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Midnight Commander Keyboard Shortcuts
General
Ctrl+l |
Refresh display |
Alt+. |
Toggle hidden files display |
Alt+, |
Toggle horizontal/vertical split |
Alt+` |
Show screen selector |
Alt+;/' |
Switch to previous/next screen |
Selected Items
Shift+F5 |
Copy to current directory |
Shift+F6 |
Rename selected item |
Ctrl+x, c |
chmod dialog |
Ctrl+x, o |
chown dialog |
Ctrl+x, v |
Relative symlink dialog |
Ctrl+x, s |
Absolute symlink dialog |
Ctrl+x, l |
Hardlink dialog |
Ctrl+x, Ctrl+d |
File diff active/inactive panel selection |
Ctrl+x, d |
Directory diff active/inactive panel selection |
Selected items are the tagged items or the highlighted item. Common actions mapped to F-keys are listed at the bottom of the screen.
Notes
- A capital in a shortcut indicates you need to hold Shift.
- The basic panel navigation shortcuts are not included.
- The shortcuts in bold are non-default (see mc.keymap panel). |
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Active Panel
Alt+j/k/l |
Move cursor to top/center/bottom of view |
Insert / Ctrl+t
Shift+/ |
Tag/untag focused item and move down/up |
+/- |
Tag/untag items by pattern |
* |
Invert tagging of items |
Alt+s |
Search/jump to by pattern |
Alt+? |
Open search dialog |
Alt+t |
Cycle panel view mode |
Ctrl+x, i/q |
Toggle other panel to info/quick view mode |
Alt+c |
Change directory popup |
Alt+i |
Change other panel to the same directory |
Alt+o/L |
Change other panel to the selected directory/link target (or the parent directory if a file is selected + select next item) |
Alt+H |
Directory history |
Alt+y/u |
CD to previous/next directory in the history |
F12 |
Open directory hotlist |
Ctrl+x, h |
Add current directory to hotlist |
Ctrl+space |
Calculate selected item sizes (.. calculates all item sizes) |
Ctrl+r |
Refresh listing |
Ctrl+u |
Swap panels |
Alt+P |
Open Sort dialog |
Alt+R |
Reverse sort |
Alt+N/E/S/M |
Sort by Name/Ext/Size/ModTime
(repeating shortcut reverses sort) |
Ctrl+f |
Filter (files only) |
Alt+! |
Filtered view |
Shift+/ |
Scroll left/right |
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Command Line
Alt+h |
Open command history |
Alt+p/n |
Select previous/next history entry |
Shift+Tab |
Complete item name |
Ctrl+a/e |
Jump to start/end of line |
Ctrl+k |
Clear to end of line |
Alt+/ |
Jump to start of previous/next word |
Alt+a/A |
Paste active/inactive panel directory path |
Alt+Enter |
Paste active panel selected item name |
Ctrl+x, t |
Paste names of tagged files in active panel |
Ctrl+a followed by Ctrl+k clears the full input line
Cmd line variables (active/inactive panel)
%d / %D |
directory path |
%s / %S |
selected (focused) item path |
%f / %F |
selected item name |
%b / %B |
selected item base name |
%x / %X |
selected item extension |
%t / %T |
tagged item name(s) |
%% |
literal % character |
The current directory in the command line always matches the active panel's directory.
Custom mc.keymap entries
[filemanager]
HotList = f12
[panel]
BottomOnScreen = alt-l
MiddleOnScreen = alt-k
TopOnScreen = alt-j
PanelOtherCdLink = alt-shift-l
Sort = alt-shift-p
SortReverse = alt-shift-r
SortByName = alt-shift-n
SortByExt = alt-shift-e
SortBySize = alt-shift-s
SortByMTime = alt-shift-m
ScrollLeft = shift-left
ScrollRight = shift-right
Filter = ctrl-f
ScreenNext = alt-apostrophe
ScreenPrev = alt-semicolon
[input]
Complete = shift-tab
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