iPad and iPhone Duo
On an iPad, AirSCP uses the room it has: a sidebar with your open servers, a workspace for each, several windows, the keyboard and the pointer. AirSCP follows the width of its window, not the device. A narrow window (next to another app, or an iPhone Duo folded) looks as on an iPhone.
The sidebar and a server’s workspace
- Tap the sidebar button next to the tabs at the top. The sidebar lists Servers, Files, Terminal, Transfers and Search, and under Open, each open server.
- Tap an open server. Its workspace shows:
- the server’s files and On iPad next to each other: drag between them to copy;
- the server’s terminal under the files: tap the bar with its name, or drag the bar up. Drag the bar to change the terminal’s height;
- in that bar, + (New Terminal), Full Window, and Transfers, which shows the transfers on the right.
- Touch and hold an open server in the sidebar for Open in New Window or Disconnect.
In a wide window, such as an iPad on its side:
- Transfers show on the right by themselves when a copy starts.
- A file you edit opens next to the files, not over them.
Full Window
Full Window (⇧⌘F) gives the terminal, or the editor next to the files, the whole window: for work with a keyboard. Where there is room, the editor then shows the lines you changed next to the text. Exit Full Window gives the window back. For the editor, Esc does too. In the terminal, Esc goes to the shell (for vim): press ⇧⌘F again.
Several windows
Touch and hold AirSCP’s icon in the Dock or on the Home Screen, then tap New Window. Or touch and hold an open server in the sidebar and tap Open in New Window.
All windows share the servers, connections, transfers, tray and terminals: a new window doesn’t log in again. Each window shows what you choose there: its own tab, folders and terminal. When you close a window, the others keep everything it opened.
Keyboard shortcuts
With a keyboard, hold ⌘ to see them.
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| ⌘1, ⌘2, ⌘3, ⌘4 | Show Servers, Files, Terminal, Transfers |
| ⌘K | Search |
| ⌘T | New Terminal on the server in front |
| ⇧⌘F | Full Window for the terminal or the editor |
In Files, on the side you used last:
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| ⌘R | Read the folder again |
| ⌘N | New Folder |
| Return or ⌘↓ | Open the selected folder or file |
| ⌘↑ | Go up one folder |
| ⌘A | Select everything in the folder (while you select) |
| ⌘C, then ⌘V | Copy the selected items into the folder shown, on either side |
| ⌘⌫ | Delete the selected items (AirSCP asks first) |
In the terminal, the keys go to the shell: arrows, Esc, Tab, Control keys, function keys, Home, End, Page Up and Page Down. ⌘C, ⌘V and ⌘A copy, paste and select all.
Pointer
With a trackpad or a mouse:
- Over the terminal, the pointer is a text cursor. Scroll to go back through the output. Right-click for Copy, Paste and Select All.
- Right-click a file, a server or a transfer for the menu that touch and hold shows.
- Drag files between the two sides, and to and from other apps.
iPhone Duo
Folded, an iPhone Duo shows AirSCP as an iPhone does: one side of Files at a time. Open, it shows AirSCP as an iPad does: both sides next to each other, the sidebar and the workspaces.
Folding, opening or turning it keeps what you were doing: the folder, the selection, the scroll position, the terminal and the copies that run. A server’s workspace goes on in Files while the iPhone is folded, and comes back when you open it.