xplr is a terminal UI based file explorer that aims to increase your terminal productivity by being a flexible, interactive orchestrator for the ever growing awesome command-line utilities that work with the file-system.
To achieve its goal, xplr strives to be a fast, minimal and more importantly, hackable file explorer.
xplr is not meant to be a replacement for the standard shell commands or the GUI file managers. Rather, it aims to integrate them all and expose an intuitive, scriptable, keyboard controlled, real-time visual interface, also being an ideal candidate for further integration, enabling you to achieve insane terminal productivity.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Embedded LuaJIT for portability and extensibility.
- A simple modal system based on message passing to control xplr session using:
- Keyboard inputs.
- Shell Commands.
- Lua Functions.
- Hooks.
- Easy, typesafe message passing with -m MSG or -M MSG subcommands.
- Readline-like input buffer with customizable behavior to read user inputs.
- Switchable recover mode that saves you from doing unwanted things when in a hurry.
- Customizable layouts with built-in panels. For example:
- Selection list to show you the selected paths in real-time.
- Help menu to show you the available keys bindings in each mode.
- Input & logs to read input and display logs.
- Filter and sort pipeline to show you the applied filters and sorters.
- Custom file properties with custom colors can be displayed in the table.
- FIFO manager to manage a FIFO file that can be used to integrate with previewers.
- Virtual root with –vroot and :v key bindings.
- Different quit options:
- Quit with success without any output (q).
- Quit with success and the result printed on stdout (enter).
- Quit with success and the present working directory printed on stdout (: q p).
- Quit with success and the path under focus printed on stdout (: q f).
- Quit with success and the selection printed on stdout (: q s).
- Quit with failure (ctrl-c).
Website: xplr.dev
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Arijit Basu
License: MIT License
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