FAR with LUA -- Version 3.0 of File Manager

FAR written by Eugene Roshal  is a very impressive -- simply great-- classic OFM Win32 API implementation. Most of its features were available in version 1.5 that was released in late 1997, but now they are much better integrated, debugged and polished. Initially it was shareware implementation, now it is a leading source implementation with BSD license. The best open source implementation of OFM manager in Windows environment available...

It was actively developed approximately until 2001 (v. 1.65) but the author probably decided that this distracts him from the RAR -- his main project and moved development to the selected group of contributors.  Like many other OFMs it looks like it might not survive the defection of the principal developer. Currently the development is stalled is for several years the only new version available is beta version 1.70.  Versions 2.0 that was released a couple of years ago was mostly conversion to Unicode and has problems with compatibility of old plugins. Version 3.0 released in  November 2012 integrates some improvements, but again it is clear that project is severely lacking resources. Among notable changes in version 3.0:

• LUA is used as macrolanguage. Several plugins that utilize LUA already exist.
• Significant changes to the API, to maximize plugins capabilities.
• All settings are now stored in the  SQLite database, so Far 3 became fully portable. Settings can be imported and exported via the xml-files.
• Significantly rewritten built-in viewer: full support for UTF8, new dump mode, and a lot of small changes.
• External rendering, providing additional features (TrueColor, and bold / italic / underline fonts) when working with ConEmu.
• In each of the "Citations to the folder" can now be done on a few links (Commands -> Links to folders).
• In the list of plug-ins, you can view information about the selected plugin (F11, F3).
• A lot of changes in the macro language.
• Backlight files with more than one hard link (hardlink).
• Improved inforpanel (Ctrl-L).
• Improved Quick view (Ctrl-Q).
• The settings are not lost when close the window Far with "x" in the upper right corner (closing window by mouse).
• A large number of bug fixes.

Far was definitely influenced by VC, DN, MC and FC. At the same time is it a very clean implementation with its own "face" and an excellent compatibility with OFM doctrine. Implementation by a very talented programmer. Very strong implementation of FTP VFS, archive VFS ( Eugene Roshal is also the author of RAR -- one of the best compression programs on the market).

Built-in editor can work with Windows Clipboard. Some new useful keys were added to the standard OFM keymap. For example the key to insert  file name with a full path (Ctrl-F). From the very beginning there was keyboard macro support (see  Far Keyboard Macros )

Panelize command and temp VFS support (Like in NC5 temp VFS is most useful as a target of the panel command from search) are implemented and can be used (via macro) to provide an Xtree VFS implementation (just search *.* everything in the subtree). But it would be better to implement Xtree VFS directly binding it to Ctrl-D. 

Unfortunately the temporary panel stores full path not just a file name so in order to use it it's better make panels asymmetrical in width with target for panelize wider that regular one (Ctrl-Left arrow or Ctrl-Right arrow).

FAR has one of the best good history implementation including history of searches, selections, visited folders and viewed/edited files. Currently it can be considered as a leader among the 32-bit classic OFM implementations.

Despite being the leader in classic OFM implementations FAR is a relative newcomer and is one of  the youngest implementations discussed in this chapter.

The greatest idea implemented in FAR is a concept of plug-ins -- a concept similar to Netscape.  In this respect FAR is a unique OFM and until recently has no competitors (since appox 2001 (v. 4.5) Total Commander now uses this concept too). Several dozens plug-ins for FAR already exist.  See an official list of plugins for more information. This is a revolutionary feature that makes FAR a class of its own.

If you are a programmer, you will feel how good Eugene is -- FAR behave very intelligently even in very complex situations.

But FAR is showing its age as it was not greatly changed since version 1.65 -- the last Eugene Roshal has relases before passing the codebase tot he team of maintainers. One major drawback is outdated system of macrovariables. Also built-in editor does not have user menu implemented.

