About

Minimal terminal file manager/navigator

Features

• Fuzzy filter searching
• Vi key bindings
• Copy, cut and pasting
• cd on exit
• Selected files copied to environmental variable and clipboard on exit

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.

For multiple selections you may have to do this:

echo $N | xargs cat # replace cat with program of your choice

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"

Built with

• Go
• bubbletea
• bubbles
• lipgloss
• fuzzy
• golang-set
• clipboard

Dependencies

• Go

Acknowledgement

• cd on exit fff
• Fuzzy filter search bubbles list
• Hidden fils file picker