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AGPL-3.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-AGPL--3.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)\n\nScout replaces Finder for power users who want true cut-and-paste, tabbed\nbrowsing with session memory, and keyboard-first navigation.\n\n![Scout](docs/screenshot.png)\n\n## Features\n\n- True cut/copy/move (Cmd+X/C/V) with undo support\n- Tabbed browsing with per-tab selection and scroll memory\n- Inline preview pane for images, text, audio, video, PDFs, and archives\n- Persistent per-folder view settings (list, icon grid, column browser)\n- Command palette (Cmd+Shift+P)\n- Named workspaces -- save and restore window layouts\n- Session restore -- tabs, selections, and scroll positions on relaunch\n- Scoped search with searchfs(2) for instant filename matching\n- Batch rename\n- Get Info panel with permissions editor\n- Connect to Server for network volumes\n- Global hotkey (Opt+Space) to summon Scout from anywhere\n\n## Install\n\n### Homebrew\n\n```\nbrew install --cask jackspirou/tap/scout\n```\n\nTo 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