuts with some features.