---
Type: desktop-application
ID: io.github.elfmz.far2l
Package: far2l-wx
ProjectLicense: GPL-2.0 and BSD-3-Clause
Name:
C: far2l
Summary:
C: Linux port of FAR v2
Description:
C: >-
<p>This is a clone of FAR manager for Windows, similar, but more powerful than Norton Commander/Midnight Commander.</p>
<p>Plug-ins that are currently working:</p>
<ul>
<li>align</li>
<li>arclite</li>
<li>autowrap</li>
<li>calc</li>
<li>colorer</li>
<li>compare</li>
<li>drawline</li>
<li>editcase</li>
<li>editorcomp</li>
<li>filecase</li>
<li>hexitor</li>
<li>ImageViewer</li>
<li>incsrch</li>
<li>inside</li>
<li>multiarc</li>
<li>NetRocks (SFTP/SCP/SHELL/FTP/FTPS/SMB/NFS/WebDAV)</li>
<li>OpenWith</li>
<li>python</li>
<li>SimpleIndent</li>
<li>tmppanel</li>
</ul>
Developer:
id: io.github.elfmz
name:
C: elfmz
Categories:
- Utility
- FileManager
- System
- FileTools
Url:
homepage: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l
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stock: far2l-wx
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- far2l.desktop
Provides:
mediatypes:
- inode/directory
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C: far2l
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- caption:
C: NetRocks plugin, site connection settings
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- caption:
C: Editing file attributes for a symlink
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- caption:
C: Editing file attributes for multiple files
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- caption:
C: far2l interface settings
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- caption:
C: far2l editor, code page selection
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C: far2l editor, syntaxes for code highlighting
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Releases:
- version: "2.8.0"
type: development
unix-timestamp: 1774224000
description:
C: >-
<ul>
<li>Themes support (change via <em>F9</em>->Options->Colors), changes only RGB colors of interface (not change palette
colors and Colorer in editor)</li>
<li>Editor: Word wrap (like in Windows Notepad or HTML textareas), toggled by <em>F3</em> or <em>Alt+W</em></li>
<li>Editor: Line numbers (toggled by <em>Ctrl+F3</em>)</li>
<li>Editor: Mouse selection (hold <em>Alt</em> to vertical block selection)</li>
<li>Editor: Menu in editor (<em>F9</em> to open)</li>
<li>Editor: Printing support from editor, including text highlighting (via <em>Alt+F5</em>)</li>
<li>Viewer: Links automatic highlight and clickable for URLs starting with https:, http: or mailto: (toggled on/off in Viewer
options)</li>
<li>Viewer: Menu in viewer (<em>F9</em> to open)</li>
<li>File panels: New sort option "executables first" (toggled inside <em>Ctrl+F12</em>)</li>
<li>File panels: Resume for copy operation</li>
<li>Tree panel: Option to exclude subtrees from scanning using a mask (default: hidden folders <code>.*</code>). Option to set
the maximum recursive scanning depth (default: 4). <em>Right Arrow</em> expands excluded subtrees, and <em>Left Arrow</em> collapses
subtree in focus, if it's already collapsed - navigates one level up. <em>Left Ctrl+1</em>...<em>Left Ctrl+0</em> expands all branches
to the chosen depth (1...10).</li>
<li>Dialog edit fields: Visual show trailing spaces/tabs and Select All by <em>Ctrl+A</em></li>
<li><em>New:</em> Colored multiline edit control in "Multiline paste" and "Edit user menu" dialogs</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Options of the special command <code>edit:[line,col]</code> for openening file with position</li>
<li><em>New:</em> NetBSD support</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Show Pseudo-graphics on VT100+ terminals</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Macro Browser (<em>F9</em>->Commands->Macro Browser)</li>
<li>Fix scrolling from precise input devices</li>
<li>Optimize bracketed paste performance by buffering input events</li>
<li>TTY/Kitty: Map Cmd to Ctrl on macOS for Cmd+C/V/X/Z support</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: FTP fixes with date/time, SFTP fixes with quotes</li>
<li><em>hexitor plugin</em>: fix broken layout with narrow window</li>
<li><em>ImageViewer plugin</em>: New panel plugin (<em>F11</em>->Image Viewer or <em>Ctrl+PgDn</em> to open image/video file).
