Midday Commander is a dual-panel terminal file manager inspired by Midnight Commander. It provides the familiar orthodox file management interface, with two independently navigable panels and keyboard shortcuts for common operations.
The application combines traditional file management with facilities for navigating remote systems, browsing archives, and locating files through fuzzy searching. Users can work with local directories and remote SSH servers from the same terminal interface.
Midday Commander also supports multiple tabs, allowing separate pairs of panels to remain available within one session. This makes it possible to organise different file management tasks without opening additional terminal windows.
The interface offers configurable keyboard shortcuts, colour themes, bookmarks, and integration with external editors and viewers. Command execution and shell access are also available without leaving the file manager.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Dual-panel file browsing with independent navigation and selection.
- Multiple tabs for working with separate pairs of file panels.
- SSH/SFTP support for accessing remote servers from either panel.
- Browse archives as virtual directories, including ZIP, TAR, 7z, RAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, and LZ4 formats.
- Recursive fuzzy file searching with real-time matching.
- Quick searching within the current directory by typing filenames.
- Bookmarks for navigating to frequently used directories.
- File operations including copying, moving, deleting, renaming, and creating directories, with confirmation dialogs.
- Multiple file selection for performing batch operations.
- Customisable keyboard shortcuts through a TOML configuration file.
- Command and directory path autocompletion with context-sensitive suggestions.
- Quick view mode for previewing the selected file in the opposite panel.
- Integration with external text editors and pagers through the EDITOR and PAGER environment variables.
- Configurable file execution behaviour.
- Shell access in the currently selected directory.
- Copy selected file paths to the clipboard, with a choice of path formats.
- Live theme picker with previews of available colour themes.
- Mouse support for interacting with panels and menus.
- Return the active directory path on exit for integration with shell navigation functions.
- Toggle hidden files and navigate directly to specified directories.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/kooler/MiddayCommander
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Developer: Konstantin Goncharuk
License: MIT License
Midday Commander is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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