I’ve been using FAR Manager for 3+ years now. I would like to add ‘mini guide’ on FAR Manager with useful tips for someone who may want to start using it.
Thank you so much for writing an article about FAR Manager here on gHacks! In spite of being a console application, with ConEmu FAR supports drag’n’drop between FAR and other Windows applications, full Unicode support(displaying etc), and instead of default 16 colors its is able to use True Color mode.Īnother useful features(available with plugins): archive support(two plugins come with: arclite – for “popular” archivers like Rar/7z/zip, and MultiArc that support even less known ones like Ha/custom formats via config/etc) browse pictures inside console window(ConEmu improves it more – e.g, PictureView and Review plugins) FTP/SCP/other protocols with NetBox plugin – included in installation package, powerful built-in Editor(Colorer plugin adds syntax highlighting). It provides MSI/portable installers and link to PlugRing – a place to download FAR plugins.Īnd I think, it is worth mentioning that FAR 3.x is free and open source project.Īnd I’d like to add a little about plugins: if you install ConEmu and its plugin for FAR, FAR gets some new and very useful stuff. Why did you use “” as a landing page? There is an official FAR web-site. In fact, I think it makes it user-friendly for people who haven't tried the program yet, or are unfamiliar with command line switches and commands. When you right-click inside the program's window, you will see your regular context-menu, which has all the options from your Windows' File Explorer. While it is primarily optimized for keyboard shortcuts, FAR Manager does offer full support for the mouse, which you can use for scrolling, left-click etc. You can change the interface options, colors, elements, set to open that you want to hide/display, basically anything you want to make the program look and function the way you want it to be. Or, right-click near the top of the window, to open the menu-bar with the options displayed in expanded view. To access the program's Settings, press F9 and use the keyboard to navigate to the Options that appear at the top of the screen. The biggest highlight of the program, is perhaps the fact that it is highly customizable even without plugins. Every thing you need from spell check, editor and file management enhancements, networking and security tools, macro plugins, etc., are available from the Plugin page. I wanted to side-step the topic, FAR Manager plugins, because there are "FAR" too many for me to suggest. You can add support for more file types by using Plugins. Hit F6 to edit the document, as if you were using a command line Notepad. To access it, use the F3 key, and it should open the text in the same window.
While the application does support opening files in your default program choice for that format, it does have a built-in File viewer and Editor.
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