Far Manager Plugins 90%

Solution: Hold Shift while starting Far. This disables all plugins. Then run PluginsManager and disable or uninstall the last plugin you added.

FAR Manager’s plugin API allows developers to add virtually any feature without modifying the core. Plugins integrate seamlessly as new panels, viewer/editor extensions, or background services. For power users, plugins transform FAR from a file manager into a universal control center.

Q: Plugin crashes on startup (Access Violation). far manager plugins

Q: Colorer isn't highlighting my code.

Q: I see "Plugin not found" after installing via plug. Solution: Hold Shift while starting Far

Q: How do I uninstall a plugin?

| Plugin | Description | | :--- | :--- | | AutoComplete | Provides intelligent code completion in the editor. Reads open file buffers and offers word completion. Supports custom dictionaries for specific APIs. | | Align | Helps align code blocks, CSV columns, or plain text. You select a block, press a hotkey, and it lines up assignments or delimiters perfectly. A small miracle for clean code. | | Editor: Show White Space | Displays tabs, spaces, and line breaks as visible symbols. Crucial for YAML or Python where indentation errors break everything. | | Grep | A graphical front-end to the grep command (via FARFind or the standalone MultiArc family). Searches inside files across entire directory trees with regex support. Think of it as a supercharged Find in Files. | Q: Colorer isn't highlighting my code

These plugins treat non-folder structures as virtual file systems.

Impact: Eliminates context switching between archiver tools and file manager.

| Plugin | Description | | :--- | :--- | | DrawLine | Draws ASCII/Unicode lines and boxes in the editor. Perfect for creating README tables or comment separators. | | SimpleIndent | Smart indentation (increase/decrease) for code blocks. Works with tabs or spaces. | | OpenViever | Allows you to define custom file associations for viewing. For example, automatically view .log files with syntax highlighting or render Markdown as HTML inside a viewer pane. | | MacroEditor | Far has a powerful macro system (recorded with Ctrl+Shift+.). This plugin gives you a proper editor for your macros, with syntax help and debugging. |

“Far Manager Plugins: Extending a Classic File Manager for Power Users”