Uses ImageMagick for graphics operations and ffmpeg for video preview, works in GUI and in TTY|F and TTY|k.</li>
<li><em>memo plugin</em>: New multi-page scratchpad/memo common plugin (<em>F11</em>->Memo or <em>Ctrl+Alt+S</em> inside Panel,
Dialog, Editor or Viewer; see memo/README.md)</li>
<li><em>incsrch plugin</em>: Support Unicode searches and better support for single byte codepages, improve example of activation
macros</li>
<li><em>edsort plugin</em>: New plugin in editor (<em>F11</em>->Sort rows) to sort selected block of text at choosen column</li>
<li><em>truncate plugin</em>: New plugin in editor (<em>F11</em>->Truncate File) to remove trailing white spaces in all lines
and remove empty lines in end of file</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled 7z sources to 26.00</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled unrar sources to 7.20</li>
<li><em>arclite plugin</em>: More symlinks/hardlinks support: works with RAR/TAR/NTFS; fix option "Link path: Absolute/Relative"
for symlinks when create archive (see #3094)</li>
<li><em>OpenWith plugin</em>: Update to v1.1. Added support for DE-specific mimeapps.list files; improved MIME detection (Magika
AI & native globs2 pattern matching); better compliance with XDG/Freedesktop specifications; bugfixes and performance optimizations.</li>
<li>Several bugfixes and improvements</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.7.0"
type: development
unix-timestamp: 1761436800
description:
C: >-
<ul>
<li>Far2l internal virtual terminal: Now the original output of applications is preserved. The Far2l VT window applies dynamic
formatting with correct line wrapping. Operations such as F3/F4 and copy/paste use the original, unwrapped lines.</li>
<li><em>New:</em> new debug dump functionality (see DUMPER.md)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> far2l-cd.sh wrapper to enable external directory change to far2l's when it exit (#2758)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> '$z' command prompt variable that returns the "{current git branch} " string; an empty string otherwise</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Separate icons for WX versions of far2l and far2ledit</li>
<li><em>New:</em> far:config as "Configuration editor" and far:about as "About FAR" in Commands menu</li>
<li><em>New:</em> support (and warning) for pasting and executing multiline text in command line</li>
<li>Editor: Display of various non-printable characters on <em>F5</em> (ShwSpc)</li>
<li>Workaround for wxWigets Numeric Keypad regression in wxWidgets 3.2.7 only (#2721)</li>
<li>Actions recorded in commands history are configured in the AutoComplete & History dialog</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Add support of libssh SSH_OPTIONS_PROXYCOMMAND option</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Fix AWS S3 1000 files limit via pagination</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Enable smb protocol in macOS builds</li>
<li><em>Temporary panel plugin</em>: Show file groups</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer schemes to v1.2.0.90</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer library to v1.5.0-22.08.2025</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Added features for easier modification of the set and behavior of the user's hrc/hrd files, without
editing the supplied base set.</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Improved performance around logging</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Fix read default-back/default-fore params</li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: fixes and new subplugin <em>uedreplace</em></li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled 7z sources to 25.01</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled unrar sources to 7.13</li>
<li><em>arclite plugin</em>: New plugin for archives processing (now as experimental version which partially more effective then
multiarc; arclite disabled by default, to enable manually turn on F9->Options->Plugins configuration->ArcLite->[x] Enable
Arclite plugin)</li>
<li><em>hexitor plugin</em>: Hex editor (ported from far3) + preliminary support for viewing and editing UTF-8 characters</li>
<li><em>OpenWith plugin</em>: New plugin provides a context-aware menu to open the currently selected file with an appropriate
application</li>
