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How to install the plugin in far. Far Manager is a free file manager for Windows. Where to download Far Manager

We continue our series of articles about the programs I use at work. Today it is one of the oldest programs I use, FAR. Despite the venerable age of 15 years and the unpretentious interface, in the form of two blue text windows. FAR is one of the most powerful file managers today, and uses many features of modern operating systems. Windows systems Vista and Windows 7. And the number and quality of plugins written for it allows you to make almost anything out of it. In addition, as of version 2.0, FAR is free and open source.

File managers and what they are used for

Once upon a time, when the trees were big, the sky was bluer, and computers were weaker than modern ones cell phones. Most Popular operating system was MS DOS. Its receiver is now the Windows console or cmd. In those distant times Windows times was an add-on to DOS and the vast majority of users did not use it. And in 1986, one of the first file managers, Norton Commander (aka Norton, from just NC) was released. It was he who first showed the whole world 2 blue windows. It was this format that became the basis for a huge number of file managers, its layout and commands became textbook, and the speed and ease of working with it were remembered by many. Many users who have experienced all the benefits of working with it still use its analogues. And quite a few of them have appeared since that time. Volkov Commander, which had a small size with basic capabilities, DOS Navigator, which had great capabilities, etc.

But then Windows 95 came into the world and changed it. It was no longer an add-on to DOS, it was an independent OS providing enormous capabilities. File managers also began to be developed for it. One of which was File and Archive Manager or simply FAR.

Far Manager today

Today FAR Manager is free, distributed under the BSD license, file manager. It is constantly being developed on the project page http://www.farmanager.com There is also a forum and a database of plugins for it. It works great with everyone Windows versions, including in mode Server Core

x32 and x64 versions are available for download. There are stable and daily or builds (despite the name they are also very stable) downloading is also available in the form of a 7z archive or an msi package (May be useful for deploying software via GPO)

Many people are wondering. Why do you need x64 version in such a simple program as a file manager? It does not consume large resources and does not need high performance. To answer this question, go to the Windows\System32\Drivers folder with any x32 manager, in any x64 system, and remember the number of files you saw, and then go there with a simple explorer. And you will see that there are much more of them there. But it’s precisely working with files and folders main function for any file manager

It comes with a large number of plugins that allow you to work with FTP and the network. There is a built-in process manager and archive manager. It allows you to copy with the mouse and use contextual Windows menu on the right key. To call the context menu you need to hold down the key for 3-5 seconds

The Emenu plugin is used for this.

Additional functions include support for working with User Account Control(UAC)

And dynamic display of copying and other actions in Windows icon 7

Please note that FAR remains console program, and allows you to use all the possibilities Windows console right in it. In addition, it has memory for using console programs

Plugins for Far Manager

Attention: The version of the plugins used depends on the version of FAR Manager; for the x64 version you must use x64 versions of the plugins. All the plugins I described have x64 versions. Compatibility of plugins with different versions is indicated in a special topic

All plugins are installed in the Far\Plugins folder by unpacking them and then restarting FAR

A must have plugin. Significantly expands the capabilities of configuring and using FAR Manager and more. It is a console emulator. If, upon startup, it finds the far.exe file, it launches it and works in its environment. I'm using conemu as the main bootloader for FAR. Its possibilities are enormous

Run multiple copies of FAR and more, can work with any console program or PowerShell, cmd, telnet, etc.
Run programs as an administrator or any other user, there is UAC support

Allows you to view console output in long FARs. Which cannot be viewed as standard. Useful when viewing large listings

To enable console input, use the CtrlO_View.reg macro located in the ConEmu\ConEmu.Addons folder. By default it is set to Ctrl+O, but I recommend using another combination such as Ctrl+S by editing the line

to the one you need

Additional coloring and modification appearance FAR and the fonts it uses

Settings are launched by right-clicking on the top bar and selecting settings

Perform copy/paste from the FAR console
and much more

Archiver for FAR based on free 7-zip. FAR already has a built-in archiver, but to use it you need many console versions of the original programs. This plugin uses the capabilities of the well-known archive manager 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) and, in my opinion, is more convenient to use

Attention: For the plugin to work, you only need the 7z.dll library located in the folder in the installed archiver, I usually copy it to the folder with the plugin

Allows you to organize syntax highlighting in the built-in editor, has support for many languages, is convenient

Allows you to use the power of .NET and PowerShell environments directly from FAR. Unfortunately, this seriously increases the startup speed and resources consumed by FAR Manager.