Again, I would like to stress that currently codebase of FAR is open sourced. It is the only top implementation in Windows world with open sourced codebase and as such it is guarantied a long software life span.   

Among advanced features that FAR support are:

• Concept of plug-ins. This is a revolutionary feature that makes FAR a class of its own. Plugins have a special, well documented API  Currently a considerable library of third party plugins exist -- see FAR file manager plugins.   Among them:
  • Select from Clipboard -- by Michael Yutsis (Michael is an important contributor to the OFM field. He contributed several interesting add-ons to VC and classic DOS macrorecoder that was used by all respectable DOS users in the former USSR region. He also published several interesting add-ons to VC in the Softpanorama bulletin).
  • Descss11    -- Description Search & Select: Plugin for FAR 1.52 by Michael Yutsis
  • Registry browser -- by Michael Yutsis
  • File name completion -- Version 1.3 by Michael Yutsis. Expands host and resource names too!
  • IntelliMouse support by Vladimir Kirienko
  • Description Editor -- by Dmitry Jemerov
  • File list creator -- Plug-in for creating file lists of marked files by Andrey Belousow
  • Proxyftp -- FTP plugin module for file and directory operations on ftp servers. Feb 22nd 1999 by GanDe Soft Lab
  • ReadText --auto text scroller by Ilya V. Gershman
  • Recycle -- Recycle Bin Plugin for FAR 1.5x Version 1.5b by Oleg Pevzner & Sergey Stolper
     
• One of the best implementation of history concept in OFMs. History is present in several important domains:
  • Command history (with the ability to save it).
  • File view history -- very useful addition (Alt-F12)
  • Visited folders (directory)  history (alt-F12)
  • selection histories.
     
• Ability to work with UNIX-style regular expressions in selections, for example [c-f,t]*a.?xt.
   
• Supports of keyboard macros (several enhancements in FAR, for example using Del key instead of F8 for deleting files, were implemented using keyboard macros; see Add-ons\Macros directory for details).
   
• Customizable file highlighting scheme;
   
• Ability to insert the list of selected files into the command lineA and execute a command for selected files.. That operation that VC performs with a single keystroke (Ctrl-I) FAR can do it using Windows clipboard and standard Windows key combinations: Ctrl-Ins to copy selected files (or command line, if it is not empty) to clipboard. Ctrl-Shift-Ins always copies selected files to clipboard, regardless command line state. Shift-Ins to paste clipboard contents to command line. Such behavior is probably more flexible, because allows to insert selected file names to any other program, which can work with clipboard, but VC Ctrl-I capture the most frequently use case. Jury is still out about which implementation is better.
   
• Integration of windows clipboard with built-in editor with the ability to select text in command line windows and paste it in GUI-window (was first implemented in FC);
   
• Case conversion for files (this is a very nice feature; it was first implemented in FC);
   
• Selection enhancements
  • Shift-Gray+/Shift-Gray- for selecting deselecting all files regardless of current selection (was first implemented in DN, but is "forgotten" in v.1.50; FAR consistently has this feature since v. 1.20)
  • Option of changing case to the lowercase of all files in copy and move operations
  • Ctrl-Gray+/- can be used to select files with same extension as current;
  • Alt-Gray+/- can select all files with same name as current.

Suggestions

It would be nice if you can click on current file in the panel information line (last line in the panel) OFM should select all files with this extension and place extension in the select history list.  Double clicking should produce selection of the files with just this extension (this is achievable via Ctrl-I, but clumsy and thus underused).

Also the file history is implemented differently from panel and does not support regular panel operations. sorting and quick search might be very useful in this panel. Generally this is where FAR is largely inferior to XTree implementations.

FAR deviations from OFM1999 and shortcomings

FAR 1.62 deviates from OFM1999 standard is several minor ways. 

