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

« on: August 13, 2025, 07:33:51 »

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)

Great, Mathias!  I learned how to create these:

Code: [Select]

MC.Explorer.Sort COLNAME="Ext"
MC.Explorer.Sort COLNAME="Name"

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

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

« 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

« 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!

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

« on: August 10, 2025, 04:15:10 »

Hi, I've been loving MC. But I need to be able to do some things in order to be able to switch from my current file manager.
One of them is to be able to find the reference, the list to the internal command codes, since I cannot find the associated command in the keyboard shortcuts configuration window to, for instance, change the keyboard shortcuts to sort files by columns, like described in this part of the docs in the attached image.

Nor can I find how to change the keyboard shortcut to focus on the command bar at the top. I'm used to Ctrl+L, but that opens the Application Log.

Any insights?