<li>Several bugfixes</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.6.5"
type: development
unix-timestamp: 1743292800
description:
C: >-
<ul>
<li><em>New:</em> Different desktop files for launch WX (GUI) <code>--notty</code> and TTY <code>--tty</code></li>
<li><em>New:</em> Horizontal panels layout (toggle horizontal-vertical by <em>Ctrl+,</em>)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Groups of file masks</li>
<li><em>New:</em> "Files highlighting and sort groups" dialog short/full view by <em>Ctrl+M</em></li>
<li><em>New:</em> Customize Size column in panels (all by dialog or <em>Ctrl+Alt+D</em>, symlinks by <em>Ctrl+Alt+L</em>)</li>
<li>More customize dirs/files markers in panels (by dialog or <em>Ctrl+Alt+M</em> and <em>Ctrl+Alt+N</em>)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Link item in File menu (in addition to the usual <em>Alt+F6</em>)</li>
<li>File attributes dialog (by <em>Ctrl+A</em>): ability to show "uname"/"gname" or "uid: uname"/"gid: gname"</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Chattr / chflags with all flags for single file (in File menu or by <em>Ctrl+Alt+A</em>)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Python-subplugin: copy/paste files via clipboard - wx ONLY version - with support for gnome clipboard types,
works with gnome files/nautilus</li>
<li><em>New:</em> At 1st run detect Russian locale</li>
<li><em>New:</em> At 1st run show OSC52 info (if need)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Far colors moved to farcolors.ini</li>
<li>Help actualization and improvements</li>
<li>Info panel: New EditorConfig block</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer schemes to v1.2.0.62</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer library to v1.4.1-24.01.2025</li>
<li><em>Inside plugin</em>: Add PE format, add png, ogg, m4a and Mach-O support</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Removed PCRE library dependencies</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Explicit SSH algorithms options</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Add AWS S3 protocol support (<em>optional compilation if AWSSDK installed</em>)</li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: New subplugin <em>hex editor</em></li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: Removed debugpy dependencies</li>
<li><em>Temporary panel plugin</em>: Significant fixes, tweaks and improvements</li>
<li>optional ability to use icu available on build system or target</li>
<li>Several bugfixes</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.6.4"
type: development
unix-timestamp: 1731888000
description:
C: >-
<ul>
<li><em>New:</em> icons and a desktop file for far2ledit</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Default Files highlighting with dirs/files markers a la <code>mc</code> and <code>ls -F</code></li>
<li><em>New:</em> Panels customization align filenames by marks (by dialog and <em>Ctrl+Alt+M</em>)</li>
<li>Info panel: add hide/show blocks + additions in file systems info and tuning git status</li>
<li><em>New:</em><em>Ctrl-Alt-\</em> quick jump to the mount point of the current folder's file system</li>
<li>Enable esc expiration if we've got no TTY|X or got TTY|X without Xi (<code>--ee</code> no need more)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Add special commands <code>edit:<</code> and <code>view:<</code> for grab redirect output</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Extend <code>--nodetect</code> option to cover win32/iTerm2/kovidgoyal's kitty modes</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Add bash-completion</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer lib to v1.4.1</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Change logger library</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled 7z sources to 24.08</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled unrar sources to 7.0.9</li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: New subplugins</li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: Build changes and requirements</li>
<li>Several bugfixes</li>
</ul>
ContentRating:
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---
Type: desktop-application
ID: io.github.elfmz.far2l
Package: far2l-wx
ProjectLicense: GPL-2.0 and BSD-3-Clause
Name:
C: far2l
Summary:
C: Linux port of FAR v2
Description:
C: |-
