neoneye / newton-commander

Dual-pane file manager with tabs for macOS

Newton Commander

A dual-pane file manager with tabs for Mac OS X, inspired by Total Commander

Newton Commander is still in the very early stages of development, all bug reports, feature requests, and general feedback are greatly appreciated!

Download

Newton Commander.zip

1. Unzip it.
2. Drag it into your Applications folder.

Screenshots

Features

• Each tab runs in its own child process.
• Closing a tab kills the child process.
• A tab can be started as a different user, allowing you to see otherwise restricted files.

See Keyboard shortcuts

Contact

Simon Strandgaard

• http://github.com/neoneye
• http://twitter.com/neoneye
• [email protected]

newton-commander's Issues

Preferences - Change color preset causes crash

Next time the app is started then it uses the selected color preset.

It used to work in the past, so it's maybe easy to fix.

Move operation (F6 on the keyboard)

Currently F6 does nothing.

Challenges

• Move files within the same disk.
• Move files across disks.

The code is located in the NCMoveSheet.m file.

Arrow keys only navigate all the way up/down a listing

Selecting a file and pressing the up key will move the selection to the top file. Selecting a file and pressing the down key will move the selection to the bottom file. Selecting files which are neither top nor bottom of the list is not possible with the arrow keys.

Migrate to ARC

Navigate into folder by double-click

It doesn't currently respond to clicks on a folder in a tab.

Use the keyboard instead. The enter key navigates into the folder. The backspace key navigates out of the folder.

+10 seconds to start child processes on Mavericks

When starting the app on Mavericks the spinners are visible in the tabs. The tabs are shown after a long delay (+10 seconds).

Double-click doesn't open a folder

Double-clicking doesn't open a folder, but enter
return does

Here's a video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XQqSFVS6MZm9WjZR8

NCInfoPanel visible: arrow up/down must invoke -analyzePath:

Currently the info panel only reloads when you press F4 two times.
It is really annoying that I have to press F4 so many times.

Optimal if it could reload itself when I move the cursor up/down.

How do I bind to the y-index ?

Remove com.apple.quarantine xattr from files

I often need to remove the com.apple.quarantine xattr from a group of files. Like this

sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine FOLDERNAME

It would be nice to have a shortcut for this.

missing Terminal.h

I tried commenting this import statement out

-(BOOL)openTerminalWithPath:(NSString_)aPath {
@Try {
/_ TerminalApplication* terminal = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:@"com.apple.Terminal"];
[terminal activate];
[terminal open:[NSArray arrayWithObject:aPath]];*/
return YES;
} @catch(id ue) {
return NO;
} @finally {
return NO;
}
}

but still seeing

sdef: couldn't get sdef for /Users/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app (error -43)
2014-08-24 13:26:05.563 defaults[65727:1200293]
The domain/default pair of (/Users/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Info, CFBundleIdentifier) does not exist
sdp: option `--bundleid' requires an argument
usage: sdp -f{ahmst} [-o directory | file | -] [options...] [file]
Command /bin/sh failed with exit code 2

Can you please commit Terminal.h?

Copy/move operations: run as a separate process

The copy/move operations are running in the same process as the active tab.

This should instead be run in a separate process, so that move/copy between folders with different permissions are possible.

Most of the toolbar buttons don't work

When I click one of these buttons in the toolbar, it depresses but does not trigger its action:

• Help make sense of the current item (F1)
• User menu (F2)
• View the content of the file (F3)
• Edit the content of the file (F4)

Here's a video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XQqSFVS6MZm9WjZR8

Create NewtonCommander.zip for others to download

Currently it requires the people have Xcode and cocoapods installed.

Many permissions dialogs appear

On first run, many permissions dialogs appear, asking for access to Contacts, Calendar, Photos libraries, etc.
Perhaps request full disk access first?

Select multiple files with the mouse

Currently files can only be selected using the keyboard.

SHIFT arrow_up       select current row and move cursor one line up
SHIFT arrow_down     select current row and move cursor one line down
CMD A                select all/none

Eliminate warnings in PSMTabBarControl

The current PSMTabBarControl.xcodeproj used generates a few warnings.

A: Either find a newer version of PSMTabBarControl.

B: Or update PSMTabBarControl my self.

Arrow keys move several lines

Newton commander looks quite promising ! Thanks for the work.

But I immediately ran into an issue that makes it unusable for me :

The arrow keys (up / down arrow) move the focus like 4 to 8 rows at a time. impossible to select a file between the first and the 6th for example.

This kills the buzz for me since the main advantage of orthodox file managers is to be able to operate efficiently using the keyboard.

I am using Yosemite on a MBP 15 inches retina.

F1, F2, F3, F4 has stopped working

This worked before OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Page down when hitting the bottom, behaves like arrow down

In the past, before OS X 10.10 the cursor jumped to the bottom.

For some reason it has stopped working. Instead the page down behaves as arrow down, just moving a single row at a time.

NCInfoPanel visible: ESC should dismiss the panel

This way the F4 key becomes available for other cool things.

Inside the info-panel I would like to have 2 tabs.

1. basic info (editable)
2. verbose info (readonly)

The F4 key toggles between these 2 tabs.

AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges is deprecated. Instead use SMJobBless

It triggers a warning:

AppDelegate.m:264:7: 'AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges' is deprecated: first deprecated in OS X 10.7

Instead SMJobBless should be used. See this sample project.

Is SMJobBless() still the mechanism to gain root access on Mavericks?

Codesign the app and the worker

The first time the app is started it is blocked by Mavericks and requires manually unblocking it. The user has to follow a procedure of 6 step in order to get it running.

Optimally would be just to:

1. download the zip
2. unzip
3. open and it's running

See Distributing Applications Outside the Mac App Store

I think I'm going to need an installer, because NewtonCommander has a worker process.

software update

Sparkle

Sadly Sparkle doesn't work with Xcode 5 and 64bit.

http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/
https://github.com/andymatuschak/Sparkle

Page up/down doesn't preserve cursor y position

In the past, before OS X 10.10 Yosemite, the cursor y position was preserved during page up/down.

However this broke with Yosemite.

Investigate why.

Window seems to reload/flash often

It seems that the window is reloading often, resulting in parts of it twitching/flashing.

Here's a video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XQqSFVS6MZm9WjZR8