• Click on name, size and date does NOT change the sort order, etc. This is fixed in version 2.0
• Search on the directory tree for the target (for exampe F5-F10 combination) is buggy. If many files with the same name are present sometimes Far is unable to find the nessesary one. Also traversing the tree for the sae file names is non-standard.
• Gray+ and Gray- does not provide quick navigation on the same level for tree view. Tree navigation panel is also buggy and quick search often does not produce a hit if many names  on different levels are close. It's go to some inner level and is deadlocked their. Quick  search should not take into account nesting of directories.
• Find File operation (Ctrl-F7) cannot search using date and size due to the bugs in implementation (you need to use filter to search for file range). It is generally is very  (uncharacteristically for this very gifted author) primitive. I would like to say that it's  more primitive that NC5 implementation and in this area FAR can not be considered  orthodox enough ;-). Find panel was substantially improved by adding the panel  command, but still it require work.
• Far merged 3 extension tables (execute (Enter), view(F3) and Edit(F4) into one and stores them in the Registry. It does not provide a way to migrate other OFM association tables into the new format. The idea of merging the association tables so that one can see all three associations at once (as well as of using Windows association table as a default association -- it probably would be better if Window association would have equal standing with user defined one) is questionable -- the loss of flexibility of having separate tables in a simple text format probably outweigh all benefits. For example the ability to include the same sub tables into both extension menu and the user menu is lost. Using Windows registry for storing information is a mixed blessing. For me personally it looks very inconvenient and confusing. Crash of Windows registry is a bad enough and frequent enough event not to overload it with trivial stuff. It also means that automatic generation, formatting, merging, etc. of extension list, launched file list, etc became impossible. I consider it a very bad design decision.

  The main point is that in OFM there should be a possibility of dynamic association when user is presented with several choices. The classic example when one can benefit from that feature is the  use of extension .DOC. It is so overused (text, RTF, MS Word native format contents are common), that the correct choice of viewer is often impossible without examining the first bytes of the file.

• WEB browser style enhancements (back and forward actions for directories) are not supported out of the box.
• If server is unavailable or down FTP client keeps trying to connect for a long time with no cancel button. It can be pretty annoying. Generally FTP client should start as a separate thread so that it can be killed within FAR.

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• 20200305 : Far Manager as IDE - Codeforces ( Mar 05, 2020 , codeforces.com )
• 20170329 : Far PlugRing - category information ( Mar 29, 2017 , plugring.farmanager.com )
• 20170329 : forum.farmanager.com New system option Smart folder panel monitor... ( forum.farmanager.com New system option Smart folder panel monitor..., )
• 20170329 : forum.farmanager.com How to import Far2 configuration into Far3 ( forum.farmanager.com How to import Far2 configuration into Far3, )
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• 20121111 : The first stable build of Far Manager 3.0 is now available ( The first stable build of Far Manager 3.0 is now available, Nov 11, 2012 )
• 20121111 : In versions 1.xx and 2.xx Filter does not work if you try to select range of dates as a filtering criteria ( Nov 11, 2012 )
• 20121111 : FAR allows one panel to be full screen and the other half screen. In this case tab essentially expands the other panel to full screen ( Nov 11, 2012 )
• 20121101 : My new favorite tool, the Far File manager ( Jun 21, 2010 ,Just A Programmer )

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[Mar 05, 2020] Far Manager as IDE - Codeforces

Mar 05, 2020 | codeforces.com

1. Deep Thoughts with Richard Schoen: Using Midnite Commander ... blog.richardschoen.net/2018/01/using-midnite- commander -on-ibm-i-via.html

   Jan 14, 2018 · If you used Norton Commander back in the day you probably remember this DOS utility with a side -by-side directory list. It saved my life back in the early days of PCs. I discovered Midnite Commander a few years ago which functions as a functional equivalent to Norton Commander in Linux. There is also an AIX version so now that I have SSH working I thought I would give it a try.

