{"id":10,"date":"2008-03-04T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T06:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/index.php\/2008\/03\/how-i-configure-far-manager\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T06:08:05","slug":"how-i-configure-far-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2008\/03\/how-i-configure-far-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"How I configure Far Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/images\/2008\/03\/far.gif?w=604\" alt=\"far.gif\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmanager.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmanager.com\/\">Far Manager<\/a> is console-based file manager. I like it very much. Here&#8217;s how I configure it to get the maximum out of it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Set raster font, 10 x 18. Set window size 80 x 26. Turn off selection with mouse (QuickEdit mode).<\/li>\n<li>Turn on &#8220;Clear R\/O attribute from CD files&#8221;: go to Options | System Settings. I never need files to be read-only when I copy them from CD or DVD to hard drive.<\/li>\n<li>Turn on displaying hidden ($) shares: Options | Plugins configuration | Network      browser | Show hidden shares.  Now I can type <strong>net:computername<\/strong> and see C$, D$, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Options | Confirmations. Turn off confirmations for:\n<ul>\n<li>Delete non-empty folders<\/li>\n<li>Exit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Copy these command line archivers to C:\\Program Files\\Far folder:\n<ul>\n<li>pkzipc.exe<\/li>\n<li>rar.exe<\/li>\n<li>MsCab.exe<\/li>\n<li>tar.exe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately Far Manager is not bundled with any archiver so you need to get them manually, from various web sites. <strong>Update: <\/strong>see below.<\/li>\n<li>Options | Panel Settings | turn on &#8220;Select folders&#8221;. This allows using NumPad Star to select folders.<\/li>\n<li>Go to Options | Interface Settings. Turn off &#8220;Clock in panels&#8221;. I already have a clock in lower right corner. There is no need for extra clock.Turn on &#8220;Show total copy progress indicator&#8221;. Otherwise I have absolutely no clue when operation is going to finish when I have lots of files to copy.<\/li>\n<li>Go to Options | Editor Settings. Check &#8220;Del removes blocks&#8221;. Set tab size to <strong>3<\/strong>. Default 8 is way to much.<\/li>\n<li>Switch to Wide Mode. Press <strong>Left Ctrl + 4<\/strong>. I prefer this mode because I can see long file names and file sizes. Go to Options | File panel modes | Wide mode. Set Column Types to <strong>N,SC<\/strong> and Status line column types to <strong>NR,SC,D,T<\/strong>. This adds comma to file sizes:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/images\/2008\/03\/far-delimeters.gif?w=604\" alt=\"far-delimeters.gif\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Install EMenu plugin. Go to C:\\Program Files\\Far\\Plugins\\EMenu folder and execute Hotkey.reg. Now I can press <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menu_key\">Context Menu key<\/a> to get Explorer menu for selected file or folder.<\/li>\n<li>Can you read gray text on green background? I can&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/images\/2008\/03\/far-grey.gif?w=604\" alt=\"far-grey.gif\" \/><br \/>\nGo to Options | Colors | Dialogs | Unchanged text input. Set Foreground to black.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>Download pkzipc.exe, Rar.exe, MsCab.exe, gzip32.exe and tar.exe:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/skydrive.live.com\/redir?resid=A00BFBEEF5047938!140&#038;authkey=!AA3f-BzATChfyz8\">far_archivers.zip<\/a><br \/>\nExtract far_archivers.zip to C:\\Program Files\\Far folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step by step description<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-far-manager"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}