About
Minimal terminal file manager/navigator
Features
Minimalism
Nav does not perform operations such as deleting files (rm
), previewing files (cat
), etc and does not provide an emulator for a command-line interface. These operations are better left for the user's existing command-line to handle. These operations can be done quickly with the copy selections to environmental variable or clipboard feature.
Nav does, however, allow copying and pasting/moving around files because that would be inconvenient using the above method.
Installation
go install github.com/lezhou8/nav@latest
Key binds
Key |
Description |
hjkl or arrow keys |
Basic navigation |
g, G |
Go to top or bottom |
~ |
Go to home directory |
. |
Toggle hidden files |
/ |
Filter search |
esc |
Exit filter search |
enter |
Accept filter search |
space |
Select |
y |
Copy/yank |
d |
Cut |
p |
Paste |
q |
Quit |
cd
on exit and copy file selections to environmental variable
Zsh/Bash
# Call this function whatever you like
# Add to .zshrc, .bashrc, or equivalent
navcd() {
nav "$@"
cd "$(cat "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:=${HOME}/.cache}/nav/.nav_d")" # this line allows cd on exit
export N="$(cat "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:=${HOME}/.cache}/nav/.nav_env")" # this line saves file selection to $N
}
# You can bind it to a key
bindkey -s "^n" "navcd\n"
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Dependencies
Acknowledgement