First the plugin is installed FarNet. Then the plugin is installed in the Far\FarNet\Modules folder PowerShellFar

FarSniffer, FarHexitor and other system utilities(http://code.google.com/p/farplugs/downloads/list)

A small network sniffer and HEX editor. things like that never hurt

And many others. Far Manager has programs for working with communicators based on WinMobile and Android or mobile phones. Watching video pictures and listening to music. And many more.

Conclusion

As you can see today, Far Manager is a modern and constantly evolving program, in addition, free, open source code and virtually unlimited configuration possibilities. All this allows me to recommend it to anyone who needs to make their work easier

However, despite all its versatility, FAR does not do everything. For example, it is not able to work with the registry or edit unicode files normally. It's good that there are fans who have written a lot of plugins and additions for this useful program. You can easily find their complete list, including almost half a thousand items, at plugring.farmanager.com. By tradition, we selected the ten best from them. If you bought the magazine with a disk, then you don’t have to download anything: we have already downloaded the most interesting additions for FAR and placed them on the DPK-CD.

Installing most of them should not cause you any problems. Typically, you need to create a subfolder with the name of the module in the directory C:Program FilesFarPlugins and then unpack all the files from the plugin archive into it. That's it - after restarting the program, FAR will recognize the extension and will work with it.

Far Navigator

The second name of this module is ProxyFTP. Undoubtedly, the most useful plugin for those who often access the Internet and work with FTP servers. Features include the ability to connect to the server even through a proxy, which is not available in the standard FAR module; the ability to move and copy files on different servers without first downloading them to the user’s computer (read: several times faster and without using up traffic); support for unusual authorization modes; attachment processing and everything you could want from any commercial FTP client. Moreover, it is absolutely free. Wonderful, isn't it?

7-zip

The built-in support for archives in FAR through the MultiArc module is, of course, universal, but it is implemented exclusively through external programs, which is not always convenient and is certainly inferior in speed to separately implemented archivers. Plus the need to search executable files different archivers, and then configure them. To be honest, this doesn’t upset us very much, but if there is a more convenient solution, why not use it? 7-zip already contains support for ZIP, RAR, GZIP and TAR, which is enough for most users.

Registry Browser

Editing system Windows registry- an unpleasant, but, unfortunately, quite common operation. For example, you can get rid of the notorious error 1311 when installing your favorite game only by editing the registry. If you are too lazy to exit FAR and run regedit.exe- use Registry Browser. With it, you can edit any necessary data directly through the file manager interface. Moreover, copying keys and entire branches is no more difficult than duplicating files and folders.

Background File Copy

The main advantage of some paid file managers over FAR has always been stated to be background copying, which allows you to simultaneously perform a number of operations on files without launching several FAR windows. Well, this advantage is negated by the Background File Copy module, which allows our favorite program to do the same thing, not only with copying, but also moving, deleting and even editing files. The main thing is to carefully read the included installation instructions and note: the module does not work under Windows 98/Me.

Right Click + Right Click Menu Activator

The second (and final) useful feature of conventional file management programs is the standard Windows right-click context menu. In FAR, as you know, a banal file selection occurs instead. If you want to have access to the context menu, install both plugins: one of them will create the actual window with a list of commands, and the second will assign its call to the right mouse button. And don’t ask me why it couldn’t be done in one module - this is a mystery, shrouded in darkness. The only drawback is the lack of beautiful pictures next to some menu items.

