Press F9 to open the top menu bar. Five menus:
Left, Files, Commands, Options, Right.
Left / Right Move between menu items
Enter / Down Open the dropdown
Escape Close the menu bar
Home / End Jump to first / last menu item
Hotkey letter Open matching menu (e.g. L)
Up / Down Move between items
Left / Right Switch to adjacent menu
Enter Activate the selected item
Escape Close dropdown (return to bar)
Home / End Jump to first / last item
Hotkey letter Activate matching item
Control the corresponding pane's display and sorting:
Brief Ctrl+1 1-column file list
Medium Ctrl+2 2-column file list
Full Ctrl+3 3-column file list
Sort modes Ctrl+F12 Open Sort Modes popup
Show dotfiles Ctrl+H Toggle hidden files
Re-read Ctrl+R Refresh directory listing
Change drive Alt+F1/F2 Open Change Drive popup
Open from the Left/Right menu or press Ctrl+F12.
Name Ctrl+F3 Alphabetical by name
Extension Ctrl+F4 By file extension
Write time Ctrl+F5 By modification date
Size Ctrl+F6 By file size
Unsorted Ctrl+F7 Filesystem order
Creation time Ctrl+F8 By creation time
Access time Ctrl+F9 By last access time
Change time By status change time
Description Ctrl+F10 By file descriptions
Owner Ctrl+F11 By owner UID
Allocated size By disk blocks
Hard links By hard link count
Streams count By NTFS stream count
Streams size By NTFS stream size
Use sort groups Shift+F11 Group by patterns
Show selected first Shift+F12 Selected files first
Show dirs first Dirs before files
The active mode shows an arrow: ascending or descending. Selecting the already-active mode toggles direction.
View F3 Highlight in Explorer
Edit F4 Open in editor
Copy F5 Copy files
Rename or move F6 Move or rename
Make directory F7 Create directory
Delete F8 Delete files
Swap panels Ctrl+U Swap pane directories
Panels On/Off Ctrl+O Toggle panel overlay
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