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Command Palette

Find and run any action by name. Open it with Ctrl+Shift+P or the ≡ button at the right of the title bar.

It serves the purpose of the menu bar at the top of a conventional file manager, but occupies no screen space at all.

  • It reaches actions that have no key bound. Shortcuts mean "the common actions have keys", not "every action can be reached from the keyboard". Through the palette, every action is reachable by name regardless.
  • Everything is listed under group headings (global / window / tab / sidebar / file list).
  • The filter works from the action name, its description, or the key. "copy" finds it, and so does Ctrl+C (the + is optional).
  • The current binding is shown at the right of each row, so using the palette teaches you the shortcuts. Actions with no binding show no badge.
  • Controls: Up / Down to select, Enter to run, Esc to close. Double-clicking a row runs it too. Clicking outside the palette (on the main window) closes it without running anything.
  • Pane-dependent actions apply to whichever pane was active when the palette opened.