WEB Editor

If you are more or less seriously interested in creating Web sites or this is your main occupation, then you probably know that almost all existing Html editors create so-called dirty code, which takes up more space and looks sloppy. As a rule, pages are polished in a regular text editor, for example in the same FAR. And together with the WEB Editor module, this operation has become even simpler and more convenient. Among its pleasant features is automatic insertion HTML tags and even PHP functions, convenient creation of embedded images, menus and various forms.

Plugin Calculator

The need for a convenient calculator with support for expressions, automatic translation There is always a result in hexadecimal, decimal and binary systems. This is especially true for those who are involved in programming or simply like to delve into saved game files for the purpose of slightly modifying them. Plugin Calculator is built into FAR and allows you not only to perform simple calculations, but also converts units of measures and weights from one system to another. This will certainly come in handy when solving physics problems and reading classic American literature, which is full of feet and inches.

FAR Mail

Those of you who for some reason do not use Outlook Express (well, let's say, for religious reasons) and who find alternative clients like The Bat or Mozilla Mail not “cool” enough, should install FAR Mail. The ability to send and receive letters in text and HTML formats in absolutely any encoding, support for attached files, The address book and many email accounts (SMTP, IMAP and, of course, POP3). Even filtering of letters is available. However, it is very difficult for us to imagine that someone would prefer this program to individual email clients.

Multimedia Viewer

The need to use external utilities to view pictures and video files is an unpleasant feature of almost all file managers. However, in our case, this problem can be solved very simply - just install the Multimedia Viewer module to see all the pictures directly in the FAR window. Moreover, the plugin even allows you to listen to melodies without leaving the program interface. The main thing: don't forget to download the additional library (located on our disk) to make it all work correctly.

Tetris

And finally, the most useless plugin for FAR. No, rather, even the most harmful. This add-on, as you probably guessed yourself, makes it possible to play the famous “Tetris” directly in the program window. In this case, work risks being put on the back burner until better times. Readers nostalgic for the DOS era will probably remember that the creation of Alexander Pa-zhitnov was built into the ancient DOS Navigator file manager and even then interfered with important matters.

FAR Manager: a brief introduction

This Norton-like file manager, created by the famous Russian programmer Evgeniy Roshal, reproduces the interface of the Norton Commander program familiar to many users. FAR is designed to work with files, directories and archives in Windows environment 95/98/Me and Windows 2000/NT and can function in both full screen and windowed mode. We will not sing the praises of this program, but, in our opinion, there is no more convenient file manager, at least for a person who at one time managed to seriously work with the Norton Commander program.

What should you give preference to?

Naturally, there is no need to introduce the well-known Norton Commander utility. Currently the latest version is Norton 2000, great problem solving 2000, but is not of particular interest to the Russian user. There are quite a few reasons for this, we will name only the most important: the package is not Russified; the font used does not contain Cyrillic, so Russian file and directory names cannot be used; internal

information base

The package does not include a single Russian program. In addition, it is important that the program takes up about 10 MB (version 1.0) on your hard drive, and is not cheap. In contrast to the Norton Commander utility, the latest version of the FAR program (FAR 1.70b3) occupies only a little more than 2 MB on disk, and the previous one (FAR 1.70b2) generally “weighed” half as much. FAR Manager is considered a shareware product. The cost of registering it is $25 (without registration the product works for 40 days), and citizens and organizations of the CIS and Baltic countries can register the program completely free of charge. To successfully register it (this is done by running the FAR program with the –r parameter: “FAR -r”), a user from the former USSR should enter the phrase “xUSSR registration” as the user name, and the registration code will be the day of the week when you decided to register the program (for example, the word “Monday” entered in lowercase Russian letters). Server addresses for FAR: http://www.rarsoft.com/, ftp://rarsoft.ti.sk/pub/FAR/ and ftp://rarsoft.ti.sk/pub/FAR/ (although not on of all of them the latest version appears at the same time). As for the software capabilities of FAR Manager, here too this utility files, works correctly with Russian letters, and the built-in editor allows you to switch between DOS and WIN encodings.

