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List of menus and keyboard commands

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I realized there is not in the documentation a list of the menus and associated key commands I became interested in seeing a list, for example, of available keyboard commands sorted by key... So I made one, and I will post the results here in case anyone else finds it useful.

If you're curious how I did this without endless typing, ;) I took screen captures of all the menus with Snag-It, which has a capture mode especially for menus, and OCR'd the results with OmniPagePro. That gave me 80% of the text, anyway.

I put the result in an Excel spreadsheet to allow sorting. If anyone would like the list in that format, or in HTML, you can email me.

The first reply will be the menu list and the second reply will be the key commands sorted by key.
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Files

View F3  
Edit F4  
Properties F12 
Copy to... F5  
Move to... F6  
Rename F2  
Delete Del 
Filters...   
Use filter Ctrl+J  
History... Ctrl+H 
Exit Alt+X 
    
Mark

Select All Ctrl+A 
Select group... Grey +  
Unselect group... Grey -  
Invert selection Grey * 
Synchronize Panes F9  
Locate identical Ctrl-F9  
Advanced   
Mirror browsing Ctrl+M  
    Sync scrolling Ctrl+Y  
    Scroll to top Ctrl-P 
    Containing text... Ctrl-G  
    Sync on Content Alt-F9 
    Sync touch   
Selection   
    Store Ctrl+F11 
    Select F11 
    Unselect Alt+F11 
Generate batch... Ctrl+B  
Print selection...   
Unselect all Alt+A 
    
Edit

Undo Ctrl+Z 
Clippboard Cut Ctrl+X  
Clippboard Copy Ctrl+C 
Clippboard Paste Ctrl+V 
Paste Shortcut   
Find Target Ctrl+L 
Copy names Alt+C  
Copy preview   
    
View

Toolbars    
    Address Bar   
    Toolbar   
    Status Bar   
    Drive Bar   
    Thumb bar Alt+P 
Layouts   
    1: Ctrl+7 
    2: Ctrl+8 
    3: Ctrl+9 
Pane style   
    Large icons    
    Small icons    
    List   
    Details   
Sort by   
    Name Ctrl+Alt+N  
    Size Ctrl+Alt+S  
    Date Ctrl+Alt+D 
    Type Ctrl+Alt+T 
    Unsorted Ctrl+Alt+U  
    Ascending Ctrl+Alt+A 
Sort again Ctrl+S 
Refresh Ctrl+R  
Same folder Ctrl+I 
Equal panes Ctrl-E  
One pane Ctrl+O  
Swap panes Ctrl+U 
Options...   
    
Actions

New file F7 
New folder F8 
Touch dates   
Paste hard link   
Split file   
Merge files   
Shred   
    
Bookmarks

    0: Ctrl+0 
    1: Ctrl+1 
    2: Ctrl+2 
    3: Ctrl+3 
    4: Ctrl+4 
    5: Ctrl+5 
Go to folder   
    Parent Bksp 
    Root Shift+Bksp 
    Desktop Ctrl+Bksp 
    Previous Alt+left 
    Next Alt+right 
    Network Ctrl+N 
    Documents Ctrl+K 
    Control Panel    
    Printers    
    Recycle bin    
    Start menu    
    Startup menu   
    
Tools

Folder data... Ctrl+D  
Select Drive... Alt+F2  
Find files... Ctrl+F 
Folder Tree Ctrl+T  
Keep tree in sync   
Locate in tree Alt+T 
Run Command   
DOS Command F10 
Run History... Ctrl+F10  
Repeat command Alt+F10 
    
Help

Keyboard commands   
What's new?    
Features...    
F.A.Q....   
Website   
Online forum   
Help file F1 
Licence agreement    
About 2xExplorer...
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Alt+F2  Select Drive... 
Alt-F9     Sync on Content 
Alt+F10 Repeat command 
Alt+F11     Unselect 
Alt+A Unselect all 
Alt+C  Copy names 
Alt+P     Thumb bar 
Alt+T Locate in tree 
Alt+X Exit 
Alt+left     Previous 
Alt+right     Next 
Bksp     Parent 
Ctrl+Bksp     Desktop 
Ctrl-F9  Locate identical 
Ctrl+F10  Run History... 
Ctrl+F11     Store 
Ctrl+0     0: Bookmark 
Ctrl+1     1: Bookmark 
Ctrl+2     2: Bookmark 
Ctrl+3     3: Bookmark 
Ctrl+4     4: Bookmark 
Ctrl+5     5: Bookmark 
Ctrl+7     1: Layout 
Ctrl+8     2: Layout 
Ctrl+9     3: Layout 
Ctrl+A Select All 
Ctrl+B  Generate batch... 
Ctrl+C Clippboard Copy 
Ctrl+D  Folder data... 
Ctrl+E  Equal panes 
Ctrl+F Find files... 
Ctrl+G      Containing text... 
Ctrl+H History... 
Ctrl+I Same folder 
Ctrl+J  Use filter 
Ctrl+K     Documents 
Ctrl+L Find Target 
Ctrl+M      Mirror browsing 
Ctrl+N     Network 
Ctrl+O  One pane 
Ctrl+P     Scroll to top 
Ctrl+R  Refresh 
Ctrl+S Sort again 
Ctrl+T  Folder Tree 
Ctrl+U Swap panes 
Ctrl+V Clippboard Paste 
Ctrl+X  Clippboard Cut 
Ctrl+Y      Sync scrolling 
Ctrl+Z Undo 
Ctrl+Alt+A     Ascending 
Ctrl+Alt+D     Date 
Ctrl+Alt+N      Name 
Ctrl+Alt+S      Size 
Ctrl+Alt+T     Type 
Ctrl+Alt+U      Unsorted 
Del Delete 
F1 Help file 
F2  Rename 
F3  View 
F4  Edit 
F5  Copy to... 
F6  Move to... 
F7 New file 
F8 New folder 
F9  Synchronize Panes 
F10 DOS Command 
F11     Select 
F12 Properties 
Grey -  Unselect group... 
Grey * Invert selection 
Grey +  Select group... 
Shift+Bksp     Root 
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Post by nikos »

neato! never heard a program that can extract text out of menus
on the other hand you were Inadvertently involved in a bit of wheel reinvention there :) since a keyboard list is included in the "official" help file distributed 2xExplorer.chm
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Post by MKairys »

> a keyboard list is included in the "official" help file

Really? I looked through all the help files, FAQs, etc. There is a section in the CHM called Keyboard Shortcuts - is that what you mean? If so it's not nearly complete, and doesn't relate keys to commands... have I missed a more complete list somewhere?

> never heard a program that can extract text out of menus

OmniPage is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program; it will work on input from an image file as well as from a scanner (which is image data, after all)
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Post by narayan »

Wow! How about devoting just a fraction of that energy to creating a laundry list of specs from these forum pages? :)

BTW, that's exactly how I created the help table! The only difference is I used a freeware called MWSnap, which ALSO has the capability to snap menus (one of the best apps around, actually).

I then reversed the layout, because no one will look for help in alphabetical sequance of buttons.

About missing data- yes, we have the completed version, but we also need professionally qualified volunteers to make that cursed CHM!

BTW, the Lookup Table just below the Keyboard Shortcuts table gives the solution for day-to-day needs of most users.

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@Nikos: an OCR program is required here: one can't just snatch text from the menus directly.
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Use the Source, Luke!

Post by MKairys »

Really the way I would to this is to start with the resource file, perhaps processing it with a Perl script to get text in the format I want. (I could do that if I had specifications...)
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