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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: File extension switch on startup

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 12, 2025, 14:14:46 »

You can enter a "view filter" in the filterbox at the bottom of the Explorer Panel (where total num of files and total selections are shown )
You can quick go to the filterbox with Ctrl+F and then enter '.exe' and the view will be filtered to only show files matching .exe

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / File extension switch on startup

« Last post by Maxjonz on August 12, 2025, 13:48:32 »

I am a new user to this system and find it much better than Windows explorer which I have been using for 30+ years.   I have searched for a method of displaying only files with a certain extension (for instance  *.exe) when opening MultiCommander but have had no success.    Does anyone have any idea how to achieve this (apart from typing in the extension when MC is on screen).       

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy: rename and append greyed out

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 12, 2025, 13:25:29 »

No there is no setting for that.
I think it is because it is a move on same disk it already entered into a rename operation so data is never copied. so then it cant append

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Shaping the Future of MultiCommander - Your Feedback on Development Priorities

« Last post by dech on August 12, 2025, 12:38:57 »

Hi,
I just have too many tabs opened and it would be very handy to not them all squeeze into 1 line because then i cant read the name of tab, but let them go free into second line or 3rd line..and so on ...so I can read the name of the tabs

just like in other commanders

thank you
https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,5007.0.html

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: We could have a better Keyboard Customization dialog.

« Last post by animanta on August 12, 2025, 06:29:13 »

Its planned to redo how that entire dialog works. But the entire keyboard customization system is also planned to be rewritten, and it will not happen before that is done.

Good to know, Mathias! Thanks!

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy: rename and append greyed out

« Last post by Fufurro on August 12, 2025, 00:02:50 »

Bump

The previous message might have been lost in summertime :-)

As mentioned, the behaviour appears when moving files on the same partition (not a copy, a move). Anything I should check or it is something that you might look into at some point?
Thanks!!

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: We could have a better Keyboard Customization dialog.

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 11, 2025, 11:45:49 »

Its planned to redo how that entire dialog works. But the entire keyboard customization system is also planned to be rewritten, and it will not happen before that is done.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Command reference and how to change keyboard shortcuts

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 11, 2025, 11:44:16 »

Yes some are fixed and currenty can't be changed (current techinical reason).. The are reserved in customization so that you are not overriding them. causing conflicts.

But you can add new command that does it using User Defined Commands and custom Commands..
https://multicommander.com/Docs/customcommands_list#mc.explorer.sort
(Sort by column (num) or by column name)

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / We could have a better Keyboard Customization dialog.

« Last post by animanta on August 11, 2025, 05:36:29 »

We could have a better Keyboard Customization dialog.

The problems:

• The commands are not easy to find. They're not displayed in alphabetical order and new users are not automatically drawn to know the group a particular command is fit in, such as Multi Commander (Core) or Explorer Panel. We have to select between four combinations of options in the two dropdowns until we find the command.
• The commands are not named exactly how they work. For example, "Copy current item's full path to clipboard" is named "Files/Folders path and name", which is not intuitive, since there is no mention to the verb (copy).
• There is no search or filter box. This could expedite dramatically.

The proposed solutions:

• 1. Order the commands alphabetically and allow the user to sort them by click on the top of the columns "Command" and "Shortcut key".
• Name the commands properly and consider adding an "all" option under the "module" drop-down menu so that all options would be in the same list.
• Add a filter box so that we can search the command or the keyboard shortcut. 3.1 Consider having plain text (json) settings for the keyboard shortcuts, just like Sublime Text or Visual Studio Code.

P.s. I can't even find the item "Customize Keyboard setup" in the list so I can set a keyboard shortcut to open this dialog itself.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Command reference and how to change keyboard shortcuts

« Last post by animanta on August 10, 2025, 20:07:19 »

You mean you want to move input focus to the command line field ? so you can type command into that ?

Mathias, thank you for personally showing up and congratulations for your work! I really don't know how I missed that.

you can also configure so it automatically switch to that if you start tying . with or without holding some modifier key like ctrl/alt.. that is done in explorer panel settings

Nice too! That one ChatGPT and Gemini got it right; I regret it deeply these two models are not quite acquainted with MC just yet.

And holding shift while export list to file in customized key. it will include the internal commands code for the commands.

Duly noted! We could have these in a section of a documentation, what do you think?

Change key for sorting is currently not customizable.. But you can create a Custom Command what that calls MC.Explorer.Sort and then assign that command to the hotkey you want

Ahh, that's sad. Especially because these are the ones I meant to change:

[L]  [Reserved].................................................Ctrl+F1              - ExplorerPanel.0
[L]  [Reserved].................................................Ctrl+F2              - ExplorerPanel.0
[L]  [Reserved].................................................Ctrl+F3              - ExplorerPanel.0
[L]  [Reserved].................................................Ctrl+F4              - ExplorerPanel.0
[L]  [Reserved].................................................Ctrl+F5              - ExplorerPanel.0

I'll read more of the Docs so I can learn more about custom commands. But can you just advance whether it is currently possible to craft custom commands to "sort by name", "sort by extension", "sort by file size" and "sort by modification date"?

And thanks!