But we will not delve into a further listing of the program’s capabilities, since quite a lot has already been written about this.

This program has long taken its rightful place on the computers of professional specialists, and I would really like this utility to attract the attention of the rest of the user community. Once you install it on your computer, you will no longer want to part with it and will forever forget about Norton Commander and the disk space that you were once forced to share with it.

Plugins for FAR

Initially, the FAR Manager program was conceived as a shell with a modular structure (the presence of an API allows you to expand the capabilities of the shell through so-called plug-in modules). Plugins are modules that are called from FAR and use FAR functions and interface. Connecting a wide range of plugins means a significant increase in the functionality of the program. By default, the file manager is supplemented with several useful modules that support both working with archives and FTP servers, with a network and temporary panel for storing files and directories, and using all kinds of Russian encodings. The number of built-in plug-in modules is constantly increasing from version to version, and the number of functions provided by the program is growing accordingly. In addition, new plugins written by various authors appear regularly. Some of them are of greater interest, others of lesser interest, but their total number is constantly increasing (in currently There are about 407 different plugins known), and old versions of plugins are periodically replaced by new ones. In addition, both the author of FAR Manager and the authors of specific plugins listen to the wishes and suggestions of users and, in some cases, implement their ideas in new versions.

Several of the most useful plugins, as we have already mentioned, are automatically included in the FAR Manager distribution. Among the most commonly used, I would like to name a convenient print manager and the “File Register Conversion” module, which allows you to unify the change in the spelling of file names of the selected directory. The “Advanced Comparison” module is also very effective, which, unlike the “Compare Folders” command known from Norton, allows you to specify a number of additional parameters comparisons (time, content, size), as well as include or, conversely, exclude when comparing certain files and folders. The well-known FTP client plugin greatly simplifies the process of transferring files. Another interesting plugin has been added to the latest version of FAR (1.70b3) " Context menu conductor" (Fig. 1), however, most of the capabilities announced in it are not yet operational. At the same time, at least some of the functions of this module can be used quite widely in practice (for example, “Send”, “Cut”, “Copy” and “Paste”).

Most often, plugins implement various functions that not all users need. The relevance of using one or another additional module depends on the specific operating conditions. Therefore, you need to think carefully before installing all the plugins in a row. And only then, having carefully analyzed your own needs, you should install only the additional modules you really need, thereby reducing the amount of memory and resources used by the program.

Installation of any new plugin is very simple. You need to create a subdirectory Plugins in the FAR directory (by default C:\Program Files\Far) (in latest versions program, it is created automatically), inside it, create a special subdirectory for this plugin and copy all the plugin files into it. After these manipulations, you close the program as usual, and then launch it again, and the plugin starts working. You can call the desired plugin by pressing the F11 key and selecting it from the list that opens. Some plugins can also be selected using the Alt+F1 (Alt+F2) combination. To change settings installed plugins you will need to use the command F9FParametersFParameters of external modules and make the necessary adjustments (Fig. 2).

Are FAR plugins really necessary?

As already noted above, at the time of writing this article, 407 different plugins were officially registered on http://www.uic.nnov.ru/~ruiv/plugring/cgi-bin/downld.cgi (it’s probably impossible to find another software tool, for which such a number of them would be developed).

On the one hand, such a wide range of capabilities that plugins provide seems unnecessary, but on the other hand, this is precisely the main advantage of FAR Manager over other programs designed for working with files and directories. After all, the modular structure of FAR allows users to connect and disable exactly those plugins that are needed.

As for the variety of FAR plugins existing today, among them you can find literally everything - from Tetris, Reversi and a mini-calendar wishing you on your birthday, and ending with all kinds of clients. The “constellation” of plugins still includes those that are automatically included in the FAR Manager distribution or provide capabilities already implemented in the latest versions of the program (these plugins today may be of interest only to users of older versions of the file manager).