<p>This is a clone of FAR manager for Windows, similar, but more powerful than Norton Commander/Midnight
Commander.</p>
<p>Plug-ins that are currently working:</p>
<ul>
<li>align</li>
<li>arclite</li>
<li>autowrap</li>
<li>calc</li>
<li>colorer</li>
<li>compare</li>
<li>drawline</li>
<li>editcase</li>
<li>editorcomp</li>
<li>filecase</li>
<li>hexitor</li>
<li>ImageViewer</li>
<li>incsrch</li>
<li>inside</li>
<li>multiarc</li>
<li>NetRocks (SFTP/SCP/SHELL/FTP/FTPS/SMB/NFS/WebDAV)</li>
<li>OpenWith</li>
<li>python</li>
<li>SimpleIndent</li>
<li>tmppanel</li>
</ul>
Developer:
id: io.github.elfmz
name:
C: elfmz
Categories:
- Utility
- FileManager
- System
- FileTools
Url:
homepage: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l
Icon:
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height: 128
stock: far2l-wx
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- far2l.desktop
Provides:
mediatypes:
- inode/directory
Screenshots:
- default: true
caption:
C: far2l
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height: 874
- caption:
C: NetRocks plugin, site connection settings
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- caption:
C: Editing file attributes for a symlink
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C: Editing file attributes for multiple files
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C: far2l interface settings
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C: far2l editor, code page selection
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C: far2l editor, syntaxes for code highlighting
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Releases:
- version: "2.9.0"
type: development
unix-timestamp: 1787788800
description:
C: |-
<ul>
<li><em>New:</em> GUI|SDL Backend (experimental now; not compiled by default, set flag <code>-DUSESDL=YES</code>
explicitly to compile both GUI|WX and GUI|SDL backends together or <code>-DUSESDL=YES -DUSEWX=NO</code>
to compile only GUI|SDL; command line parameter <code>--SDL</code> to force run GUI|SDL backend)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Added a new option "Auto save panels state" (in "System settings") and details choice
of categories in manual config saving (via <em>Shift+F9</em>)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Added a new option "Show startup banner in built-in terminal"</li>
<li>Themes: added "CRT Classic", "Catpuccin Macchiato", "Fallout Red", "Hercules Classic", "Hercules
Night", "MDA Classic", "Ogres and Goblins", fixes to "Gold on Blue" and "DOS Navigator"</li>
<li><em>Alt+Ins</em>: now copies to clipboard also colored HTML; selects whole screen by <em>A</em>
or <em>Ctrl+A</em> key press; deselect by <em>U</em> or <em>Ctrl+U</em> key press</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Automatic color contrast correction (toggled in <em>F9</em>->Options->Interface
settings->Auto-adjust colors contrast)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Colored diff of two files from file panels, editable, mergeable (from file panels
<em>Ctrl+D</em> and <em>Ctrl+Shift+D</em> or <em>F9</em>->Commands->File diff)</li>
<li><em>Ctrl+Enter</em> supports selected files to be placed in command line (toggled in <em>F9</em>->Options->Command
line settings)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Multiline command line support (see: #3228)</li>
<li>Macro Browser (<em>F9</em>->Commands->Macro Browser): for Macros now support operations Add,
Edit, Delete, Enable/Disable and Show List of Global Constants, Global Variables and MacroFunctions</li>
<li><em>New</em>: <code>--nodetect=e</code> command line parameter to prevent emoji VS16 suffix detection</li>
<li><em>New</em>: Restore initial terminal cursor shape on exit</li>
<li>Editor: "All" button in search dialog - list all occurrences at once</li>
<li>Editor/Viewer: search/replace dialog: don't start search if search string is empty or regular expression
is invalid</li>
<li>Viewer: Hex Mode now supports multibyte UTF-8, UTF-16 etc.</li>
<li>Viewer: Printing support from viewer (via <em>Alt+F5</em>)</li>
<li>Fix cmdline autocomplete when commands deduplicated by text</li>
<li>Fix AltGr producing uppercase letters in WX backend</li>
<li>SysID for all Plugins (may be used from macros to call plugins via macrofunction <code>callplugin</code>;
a plugin's SysID may be seen via <code>far:about</code> or in plugin's source code)</li>
