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= FAR manager cheat sheet of keyboard shortcuts
Yuri Slobodyanyuk <admin@yurisk.info>
v1.0, 2020-11-09
:homepage: https://yurisk.info
Author: Yuri Slobodyanyuk, https://www.linkedin.com/in/yurislobodyanyuk/
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|===
|Shortcut
|Description
|*Ctrl + \*
|Change working directory to the root folder, i.e. root of the drive.
|*Ctrl + PgUp*
|Move up to the parent directory.
|*Alt + F1*
|Set the working drive for the left panel.
|*Alt + F2*
|Set the working drive for the right panel.
|*Ctrl + u*
|Swap panels (left becomes right and vice versa).
|*Ctrl + Left/Right Arrow*
|Move the separating bar between panels left/right, changing the occupied space.
|*Ctrl + Up/Down Arrow*
|Move the bottom border of the panels up/down.
|*Alt + F7*
|Open File Search dialog box
|*Alt + F12*
|Open history of the visited folders.
|*Alt + F8*
|Open history of the viewed files.
|*F9 + c + c* or *F11 + Advanced Compare*
|Compare files/directories open in Panels. Standard compare (F9 + c + c) compares by name,size and time stamp. Advanced Compare allows to choose what to compare on. The files that differ are highlighted in blue.
|*Ctrl + 1*
|Set panel view to 3-column layout showing just names.
|*Ctrl + 2*
|Return to the standard 2-column view of names only.
|*Ctrl + 3*
|Full panel view - shows name, size, date, time columns.
|*Ctrl + 5*
|Full screen view - name, size, allocated, write, created, accessed, attributes columns.
2+|_Sort displayed items_
|*Ctrl + F3*
| Sort by file/folder name.
|*Ctrl + F4*
|Sort by extension.
|*Ctrl + F5*
|Sort by modified date.
|*Ctrl + F6*
|Sort by size.
|*Ctrl + F8*
|Sort by creation time
|*Ctrl + F9*
|Sort by access time
2+|_Selecting files and folders_
|*Insert*
|Select the item under the cursor. Press again to deselect.
|*Shift + move up/down*
|Select single/multiple items. To deselect, hold Shift and move in the opposite direction.
|* (asterisk)
|Select all files/folders in the panel. Press again to invert the selection.
|COLORS fix later
| Fix me
|*F9 -> o -> l*
|Open color selection dialog box.
|*F11 + Temporary Panel*
| Create and switch to a Temporary Panel. You can copy/drag files and folders from the visible Panel to it. This allows to work on multiple items from different locations at the same time.
2+|_Filter what is shown in the Panel_
|*Ctrl + i*
a|Open Filter dialog menu. It contains all file types/extensions seen in the current folder. By moving with _Arrow Up/Down_ you can select/deselect any single or combination of multiple extensions to include or exclude in the display. Highlight the extension in question and press:
- *<space>* or *+* or *i*: Include files with such extension in the display, exclude from display anything else. Pressing the same key again clears the selection.
- *Shift + Backspace*: Clear all selections made so far.
- *x*: Exclude the selected extensions from showing, display what is left.
- *Insert*: Open a dialog menu to create Custom filter. This allows to include/exclude files by their name/extension, size, attributes, and modification date. You can use relative operators `>=, <=`. All operands in a Custom filter are ANDed. Make sure to activate this Custom filter with Space or `+` in the filter list later.
|*Enter*
|Activate the filter.
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