A certain part of the plugin database can be useful to a fairly wide range of users, however, most FAR plugins still implement quite specific capabilities, the need for which, due to the nature of working on a computer, does not arise for everyone. Therefore, a significant part of plugins is aimed only at users who face the same problems as the plugin authors themselves.

These plugins are designed for the common Windows, but previously unavailable in FAR Manager, use of the clipboard for copying and moving files and folders. It is permissible to copy (move) both from Windows to FAR and vice versa. In itself, such a feature greatly facilitates ordinary operations of copying and moving, however, it cannot be said that it is implemented very conveniently (if in Windows it is enough, as you know, to press the right button and select the desired action, then in FAR you have to perform the combination F11FClipboardFCopy (Move /Cut or Paste). True, you cannot demand the impossible from the authors of the plugins: this is exactly the way it is assumed based on the very logic of the plug-ins. This idea was originally implemented in the Clipboard Copy plugin, but was not fully developed: when trying to copy some files, the program. gives an error message file system

. Much later, the Clipboard Copy Alt plugin, similar in functionality, appeared, in which we did not encounter any error situations.

It is very likely that this feature will soon be implemented in the file manager itself through the built-in “Explorer Context Menu” module. Archives: clbcopy110.rar (158,296 bytes, author - Alexander Kotelovich) - Clipboard Copy plugin; works starting from version FAR1.60, clipcopy.rar (9361 bytes, author - Andrey Budko) - Clipboard Copy Alt plugin; works starting from version FAR1.65. File list creator Designed, as the name suggests, to create a file in the current directory containing a list of names of selected files. Although there is, of course, the usual possibility of copying the names of selected files to the clipboard by pressing Ctrl+Ins and then pasting from the clipboard into text file

, this plugin is also quite convenient in some cases. It allows you to copy files with paths (entering long paths manually for a group of files is an extremely dubious pastime), as well as supplement the created list of files with new files and process subfolders (of course, if they are selected). There are situations when it is simply irreplaceable (for example, the author of this article, as a teacher, often needs it when forming

independent tasks<->Lat", intended, naturally, for editing the file in the FAR text editor. The first module is responsible for searching and highlighting single and double paired brackets various types. The plugin was written for version FAR1.63, which did not provide such an option. Version 1.70b2 of the FAR program already includes a built-in Brackets plugin that performs the same functions. As for the Rus module<->Lat", then it can still only be connected manually and provides very useful opportunity recoding the selected block according to the QWERTY rule<->YTSUKEN, and such a need arises all the time if you simply forgot to switch the alphabet, and naturally you don’t have much desire to type the text again.

Archive: editswap.zip (16,800 bytes, author - Valentin Skirdin). Although the plugin was written for version FAR1.63, it works perfectly in subsequent versions of the program.

True, the function of searching and highlighting brackets turns out to be duplicated.

Uninstall

The plugin allows you to uninstall programs from FAR Manager in the same way as is usually done from the control panel (F11FUninstall programsFSelect program name). Archive: uinst11.zip (8,619 bytes, author - Dmitry Zhemerov); works starting from version FAR1.65.

FAR Navigator (ProxyFtp)

This module allows you to work not only with ftp servers (downloading or deleting files and directories from the server, copying your files to the server), like a standard FTP client plugin, but also with http servers (downloading from the server). If the connection is lost, files can be resumed. As for downloading files to a computer, there are, of course, more convenient options provided by download managers specially designed for this (there is a more conveniently organized resuming of downloads, and work according to a schedule, and downloading at the highest possible speed, etc. ), so this direction, in general, is not for everybody. And if we talk about the reverse operation, then the plugin’s functions should be of interest to a wide audience. To connect to the server, you need to perform a simple sequence of actions: F11ФFAR NavigatorEnter the name and other parameters of the server by pressing the combination Shift+F4. FAR by inserting templates for a fairly wide range of HTML tags (Fig. 4), CSS attributes, PHP structures (Fig. 5), etc. The process of completely creating Web pages in this way requires a considerable investment of time and effort and is not very inspiring, especially if you remember the ones specially designed for this purpose. software products. However, this module can be very useful in the process of debugging a page, when you need to make minimal changes, save and immediately check the result. In addition, some tags (necessary, for example, for the successful promotion of your page) still have to be inserted manually, and the Web Editor helps to significantly speed up the entire process.