[Mar 29, 2017] Far PlugRing - category information

Mar 29, 2017 | plugring.farmanager.com

Regular Expression Search and Replace

- Regular Expression search/replace from panels - Grep, Renaming, Renumbering in panels - Regular Expression search/replace in Editor - Editor filtering, transliteration - Scripting languages support - Many, many more

FileTags

File tags management

Registry browser

This FAR plugin allows you to do with registry keys and variables exactly the same things as with directories and files.There are two operation modes: "keys as directories" and "keys as files". The keys treated as files have the standard .REG format; REGEDIT.EXE is called automatically to transform keys to files and to import them back to registry (when editing or copying)...

RegEditor

This Far Manager plugin allows to browse and edit Windows Registry.

Rating : 0 | Updated : 01-10-2014 | Total downloads : 8221

SQLiteDB

View and edit tables content of SQLite database. Latest versions are available on the site http://farplugs.sourceforge.net

Rating : 0 | Updated : 25-09-2014 | Total downloads : 9243

Sniffer

The simple network sniffer that runs as a plugin for Far Manager. Intercepted IP4 packets are represented as files in the emulated file system. Latest versions are available on the site http://farplugs.sourceforge.net

Rating : 0 | Updated : 25-09-2014 | Total downloads : 3011

VersionColumn

Показ информации о EXE/DLL файлах в универсальной колонке (C0)

Rating : 0 | Updated : 21-09-2014 | Total downloads : 337

LUA File List

Генерация списка файлов по пользовательскому шаблону.

Rating : 0 | Updated : 20-09-2014 | Total downloads : 804

LuaFAR for Editor

LuaFAR for Editor: organizer of user's scripts and script packets

Rating : 0 | Updated : 11-09-2014 | Total downloads : 4645

Environment Manager

Allows configuring and easy enabling/disabling of environment variable groups.

Rating : 0 | Updated : 28-08-2014 | Total downloads : 3581

Air Brush
Air Brush is a fast syntax highlighting plugin for FAR Manager.
Rating : 32 | Updated : 10-09-2013 | Total downloads : 2250

Sudo

Plugin that allows you to run processes with various privileges. Analogue command "sudo" / "su" in linux. Relevant for MS Vista/Seven systems with enabled UAC.

mc-light dark theme from sergxt

mc-light dark theme Mc-light (aka midnight commander MP ) is lightweight unix file manager. Its theme is awesome I've ever seen. Original screenshots you can see at http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi#SCREENS I'd changed only cursor color to green.

User manager

With this plugin you can:- manage access control lists for files and folders;- manage shares;- manage local and global users and groups;- manage rights.

Rating : 100 | Updated : 23-03-2013 | Total downloads : 2699

forum.farmanager.com New system option Smart folder panel monitor...

by Mauro72 " Tue 26 Jun, 2012 22:22

More info of this option please. So i can understand and translate to my language.
Enabling this option, i can't see the effect.
Thanks.

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Re: New system option: Smart folder panel monitor...

by DrKnS " Tue 26 Jun, 2012 23:00

If enabled, far will not monitor changes in folders that are currently opened on panels if it's window not in focus.
Panels will be updated only when you switch back into far.

As a result, these folders will not be locked by far and you will be able to move or delete them using some other programs.

forum.farmanager.com How to import Far2 configuration into Far3

by thorsten " Sat 24 Dec, 2011 14:24

I'd like to try the new, coming Far3, but Far3 uses local files to store its settings (and not the Registry). How can I export my settings in Far2 to be able to import it in Far3?

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Re: How to import Far2 configuration into Far3

by Игорь Юдинцев " Mon 26 Dec, 2011 07:19

%FARHOME%\SaveSettings.cmd exports the settings to a .REG file.
This set of Perl scripts imports FAR 2 settings into FAR 3 either from a .REG file or directly from the registry.
(the same scripts as EXE's).

