The first five minutes

Open the app#

A saved session restores each pane's host, path, sort order, dotfile setting, and focused side. Directory entries are read again because they are absent from the session file. A first launch starts with unpointed panes.

The built-in host local addresses this Mac. Point a pane at local:~ to browse your home directory.

Load an SSH host#

Open the pane's host menu and choose an alias from ~/.ssh/config. The menu follows Include directives and omits aliases marked with # palana: hide. A typed address can still use a hidden alias.

Settings (⌘,) provides an add-host form when the config has no suitable block. See Configuring SSH for keys and host entries.

Point a pane#

Click the pane address or press ⇧⌘G, then enter koan:/srv. Use koan:~ for the configured user's remote home. Bare /path and ~/path forms address this Mac.

Addresses and pasted paths lists every accepted form and the missing-path recovery rules.

Browse#

j/k or arrows move the cursor, h/l leave or enter a directory, Enter opens a directory or file, and Tab changes panes. Space changes selection and advances one row.

Run a copy#

Point the destination pane, select source entries, and press y. The panel shows source, destination, size, collisions, route, transport, and commands. Press Enter to run that plan or Esc to dismiss it.

Output appears in the panel during enactment. Control-C terminates the running command, while plain ` hides the panel and lets it continue.

Open a shell#

⌘` starts a shell on the focused host in the pane's current directory. The same chord moves the keyboard back to the panes. A later summon of that host's shell resumes its existing working directory and process state.