Cosa funziona

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• File operations: F5 copy, F6 move/rename, F7 create directory, F8 delete — on the selection or on the item under the cursor, with the destination prefilled from the passive panel. Recursive trees, conflict dialogs (overwrite / all / skip / skip all / cancel), error decision points (retry / skip / skip all / cancel), a progress overlay with a per-file and a total bar, Esc to cancel, and both panels refreshed afterwards. A same-filesystem move is a rename, not a copy. A copy is written to name.fcmd-part and renamed only when complete, so an interrupted operation never leaves a file that looks finished. F8 hands what you chose to the system's own wastebasket — the one your desktop's file manager shows — and Shift+Del deletes outright. Checksums (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256) are written in the format sha256sum reads, and a list can be checked back against the files beside it. Ctrl+Shift+Y synchronises two directories through a table you can edit before anything is written.
• Panels: Tab / Ctrl+U, arrows / PgUp / PgDn / Home / End / Enter / Ctrl+PgUp / Backspace / Ctrl+\ with history (Alt+←/→), Ins and + / - / * selection by mask, Ctrl+F3..F11 sorting — all nine of FAR's keys, down to the description and the owner — with a chain of tie-breakers, Shift+F11 sort groups, Ctrl+1..0 view modes, all ten of FAR's, Ctrl+H hidden files, Ctrl+Shift+I live filter, quick search by typing (Alt+<letter>), Space for a recursive directory size, Ctrl+= to sync the other panel, Ctrl with the arrows to reshape the two panels, and the panels FAR has: quick view (Ctrl+Q), info (Ctrl+L), tree (Ctrl+T). A panel holds more than one directory at a time: Ctrl+Alt+T opens a tab, Ctrl+Alt+N and Ctrl+Alt+P step along the row, Ctrl+Alt+M hands one to the other panel, Ctrl+Alt+K locks one to its directory, and the row comes back with its names between sessions. Folders are kept to hand on ten digits — Ctrl+Shift+0..9 to set one, Alt+0..9 to go — with Ctrl+D for the whole named hotlist. A directory's own descript.ion is read, shown (Ctrl+6, Ctrl+7) and written (Ctrl+Z), and a description follows its file through a copy, a move, a rename and a delete.
• Panels that are not directories: Alt+F1 and Alt+F2 open the change-drive dialog — everything mounted, with what each volume is, what it is called and what is left on it — and under it the things that are not filesystems: the stored connections, the object stores, the processes (F3 on one is its card: command line, memory, threads, parent, the user it runs as), the sockets that are listening or connected with the process behind each one, the programs installed on the machine (F3 for the card, and its uninstall command put on the command line for you to read before you run it), and a temporary panel of files gathered by hand from anywhere.
• Comparison: the two panels side by side by name, size and time, or by what is actually in the files — with "the same but for the line endings", a first-N-kilobyte fragment for big files, and the whole thing recursive through the subdirectories, the differences coming back as a panel of marked rows rather than a dialog to dismiss. Duplicates in a tree are found by content, so two names that are one file show up however differently they are named.
• Viewer (F3): text, dump and hex on files of any size — position is a byte offset, so opening a 40 GB log costs one read and End costs one seek. Encoding detected (UTF-8, UTF-16 with or without a BOM, CP1252, CP437) and switchable with F8; F2 cycles no-wrap / character / word wrap; F4 between text and hex; F7 opens one search dialog that asks the whole question — text, hex or a regular expression, case, whole words, forwards or backwards. A structure pane (F11) for binaries, with sections and symbols, and F5 to read the bytes as instructions.
• Editor (F4): undo over the session, column blocks, search and replace, an atomic save, and syntax colouring for Rust, C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, shell, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, Markdown, JSON, TOML, YAML, INI, Make, Dockerfile, Lua and Perl. On a binary it is a hex editor instead, with a patch list and an assembler.
• Archives: zip, 7z and the tar family (plain, gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd), all with pure-Rust decoders — nothing shells out, and no 7z.dll. Enter opens one as a panel, F3 reads an entry, F5 copies out through the same job engine as any other copy.
• Servers and buckets: SFTP, FTP, FTPS and WebDAV panels and transfers, a session editor, host-key checking against known_hosts, port forwarding, and s3:// panels with the credentials read from the environment or ~/.aws/credentials — never written into the configuration file.
• The program itself: six themes, seven interface languages switchable while it runs, two keymap profiles (FAR and mc) and your own on top, macros, the screens list (F12), plugin commands (F11), a help system whose key pages are generated from the keymap in force, and a manual page.

Non-interactive modes, for CI and for scripts:

fcmd --list-themes      # built-in and external themes, with where each came from
fcmd --list-commands    # the command vocabulary every key, menu and plugin binds to
fcmd --list-languages   # en it de fr es ru zh
fcmd --check-keymap     # validate a keymap and print the resolved bindings
fcmd --dump-config      # the effective configuration
fcmd --export-theme tron >> ~/.config/fcmd.toml   # a ready-to-paste [[theme]] block
fcmd --paths            # where the config file, the state file and plugins/ are
fcmd --list-plugins     # what is in the plugins directory