fman 1.7.12

Delete and rename without leaving the viewer, F2 renames, and every viewer action now says what it did

• The image, text and video viewers can now delete and rename the file you are looking at. "Delete file" moves it to the Recycle Bin after the usual confirmation, and "Rename file..." keeps the viewer open on the renamed file. A "Close viewer after deleting" toggle decides whether a delete drops you back to the file list or walks on to the next file - so a folder of photos can be culled without ever leaving the viewer.
• Every viewer action now confirms itself in the status bar: "Reloaded from disk", "Edit mode", "Saved", "Font size 12", "Zoom 125%", "Paused", or the name of the file Next/Previous landed on. It matters most where the pane looks unchanged afterwards - reloading a file that has not changed on disk was previously invisible.
• A failed save no longer disappears silently. The status bar reports "Could not save: " and the buffer stays modified, so you can retry with "Save file as..." instead of losing the edit.
• F2 now renames the file under the cursor. It works alongside Shift+F6, which stays as the dual-pane convention.
• Ctrl+J and Ctrl+K move the cursor down and up, for vim-trained fingers. The bare letters j and k stay unbound on purpose - they still type into the live filter.
• Fixed: renaming a file in a pane sorted by Modified (descending) sent it to the bottom of the list until the next reload. It now lands in its correct sorted position.
• Fixed: a file that overwrote an existing one kept showing the old file's size, date and icon.
• The first-run tutorial now ends by showing you where the themes, icon sets and fonts live, so fman does not have to keep its default look.

fman 1.7.11

Failed renames can be retried, and single-pane mode keeps your focus

• A rename that fails no longer throws away what you typed. The error now offers Retry and Cancel, so you can fix the cause - close the file, free the name - and try the same name again without typing it a second time.
• While only the active pane is shown, switching panes no longer moves focus into the hidden one. Your keystrokes stay where you can see them.
• Plugins that import from fman's Core commands module keep working again after the module was split up internally.

fman 1.7.10

Rename commands and rebind keys without leaving the palette

• Commands can now carry your own name. Open the entry menu for any command palette entry, rename it to whatever you actually call it, and it is found and shown under that name from then on. The original name stays searchable, and a reset action puts it back.
• Keyboard shortcuts can now be changed from the command palette itself, in both the main palette and the viewer palette. Pick a command, press the key combination you want, and it is added, replaces the existing one, or is removed again - your bindings are kept across restarts.

fman 1.7.9

Make fman look the way you want

• fman can now draw its interface in a typeface you choose. Run "Select font" from the command palette and pick one of eight bundled families, including JetBrains Mono, Fira Code and IBM Plex Sans, so the same look is available on every machine you use.
• File icons are no longer limited to the ones your operating system supplies. Run "Select icon set" and switch to the bundled Material set for a distinct icon per programming language, per well-known config file and per well-known folder name, and use "Set icon size" to pick how large they are drawn.
• Themes can now show a background image behind the window and behind the file panes, with control over how it is fitted, where it is anchored and how strongly it shows through. The new bundled Matrix theme uses it.
• The status bar at the bottom of the window can be turned off from the command palette, and stays off across restarts.
• The text viewer can now search inside the file you are looking at. Find a term, jump to the next or previous match, and leave the search again, from the viewer keys or the command palette.
• Command palette entries can be taught your own words. Press Shift+Enter on any entry to edit the keywords it is found by, so a command you keep looking for under a different name is there the next time.
• "Install plugin" now lists plugins by how recently they were worked on, so actively maintained ones come first.

fman 1.7.8

Themes, no more license nag, and faster archives

• You can now change how fman looks: run "Select theme" from the command palette and pick from eleven bundled themes, including Dark, Light, Solarized, Nord, Dracula and Gruvbox. The new theme applies immediately, no restart needed.
• Every installation is fully activated. Registration, license checks and the reminder screen are gone.
• Working with .zip, .7z and .tar archives on Windows is roughly six times faster, and the progress bar now actually moves while a large archive is packed or extracted.
• The command palette also matches alternative words for a command, so you find it even when you don't remember its exact name.
• Opening a video without the required components now tells you what is missing instead of showing an empty viewer.

fman 1.7.7

One window, faster network shares, and file navigation in viewers

• fman now runs as a single window: opening a folder or file from Explorer or the command line sends it to the window you already have open instead of starting a second one.
• You can jump to the next or previous file straight from the text, image, and video viewers, so you can flip through a folder without going back to the file list.
• Browsing network shares stays responsive: folders now load progressively instead of freezing while Windows looks up icons and hidden files.
• The command palette finds a command even when you type its words in a different order.

fman 1.7.6

Preview in the other pane and a properties crash fix

• You can now preview a file in the opposite pane, so you can look at a file while keeping your place in the current folder.
• Fixed crashes that could happen when opening a file's properties.

fman 1.7.5

Video and image viewing, open-or-view, and a crash fix

• The internal viewer now plays video files (via a bundled, on-demand libmpv), in addition to text and images.
• The text viewer can now auto-reload a file as it changes on disk, with an optional tail mode for following logs.
• Added an "Open or View" command that opens files in the internal viewer and directories normally, so you can bind a single key to both.
• Fixed a crash on startup for installed builds where opening the command palette could raise an error before release notes were even checked.