Ant Commander is a file manager for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. There are 2 versions of the file manager
- Ant Commander Personal edition is a free file manager and targeted at a personal usage (Not yet released)
- Ant Commander Pro is a paid file manager and targeted at a professional usage (Beta)
Plug-ins are type of panels that you can add to the user interface.
The main plug-in used is Directory Table which shows the directory files in a table
The available plug-ins are:
- Directory Table
- Directory Tree
- HTML Viewer
- Thumbnails
Personal edition only:
- Image Viewer
- Text Editor
- Command Line
Pro version only:
- Image Viewer Pro
- Text Editor Pro
- Command Line Pro
- Binary Editor
- Tree Map Grid
- Applet Runner
- SSH
- Bean Shell
- Bookmarks
- Mega Toolbar
Panels are instances of plug-ins. You can add panels in a new split (next or below the current selected panel) or in a new tab or in a separate window.
Actions are actions that you can perform in the application. Most of the actions are available in the menu bar of the application. The main actions are available in the toolbar and status bar of the application and of the panel. Example of actions: Go to a directory, Copy Files, Show Settings. Some actions are specific to a plug-in, like Zoom is only for the Image Viewer (Pro) plug-in. Some actions won't work with some plug-ins (like Go to a directory with Bean Shell plug-in) The main actions are listed in the File -> Execute action (F9) action.
Note that Ant Commander Pro contains many more actions than Ant Commander Personal edition
Shorcuts are keyboard key combinations that execute an action.
For example F7 key will open the create directory window.
See the list of Ant Commander Pro shortcuts
Ant Commander Pro support the following file systems: local (included network drives, USB keys, external disks), zip, jar, ftp, sftp, ftps, webdav, ram, tar, gzip, bzip2, http, https, lst