<li><em>ADB plugin</em>: New panel plugin for accessing Android devices in developer mode, both shell
commands and file system (see plugins/adb/README.md)</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer schemes to v1.2.0.110 (see: CHANGELOG.md)</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer library to v1.5.0-19.08.2026: Parser and regexp performance,
dramatically increased initial coloring for large files (see: #3567)</li>
<li><em>edsort plugin</em>: Support unique row sorting and preserve dialog values</li>
<li><em>GitGutter plugin</em>: New plugin in editor (<em>F11</em>->GitGutter) to show Git changes
directly in the far2l editor gutter; click gutter marks or press <em>Ctrl+G</em> or <em>Ctrl+Shift+G</em>
to open the nearest hunk at the current editor line</li>
<li><em>jumpword plugin</em>: New plugin in editor to quick searches the word under the cursor below
or above the current location (for use manually add macros, see: plugins/jumpword/README.md)</li>
<li><em>MTP plugin</em>: New panel plugin to browse and manage files on USB-connected MTP/PTP devices
(Android, cameras, iOS Camera Roll, media players); see plugins/mtp/README.md)</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled unrar sources to 7.23</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: AWS support with biuld-in custom S3 implementation based on neon (not
need aws-sdk-cpp anymore)</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: FISH+ protocol: Server-side copy, Recursive delete in one round trip,
Remote search / server-side grep, etc. (see: FISHPLUS/INTEGRATION.md and #3542)</li>
<li><em>ImageViewer plugin</em>: New actions: <em>I</em> / <em>F3</em> - show full EXIF metadata using
<code>exiftool</code>; <em>G</em> / <em>Alt+F8</em> - choose a map service and open the GPS location
from the current file's EXIF metadata in a browser; <em>T</em> / <em>Ctrl+F10</em> - exit and move
the panel cursor to the currently viewed file. Fix extra commands menu logic and data consistency.</li>
<li><em>OpenWith plugin</em>: Update to v1.3. <em>General</em>: Added a progress dialog allowing cancellation
of application discovery; allow plugin invocation on <code>..</code> (treated as the current directory);
new option "Display filename in the menu title"; bugfixes and help updates. <em>Linux/BSD</em>: new
options "Show package qualifiers", "Ignore [Removed Associations] section", "Query system defaults
via xdg-mime"; new buttons "GoTo .desktop", "GoTo TryExec", and "GoTo source" in the "Details" dialog.
<em>macOS</em>: more comprehensive information in the "Details" dialog; new "GoTo bundle location"
button in the "Details" dialog; new options "Show UTI instead of MIME types", "Respect system ranking",
"Disable ranking and sort alphabetically".</li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: plugin manager (upluginmanager.py), fixes and new subplugins uhashes.py
uimgimage.py, uimgpdf.py, ustealer.py (see: #3346 and #3439)</li>
<li><em>Transformer plugin</em>: New plugin in panel and editor (<em>F11</em>->Transform) to generic
Unix-filter dispatcher for transforming editor selections, complete editor buffers, and selected panel
files with configurable external commands</li>
<li>Several bugfixes and improvements</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.8.0"
type: development
unix-timestamp: 1774224000
description:
C: |-
<ul>
<li>Themes support (change via <em>F9</em>->Options->Colors), changes only RGB colors of interface
(not change palette colors and Colorer in editor)</li>
<li>Editor: Word wrap (like in Windows Notepad or HTML textareas), toggled by <em>F3</em> or <em>Alt+W</em></li>
<li>Editor: Line numbers (toggled by <em>Ctrl+F3</em>)</li>
<li>Editor: Mouse selection (hold <em>Alt</em> to vertical block selection)</li>
<li>Editor: Menu in editor (<em>F9</em> to open)</li>
<li>Editor: Printing support from editor, including text highlighting (via <em>Alt+F5</em>)</li>
<li>Viewer: Links automatic highlight and clickable for URLs starting with https:, http: or mailto:
(toggled on/off in Viewer options)</li>
<li>Viewer: Menu in viewer (<em>F9</em> to open)</li>
<li>File panels: New sort option "executables first" (toggled inside <em>Ctrl+F12</em>)</li>
<li>File panels: Resume for copy operation</li>
<li>Tree panel: Option to exclude subtrees from scanning using a mask (default: hidden folders <code>.*</code>).
