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Midnight Commander keyboard shortcuts (filtered)
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First published at 2/10/2018 on
https://defkey.com/gnu-midnight-commander-shortcuts

Midnight Commander (also known as GNU Midnight Commander) is a console file
manager application with text user interface. It was started as a clone of
then-popular Norton Commander.



General
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Ctrl + R                Refresh active panel
Ctrl + X then O         Opens chown dialog for marked file
Alt + ?                 Opens search dialog
Ctrl + X then A         Open VFS list. If a ftp session times out, you can use this to free the
open vfs so you can log in again.


File panel actions
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Alt + <                 move the selection bar to the first entry in the panel
Alt + G                 move the selection bar to the first visible entry in the panel
Alt + S                 start a quick filename search in the directory listing
Alt + E                 change charset of current panel
+                       select (tag) a group of files
\                       unselect a group of files
Alt + I                 make the current directory of the current panel also the current directory
of the other panel
Alt + O                 If the currently selected file is a directory, load that directory on the
other panel and moves the selection to the next file. If the currently
selected file is not a directory, load the parent directory on the other
panel and moves the selection to the next file
Shift + Down arrow      tag file and move the selection bar to the next entry


Shell functions
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Alt + Enter             Copies selected filename in command line
Ctrl + Shift + Enter    Copies full path of selected file in the command line


Function keys
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F3                      View selected file content
F4                      Opens file in internal text editor
F6                      Moving file. Default is to another panel, but it asks first.
F9                      Opens main menu at the top of the screen

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