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Midnight Commander Keyboard Shortcuts
GeneralCtrl+l | Refresh display | Alt+. | Toggle hidden files display | Alt+, | Toggle horizontal/vertical split | Alt+$ | Show screen selector | Alt+;/: | Switch to previous/next screen |
Selected ItemsShift+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.
| | Active PanelInsert or Ctrl+t | Tag/untag focused item | + | Tag items by pattern | - | 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 | Toggle other panel to information mode | Ctrl+x, q | Toggle other panel to quick view mode | Alt+c | Change directory popup | Alt+i | Change other panel to the same directory | Alt+o | Change other panel to the selected directory (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+ N/E/S/M | Sort by Name/Ext/Size/ModTime | Alt+! | Filtered view |
| | Command LineAlt+h | Open command history | Alt+p/n | Select previous/next hisotry 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.
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