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Since most of the updates are integrated from the upstream repository, this repository is occasionally rebased.

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A twin panel (side by side) cross platform open source file manager.

This Double commander on github is fork of the official double commander project at github.
It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

The goal of this fork is to relief this project from the constraints of archaic development methotodloies by facilitating github capabilities to achieve a better collaboration and attract developers to improve this software to be the best it can.

Key Features

  • Unicode support.
  • Background file operations.
  • Multi-rename tool.
  • Tabbed interface.
  • Configurable file panel columns.
  • Internal file viewer and text editor.
  • Folder like bahviour of many archive file types.
  • Advanced search (in files).
  • Configurable button bar to start external programs or internal menu commands.
  • Total Commander plugins compatibility WCX, WDX and WLX plug-ins support.
  • File operations logging.
  • Fully configurable key mappings.

Build

Building the project on windows.

  1. Download Lazarus version 1.8 or higher and install to c:\lazarus
  2. Clone this repository using "git clone https://github.com/double-commander/doublecmd.git" or fork the project and clone your repository.
  3. Run build.bat

Opening new issues

  • Prior opening a new issue please review the current issues to make sure an identical issue isn't already exists.
  • Test your issue using one of the lastest builds to make sure it's still relevant
  • Bugs should use this template

Work flow

Since currently changes are slim, the 'master' branch in this repository is being rebased every week on top of the master branch in the upstream repository. Once a fair amount of developers will use this repository, a rebase will not occur, but a normal merge.