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Midnight Commander (macOS) keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 6/16/2020 on
https://defkey.com/midnight-commander-mac-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 (macOS) has 57 shortcuts and we have listed all of them
below.



Keybar / Function keys
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F1                      Help
F2                      Menu
F3                      View
F4                      Edit
F5                      Copy
F6                      RenMov
F7                      Mkdir
F8                      Delete
F9                      PullDn
F10                     Quit


Left and right panes
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Ctrl + X then Q         Quick view
Ctrl + X then I         Info
Esc + E                 Encoding
Ctrl + R                Rescan


File menu
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F3                      View
Esc + !                 Filtered view
F4                      Edit
F5                      Copy
Ctrl + X then C         Chmod
Ctrl + X then L         Link
Ctrl + X then S         Symlink
Ctrl + X then V         Relative symlink
Ctrl + X then O         Chown
F6                      Rename / Move
F7                      Mkdir
F8                      Delete
Esc + C                 Quick cd
+                       Select group
-                       Unselect group
*                       Invert selection
F10                     Exit


Command
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F2                      User menu
Esc + ?                 Find file
Ctrl + U                Swap panels
Ctrl + O                Switch panels on / off
Ctrl + X then D         Compare directories
Ctrl + X then Ctrl + D  Compare files
Ctrl + X then !         External panelize
Ctrl + Space            Show directory sizes

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Esc + H                 Command history
Esc + Shift + E         Viewed / edited files history
Ctrl + \                Directory hotlist
Ctrl + X then A         Active VFS list
Ctrl + X then J         Background jobs
Esc + `                 Screen list


Misc
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Esc + T                 Switch view
Esc + V                 Go to top of directory in active pane
Esc + G                 Go to top of directory in active pane
Esc + J                 Go to bottom of directory in active pane
Esc + Y                 Go to previous directory
Esc + A                 Print current working directory to command line
Esc + P                 Command line previous command
Esc + C then Esc + H    Quick change directory history
Esc + C then Esc + P    Quick change directory previous entry
Ctrl + I                Switch active and inactive panels
Ctrl + J                Execute command / Open a directory
Source:                 Program menus, GitHub

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