File Explorer

Browse your workspace as a file tree, and open, create, rename, copy, move and delete files and folders without leaving the editor.

What you can do

• Move around your workspace in a file and folder tree, and open a file by clicking it or pressing Enter.
• Create, rename and duplicate files and folders.
• Delete a file or folder after a confirmation that warns you when unsaved changes would be lost.
• Copy, cut and paste files and folders. A folder is copied with everything inside it.
• Paste straight from the system clipboard. A screenshot becomes a real image file, copied text becomes a text file, and a file copied in Finder arrives under its own name.
• Reveal a file in Finder, or open it in the integrated terminal.
• Spot the files you have changed. Git colours the name and ends the row with a letter, such as M for modified or U for untracked, and a folder gets a dot when something inside it changed. These are the same letters and colours the Source Control panel uses.

Getting started

Open the Explorer from the activity bar. It opens on the workspace you already have loaded. Right-click any file or folder for the full list of actions.

While the Explorer is focused, the usual shortcuts work: Enter opens, F2 renames, Delete deletes, Cmd/Ctrl+C, X and V copy, cut and paste, Cmd/Ctrl+N makes a new file, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N a new folder, and F5 refreshes the tree.

Settings

You can hide dot files, sort entries by name, type or last modified, and turn the git colours off.

Good to know

• Nothing is ever overwritten. A name that already exists gets the Finder treatment, so report.txt arrives as report copy.txt, then report copy 2.txt.
• Hidden files are shown by default, because Studio writes its own .punica/ and .github/ folders and hiding dot files hides them too.
• Pasting an image, or copying one inside the tree, needs a desktop build with binary file support. On an older build the explorer tells you so rather than writing a damaged file.
• Opening a file in the integrated terminal is only offered in the desktop app.
• A file that is brand new to the workspace appears in the tree on the next refresh.