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Re: How to import Far2 configuration into Far3

by HaRT " Mon 26 Dec, 2011 13:24

Discussion (in Russian)

Фар есть инструмент, а не нянька. © 2009 DrKnS

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Re: How to import Far2 configuration into Far3

by Anakunda " Thu 29 Dec, 2011 11:10

I have tried 2x3_converterC and it seems to transfer most of old settings successfully, but the import was not perfect.
Transparency flags of Files highlighting and sort groups were not imported, No panel modes were imported.
Associations, color scheme look like imported fully.
Environment variables were removed from folder shortcuts.

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Re: How to import Far2 configuration into Far3

by Игорь Юдинцев " Thu 29 Dec, 2011 11:15

Check for newer versions: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6809&start=75#p87749

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Re: How to import Far2 configuration into Far3

by Anakunda " Thu 29 Dec, 2011 11:31

Tried the latest version and file panel modes still seem reset to default. I have customized some panel modes already then used the importer (import all).
Don't know why but all panel modes were reset to default layout after conversion.

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Re: How to import Far2 configuration into Far3

by mrQQ " Tue 06 Nov, 2012 19:30

how to transfer the main configuration, e.g. all the options etc?

[Nov 17, 2012] Far PlugRing - plugin information

[Nov 17, 2012] Far PlugRing - plugin information

[Nov 17, 2012] Far PlugRing - plugin information

[Nov 11, 2012] The first stable build of Far Manager 3.0 is now available

Integrates LUA. That's a pioneering development !!!. Far Manager settings and native (3.x) plugins settings are stored in SQLiteDB. See also FarManager - conemu-maximus5 - Windows Console Emulator, Far Manager plugins - Google Project Hosting

• Far Manager Official Site - download
• farplugs - Плагины для Far Manager - Google Project Hosting

Among notable changes:

• LUA is used as macrolanguage.
  
• Significant changes to the API, to maximize plugins capabilities.
  
• All settings are now stored in the SQLite database , so Far 3 became fully portable. Settings can be imported and exported via the xml-files.
  
• Significantly rewritten built-in viewer: full support for UTF8, new dump mode, and a lot of small changes.
  
• External rendering, providing additional features (TrueColor, and bold / italic / underline fonts) when working with ConEmu.
  
• In each of the "Citations to the folder" can now be done on a few links (Commands -> Links to folders).
  
• In the list of plug-ins, you can view information about the selected plugin (F11, F3).
  
• A lot of changes in the macro language.
  
• Backlight files with more than one hard link (hardlink).
  
• Improved inforpanel (Ctrl-L).
  
• Improved Quick view (Ctrl-Q).
  
• The settings are not lost when close the window Far with "x" in the upper right corner (closing window by mouse).
  
• A large number of bug fixes.

[Nov 11, 2012] In versions 1.xx and 2.xx Filter does not work if you try to select range of dates as a filtering criteria

The implementation is still very raw and undebugged. In a way it is unusable.

But there are two great ideas in FAR implementation:

• As filters are named they can be stored. This is great idea as most filters are reused.
• You can populated date dialog with today date using special button

[Nov 11, 2012] FAR allows one panel to be full screen and the other half screen. In this case tab essentially expands the other panel to full screen

This is an interesting consequence of having wide mode and it is also present in MC. I come across it quite accidentally testing mc for compatibility with OFM1999 standard.

[Nov 1, 2012] My new favorite tool, the Far File manager

Jun 21, 2010 |Just A Programmer

Strange things excite me, things even other programmers would consider strange to be excited about. Every once in a while, something comes along that excites me in multiple ways. One of those things is the orthodox file manager, Far.

The far manager was developed by Eugene Roshal, who created WinRar. It was originally shareware, but has recently been made open source.

I've known about Far for a while. I first discovered it looking for a file manager that could handle a directory with thousands of files at a job where I was doing ETL operations. It was installed on my machine by a developer of ReSharper who was troubleshooting a very strange bug on my system remotely. Also I worked in a company where several Russian's used it daily.

