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Keyboard shortcut to select address bar in Total Commander

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What's the keyboard shortcut to focus/select the address bar in Total Commander?

I cannot find an easy way to get my cursor into the directory/address bar to immediately start typing a network path or directory, I have to click once or twice to get it editable.

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Press Shift+F6 while focus is on [..] item.

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Or assign the command cm_EditPath to a shortcut, an alias, a button or a menu item.

Source Keyboard shortcut to quickly type into Directory/address bar




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Following the advice from https://chodounsky.net/2013/08/02/access-total-commander-path-with-shortcut, here's how you can set Ctrl+L to go to the address bar in Total Commander:

Configuration->Options->Misc->Redefine hotkeys, then set to Ctrl+L, choose the command to be cm_EditPath, and click the tick icon:

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