Option to set the maximum recursive scanning depth (default: 4). <em>Right Arrow</em> expands excluded
subtrees, and <em>Left Arrow</em> collapses subtree in focus, if it's already collapsed - navigates
one level up. <em>Left Ctrl+1</em>...<em>Left Ctrl+0</em> expands all branches to the chosen depth
(1...10).</li>
<li>Dialog edit fields: Visual show trailing spaces/tabs and Select All by <em>Ctrl+A</em></li>
<li><em>New:</em> Colored multiline edit control in "Multiline paste" and "Edit user menu" dialogs</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Options of the special command <code>edit:[line,col]</code> for opening file with
position</li>
<li><em>New:</em> NetBSD support</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Show Pseudo-graphics on VT100+ terminals</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Macro Browser (<em>F9</em>->Commands->Macro Browser)</li>
<li>Fix scrolling from precise input devices</li>
<li>Optimize bracketed paste performance by buffering input events</li>
<li>TTY/Kitty: Map Cmd to Ctrl on macOS for Cmd+C/V/X/Z support</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: FTP fixes with date/time, SFTP fixes with quotes</li>
<li><em>hexitor plugin</em>: fix broken layout with narrow window</li>
<li><em>ImageViewer plugin</em>: New panel plugin (<em>F11</em>->Image Viewer or <em>Ctrl+PgDn</em>
to open image/video file). Uses ImageMagick for graphics operations and ffmpeg for video preview, works
in GUI and in TTY|F and TTY|k.</li>
<li><em>memo plugin</em>: New multi-page scratchpad/memo common plugin (<em>F11</em>->Memo or <em>Ctrl+Alt+S</em>
inside Panel, Dialog, Editor or Viewer; see plugins/memo/README.md)</li>
<li><em>incsrch plugin</em>: Support Unicode searches and better support for single byte codepages,
improve example of activation macros</li>
<li><em>edsort plugin</em>: New plugin in editor (<em>F11</em>->Sort rows) to sort selected block
of text at chosen column</li>
<li><em>truncate plugin</em>: New plugin in editor (<em>F11</em>->Truncate File) to remove trailing
white spaces in all lines and remove empty lines in end of file</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled 7z sources to 26.00</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled unrar sources to 7.20</li>
<li><em>arclite plugin</em>: More symlinks/hardlinks support: works with RAR/TAR/NTFS; fix option "Link
path: Absolute/Relative" for symlinks when create archive (see #3094)</li>
<li><em>OpenWith plugin</em>: Update to v1.1. Added support for DE-specific mimeapps.list files; improved
MIME detection (Magika AI & native globs2 pattern matching); better compliance with XDG/Freedesktop
specifications; bugfixes and performance optimizations.</li>
<li>Several bugfixes and improvements</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.7.0"
type: development
unix-timestamp: 1761436800
description:
C: |-
<ul>
<li>Far2l internal virtual terminal: Now the original output of applications is preserved. The Far2l
VT window applies dynamic formatting with correct line wrapping. Operations such as F3/F4 and copy/paste
use the original unwrapped lines.</li>
<li><em>New:</em> new debug dump functionality (see DUMPER.md)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> far2l-cd.sh wrapper to enable external directory change to far2l's when it exit (#2758)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> '$z' command prompt variable that returns the "{current git branch} " string; an
empty string otherwise</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Separate icons for WX versions of far2l and far2ledit</li>
<li><em>New:</em> far:config as "Configuration editor" and far:about as "About FAR" in Commands menu</li>
<li><em>New:</em> support (and warning) for pasting and executing multiline text in command line</li>
<li>Editor: Display of various non-printable characters on <em>F5</em> (ShwSpc)</li>
<li>Workaround for wxWidgets Numeric Keypad regression in wxWidgets 3.2.7 only (#2721)</li>