To insert a tag, you must use the following sequence of actions: F11 ФHTML - Editor - select the desired tag. Archive: web10.zip (163,749 bytes, author - Alexander Ermolaev); works starting from version FAR1.7.

FAR plugins programming Help Encyclopedia of Developer

It is an encyclopedia in Russian PlugRinG Help for plugin developers. In principle, there is a help file in the FAR Manager distribution, but it is quite short. Therefore, the authors of this plugin decided to write a real Help encyclopedia, which examines in detail the technology of plugin development in relation to C/C++ and Pascal (structures, service functions, exported functions, etc.), gives specific recommendations in this area and provides numerous examples. In addition, articles from various authors regarding the pitfalls they encountered at various stages of developing their plugins are published here. In other words, this encyclopedia is a great help for those who decide to join the ranks of plugin authors. To launch the encyclopedia, just click on the pluginsr.chm file. Archive: help/pluginsr_chm.zip (394,619 bytes, authors - Valentin Skirdin, Igor Russkikh, Ivan Sintyurin, Kirill Kirichenko, Artem Nazarov, Vasily Moshninov and Dmitry Zhemerov) is focused on version FAR1.7b3.

The plugin is designed to work with the plugin database - PlugRing (Fig. 6). For the general user, it may be of interest to organize a targeted viewing of plugins by category. The advantage of this plugin is that you don’t need to study the entire plugin database long and hard if you need to find out, for example, what plugins exist for working with the Internet or with a printer.

However, the functionality of PlugRinGviewer is much broader: it includes downloading plugins from the database, updating, and adding new plugins. But this feature is aimed primarily at plugin authors. To connect to the database, you must first configure the plugin on your proxy server (F9F ParametersFParameters of external modulesFBase of PlugRing pluginsF Proxy settings), and then, having connected to the Internet, press the combination Alt+F1 (Alt+F2) and select “PlugRing Plugin Database” (or in a standard way through F11FBase of plugins PlugRing). Archive: plugring.zip (394,619 bytes, author - Vasily Moshninov), works starting from version FAR1.65.

For more complete information, we advise you to contact http://www.uic.

nnov.ru/~ruiv/plugring/cgi-bin/downld.cgi, where more than 400 plugins await you for free, as they say, for every taste.

ComputerPress 2"2002
June 9, 2001

Primus inter pares
(First among equals) In this note we will talk about programs (surprised?). If there be accurate then

we'll talk
about one program called Far.
Far is "File and Archive Manager", which translates to "I
I can handle your files and archives better than anyone.” At the beginning a little stories. The author of this program is Evgeniy Roshal, the same one who wrote
Rar archiver
. But unlike Rar, Far did not receive
full recognition in the West, but that our programmer
No one believes our programmers are capable of paying money.
Especially our programmers :) In order not to engage in self-deception,
for ex-USSR Far was free. As a result, Zhenya made a program
almost thank you until I got tired of it, after which I passed it on
sources to the Far Team group, collected from the best and most active

plugin writers. Now they are the ones who implement new features, fix
old bugs, and Zhenya plays the role of uh... producer? 🙂
Yes, by the way, about plugins. Far's main charm is that he
We can expand it to some extent using plugins. Plugins are written in
languages C, C++, Delphi, Virtual Pascal, and so on and so forth... Now

In principle, plugins are taken from the home pages of their authors. But
There is an open secret - all plugins can be found in one place -
Far PlugRinG.
Everything is very conveniently divided into categories, there is
search and the ability to find out which plugins appeared over the past
the last month or two. Their total number is so large (>350 according to my estimates),
that I decided to describe those of them that may be useful not only to me,
but also to anyone else.

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