walkEd

Simple terminal file manager

Features

walkEd can:

• Navigate through the filesystem
• Duplicate, copy and paste files/directories,
• Create, remove and rename files/directories.
• Select multiple entries and do the operations mentioned above in bulk (except renaming, for now)
• Split the view into multiple panes for editing multiple directories at the same time
• Do incremental search

Work in progress/planned features:

• Fuzzy search
• Exhaustive support for symlinks

Build Instructions

  $ git clone https://github.com/serd223/walked.git
  $ cd walked
  $ cargo install --path .

For you to be able to change your directory upon quitting walkEd, you will need to add something along the lines of the following script to your autoexec script (.bashrc, Powershell_profile.ps1, etc):

# Example Powershell profile
function wd() {
  cd $(walked.exe)
}

Now, you can use the wd command to use walkEd and change your working directory with it.

Configuration

walkEd uses a simple TOML file for configuration. You can optionally supply the path to your configuration file as a command line argument to the program. (This would typically be done in your autoexec script mentioned above)

Example

  $ walked myconf.toml # uses default configuration if myconf.toml couldn't be found

Writing your configuration file

For a complete list of configurable options, see Config in config.rs.

If an option isn't specified inside your configuration file, the default value will be used.

Boolean and string options can be written like normal. For example:

# my_conf.toml
normal_mode_text = "NORM"
show_entry_number = false

Keybindings can be described with a very simple string format like this:

new_file = "C-N" # Control + N, typing a lowercase 'n' wouldn't work in this case
quit = "cA-Esc" # Control + Alt + Escape
# Both control and alt modifiers can be uppercase or lowercase, so this would be valid too:
# quit = "Ca-Esc" # Control + Alt + Escape
# or this:
# quit = "ca-Esc" # Control + Alt + Escape
# and so on

# Space can be written as-is
dir_walk = " "
# It can be used with any modifier just like other characters
dir_up = "S- " # Shift + Space

# Note that Control + Shift style bindings like this:
copy = "CS-c" # Control + Shift + C
# Only work on Windows due to the Console API there. On any other systems using standard
# terminal protocols, terminals can't distinguish between Control and Control + Shift modifiers.

# Please note that characters that have uppercase/lowercase variants may not work properly with the
# shift modifier as the shift key is commonly used to reverse the capitalization of the typed letter

# Here is the list of supported 'special' keys: (these are case sensitive, so you can't write "up" in your config)
# Backspace
# Enter
# Left
# Right
# Up
# Down
# Home
# End
# PageUp
# PageDown
# Tab
# BackTab
# Delete
# Insert
# Esc
# Function keys can be written normally (F6, F9, F11, etc)

Default Keybindings

new_file: C-n

new_directory: C-b

duplicate: C-d

remove: C-x

copy: C-y

paste: C-p

incremental_search: /

next_search_result: n

prev_search_result: N

up: k

select_up: K

pane_up: C-k

split_pane_up: A-k

down: j

select_down: J

pane_down: C-j

split_pane_down: A-j

left: h

pane_left: C-h

split_pane_left: A-h

right: l

pane_right: C-l

split_pane_right: A-l

insert_mode: i

normal_mode: Esc

close_active_pane: C-q

quit: q

dir_walk: Space

dir_up: x