However, while I toyed with it several times, I never took the time to really get to know it until a few weeks ago. By really getting to know it I meant installing several plugins, and experiencing the "theres a plugin for that" joy several times over.

Overview Far is a command line based file manager with two columns and a command prompt. The command prompt behaves similar to cmd.exe, but not exactly. For example, in a standard command prompt typing "cd e:foo" whike you are on the c: drive will change the current directory on the E: drive but you still have to type e: to get to that folder. In Far typing cd e:foo does both. One other difference, that bothered my unix sensibilities, is "cd ~" changes to the folder that far is installed to. In unix this changes to the users home directory so I was expecting similar behavior. There are probably many other useful command line enhancements that I've yet to discover yet as well.

Far File Manager Installing Far and plugins. Far is available on http://farmanager.com. There is a 1.7 and 2.0 version. The 2.0 version supports unicode asnd the 1.7 version us the legacy ascii version. You can get 64 bit binaries for both versions. You can install far via an MSI, or a 7-zip archive.

After you install Far, you will want to install several plugins. I will highlight my favorite ones here. ote that while binaries compiled against the far 1.7 SDK will work with Far 2.0, 32 bit plugins will not work with 64 bit far. For this reason you probably want to install the 32 bit version of Far, unless you are like me and like pain.

Except where mentioned, these plugins can either be found at the plugring site, or for 64 bit binaries, the evil programmers google code project. I will go through some of the plugins I like below.

7-Zip As far as I know, there is no 64 bit version of this available yet. However, I probably just haven't found it yet. If you install far without this plugin, you can browse the contents of most archives in Far. However, you will not be able to copy files out of them. I've yet to try getting the built-in archive support full working. However, with all the archives supported by 7-zip, I'm in no hurry to.

Event Viewer This works like a text mode only version of eventvwr.exe. I've yet to find a truly compelling case to use it over the standar gui version. However, its nice to have an alternative tool for any job.

Service Manager This is really convenient. It lists drivers and services temperately. It also allows you to edit things you can't in the mmc snap-in, such as the path to the binary the service executes. Finally, it lets you create a new service. You rarely need to do this, but when you do its hard to find a good tool for the job.

User Manager This one is really useful, especially on XP Home edition. Functionality is similar to the "Local Users and Groups" section of the Computer Management MMC snap-in on XP Pro. The thing I really love about it is you can set the "User must change password at next logon" flag on a user in XP Home Edition. I spent the good part of a train ride from Penn Station to Islip on Friday failing to achieve this in other ways. I'm not saying its the only way this task can be done. I'm just saying that this plugin will let me accomplish this task easily.

User Must Change Password At Next Logon WinSCP The arbitrariness of alphabetical order has put what is perhaps the most useful plugin last. There is a GUI scp/sftp client for windows called WinSCP. The author also made a Far plug-in based on the same code.

This plug-in, along with the 7-zip one, also take advantage of one of the most powerful intrinsic features of Far. With Far, you can copy any file from one panel to another, regardless of whether the panels contain a local folder, a unc path, the inside of an archive, or a sftp folder. Because of this, Far is a great tool for moving files to and from remote servers.

Conclusion Far is a great file manager, and I will spend more time getting to know it. I think all programmers and sys-admins that work with Windows should get familiar with it as well.

Sarek

No syntax highlight - useless tool

Justin Dearing, Programmer, Database guy, open source contributor

Sarek,

Are you referring to the text editor? If so, there is a colorer plugin for it http://colorer.sourceforge.net....

Also if text editor features are important to you, you can use an external editor by pressing Alt+F4 instead of F4. To see how to configure the text editor in VIM visit http://forum.farmanager.com/vi....

Quite frankly, I am not estatic with the built in text editor. However, thats not what I use farmanager for. Far more useful for me is browsing remote unc paths and the sftp client.

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