===================================== Midnight Commander keyboard shortcuts ===================================== 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. Midnight Commander has 52 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below. General ------- Ctrl + R Refresh active panel Ctrl + X then C Opens chmod dialog for marked file 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 ------------------ Up arrow move the selection bar to the previous entry in the panel Down arrow move the selection bar to the next entry in the panel Left arrow move the selection bar to the left Right arrow move the selection bar to the right Page Up move the selection bar one page up Alt + V move the selection bar one page up Page Down move the selection bar one page down Alt + P move the selection bar one page down Home move the selection bar to the first entry in the panel A then 1 move the selection bar to the first entry in the panel Alt + < move the selection bar to the first entry in the panel End move the selection bar to the last entry in the panel C then 1 move the selection bar to the last entry in the panel Alt + > move the selection bar to the last entry in the panel Alt + G move the selection bar to the first visible entry in the panel Alt + R move the selection bar to the middle visible entry in the panel Alt + J move the selection bar to the last visible entry in the panel Alt + S start a quick filename search in the directory listing Alt + E change charset of current panel Alt + H show the directory history Alt + U move to the next directory in the history Alt + Y move to the previous directory in the history + select (tag) a group of files \ unselect a group of files Alt + * invert selection on the current panel 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 Alt + L If the currently selected file is a link to the directory, load that directory on the other panel and moves the selection to the next file Ctrl + Page Down move to the child directory Ctrl + Page Up move to the parent directory Insert tag or untag files. To untag files, just retag a tagged file Ctrl + T tag or untag files. To untag files, just retag a tagged file Shift + Down arrow tag file and move the selection bar to the next entry Shift + Up arrow tag file and move the selection bar to the previous entry Shell functions --------------- Alt + Enter Copies selected filename in command line Ctrl + Shift + Enter Copies full path of selected file in the command line Alt + H Shows command line history Function keys ------------- F1 Help F2 Opens user menu F3 View selected file content F4 Opens file in internal text editor F5 Copies selected file. Default is to another panel, but it asks first. F6 Moving file. Default is to another panel, but it asks first. F7 Make directory F8 Delete file or directory F9 Opens main menu at the top of the screen F10 Ends current action; editor, viewer, dialog window or ends mc program Last modified on(UTC): Thursday, January 23, 2020 Defkey © All rights reserved.