<li>Actions recorded in commands history are configured in the AutoComplete & History dialog</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Add support of libssh SSH_OPTIONS_PROXYCOMMAND option</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Fix AWS S3 1000 files limit via pagination</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Enable smb protocol in macOS builds</li>
<li><em>Temporary panel plugin</em>: Show file groups</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer schemes to v1.2.0.90</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer library to v1.5.0-22.08.2025</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Added features for easier modification of the set and behavior of the
user's hrc/hrd files, without editing the supplied base set.</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Improved performance around logging</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Fix read default-back/default-fore params</li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: fixes and new subplugin <em>uedreplace</em></li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled 7z sources to 25.01</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Update bundled unrar sources to 7.13</li>
<li><em>arclite plugin</em>: New plugin for archives processing (now as experimental version which
partially more effective than multiarc; arclite disabled by default, to enable manually turn on F9->Options->Plugins
configuration->ArcLite->[x] Enable Arclite plugin)</li>
<li><em>hexitor plugin</em>: Hex editor (ported from far3) + preliminary support for viewing and editing
UTF-8 characters</li>
<li><em>OpenWith plugin</em>: New plugin provides a context-aware menu to open the currently selected
file with an appropriate application</li>
<li>Several bugfixes</li>
</ul>
- version: "2.6.5"
type: development
unix-timestamp: 1743292800
description:
C: |-
<ul>
<li><em>New:</em> Different desktop files for launch WX (GUI) <code>--notty</code> and TTY <code>--tty</code></li>
<li><em>New:</em> Horizontal panels layout (toggle horizontal-vertical by <em>Ctrl+,</em>)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Groups of file masks</li>
<li><em>New:</em> "Files highlighting and sort groups" dialog short/full view by <em>Ctrl+M</em></li>
<li><em>New:</em> Customize Size column in panels (all by dialog or <em>Ctrl+Alt+D</em>, symlinks by
<em>Ctrl+Alt+L</em>)</li>
<li>More customize dirs/files markers in panels (by dialog or <em>Ctrl+Alt+M</em> and <em>Ctrl+Alt+N</em>)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Link item in File menu (in addition to the usual <em>Alt+F6</em>)</li>
<li>File attributes dialog (by <em>Ctrl+A</em>): ability to show "uname"/"gname" or "uid: uname"/"gid:
gname"</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Chattr / chflags with all flags for single file (in File menu or by <em>Ctrl+Alt+A</em>)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Python-subplugin: copy/paste files via clipboard - wx ONLY version - with support
for gnome clipboard types, works with gnome files/nautilus</li>
<li><em>New:</em> At 1st run detect Russian locale</li>
<li><em>New:</em> At 1st run show OSC52 info (if need)</li>
<li><em>New:</em> Far colors moved to farcolors.ini</li>
<li>Help actualization and improvements</li>
<li>Info panel: New EditorConfig block</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer schemes to v1.2.0.62</li>
<li><em>colorer plugin</em>: Update colorer library to v1.4.1-24.01.2025</li>
<li><em>Inside plugin</em>: Add PE format, add png, ogg, m4a and Mach-O support</li>
<li><em>multiarc plugin</em>: Removed PCRE library dependencies</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Explicit SSH algorithms options</li>
<li><em>NetRocks plugin</em>: Add AWS S3 protocol support (<em>optional compilation if AWSSDK installed</em>)</li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: New subplugin <em>hex editor</em></li>
<li><em>python plugin</em>: Removed debugpy dependencies</li>
<li><em>Temporary panel plugin</em>: Significant fixes, tweaks and improvements</li>
<li>optional ability to use icu available on build system or target</li>
<li>Several bugfixes</li>
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