Commander Keyboard Shortcuts

Use Commander from the keyboard for the fastest workflow. The function-key bar keeps the most common actions visible, while pane, tab, search and command-line shortcuts cover daily file work.

These are the shipped defaults. Settings → Shortcuts rebinds any keyboard command: it lists every one with its current keys, warns when a combination is already taken or is owned by the menu bar, and applies changes immediately — this reference, the button-bar captions, the tooltips and the native menus all follow your bindings. Only the commands you change are stored, so new defaults in later releases still reach you. Cursor movement, selection, quicksearch typing and the Escape and Backspace keys are not rebindable: they are how the panes navigate rather than commands.

On macOS, use Command (⌘) in place of Ctrl for menu commands. A few actions map differently on macOS: Filter is ⌘F, hidden files toggle with ⌘⇧. (period), and Properties is ⌘I. Where macOS reserves ⌘ for itself, Commander keeps Control — Quick View is ⌃Q and Multi-rename is ⌃M.

Undo File Operation also answers to Ctrl+Z (⌘Z) whenever the platform’s text-editing Undo has not claimed the key first, which is why the menu advertises Alt+Backspace. On macOS, ⌃Z edits the file comment; elsewhere the file comment editor lives on the Files menu.

Terminal panel

These apply only while the integrated terminal has focus, so they never compete with the pane shortcuts. Off macOS they take the Shift spelling every Linux terminal ships, because Ctrl+C belongs to the program that is running.

On macOS these are ⌘T, ⌘W, ⌘C and ⌘V, since no shell binds the Command key.

Built-in editor

The editor opened with F4 has its own shortcuts, shown on the native Editor menus.