Editing Total Commander

{{Short description|Orthodox file manager}}
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{{Infobox software 
| name                   = Total Commander
| logo                   = Total Commander Logo.png
| screenshot             = Screenshot of program Total Commander.png

| caption                = Total Commander 9.0a screenshot
| developer              = Christian Ghisler
| released               = {{Start date and age|1993|09|25}}
| ver layout             = stacked
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| size                   = {{Plainlist|
* Windows: 5.8 – 6.7 [[Mebibyte|MiB]]
* Android: 4.5 MiB
* Windows Phone: 2.7 MiB
  }}
| operating system       = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[Windows Phone]]
| genre                  = [[File manager]] 
| programming language   = [[Object Pascal]]
| license                = [[Shareware]] on Windows<br/>[[Freeware]] on Android and Windows Phone
| website                = {{URL|https://www.ghisler.com/}}
}}

'''Total Commander''' is an [[orthodox file manager]], i.e. it features two file list panels (selectable via [[tab key]]) and a [[Command-line interface|command line]]. It supports [[Tab (interface)|multiple tabs]] for each panel.

Total Commander is developed by Christian Ghisler and distributed as [[shareware]] or [[freeware]], depending on the platform.

Total Commander, then called Windows Commander, was originally developed for Windows, using the [[programming environment]] [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]]. Current Windows versions are developed with Delphi (for 32-bit versions) and [[Lazarus (software)|Lazarus]] (for 64-bit versions).

== Features ==
* archive file format support: [[7-Zip|7zip]], [[ACE (compressed file format)|ace]], [[ARJ|arj]], [[Cabinet (file format)|cab]], [[gzip|gz]], [[LHA (file format)|lzh]], [[RAR (file format)|rar]], [[Tar (computing)|tar]], [[List of archive formats|uc2]], [[ZIP (file format)|zip]], and more via plugins
* file compare
* file encode / decode: [[MIME|mime]], [[uuencoding|uue]], [[List of filename extensions (S–Z)#X|xxe]]
* file filter
* file rename (including multi-file rename with [[Wildcard character#Computing|wildcard]] and [[Regular expression|regex]] support)
* file search (with full text search), duplicate file search
* file split / combine
* [[File Transfer Protocol|file transfer protocol]] (FTP) client
* file tree operations: copy, delete, move, rename
* file viewer: any size in [[hexadecimal|hex]], [[Binary number|bin]], text with [[ASCII]] (DOS) or [[Windows-1252|ANSI]] (Windows) character set
* quick view panel with image and video display
* synchronize folders
* thumbnails view

Total Commander supports extensibility via [[Plug-in (computing)|plugins]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_64-bit_plugins_and_addons|title=List of 64-bit plugins and addons|website=Total Commander Wiki|access-date=14 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ghisler.com/addons.htm|title=Total Commander - Addons|website=ghisler.com|access-date=14 September 2018}}</ref> and it can bind external programs for viewing or editing files. Many plugins are freely available, e.g. different packer formats or file viewer for special file formats.
The Android version has plugins for direct access to external servers, which it presents as if they were simply local SD cards, making file copying from phone<>server trivial - currently Google Drive, Windows OneDrive, TotalDrip, LAN, SFTP and WebDAV are supported.
It also has an integrated media player that works both foreground and background - video and audio. Supporting most, if not all, file formats. 
Many functions not available by default are supported and can be assigned to icons. For example it supports device->device file transfer over WI-FI using an associated app.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ghisler.com/faq.htm|title=Total Commander - Support area|website=www.ghisler.com|access-date=14 September 2018}}</ref>

== Platforms ==
* [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
* [[Android (operating system)|Android]]
* [[Windows Phone]], [[Windows Mobile]] / [[Windows CE]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ghisler.com/ce.htm |title = Total Commander - WinCE/PocketPC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ghisler.com/ce2.htm |title = Total Commander - WinCE/PocketPC}}</ref>

Total Commander is for the most part compatible with [[Linux]] using [[Wine (software)|Wine]].<ref>[https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=614 Total Commander (a.k.a. Windows Commander)] WineHQ app db</ref>

== History ==
From 1993 until 2002, Total Commander was called Windows Commander. The name was changed in 2002 after [[Microsoft]] pointed out that the word "Windows" was their trademark.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.windowscommander.com/|title=Total Commander - Name change|website=windowscommander.com|access-date=14 September 2018}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Comparison of file managers]]
* [[Comparison of FTP client software]]
* [[Far Manager]]
* [[USB On-The-Go]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{Official website|https://www.ghisler.com/}}
*[https://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Total Commander] [[Wiki]]
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[[Category:Orthodox file managers]]
[[Category:Pocket PC software]]
[[Category:Windows Mobile Standard software]]
[[Category:Utilities for Windows]]
[[Category:FTP clients]]
[[Category:Shareware]]
[[Category:File comparison tools]]
[[Category:Pascal (programming language) software]]


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