vindarel / cl-fm

A File Manager in Common Lisp, using cl-cffi-gtk

CL-FM

Overview

cl-fm is a gtk-based file manager, written in Common Lisp. It features

• mouse operations
• emacs-like commands
• color-coding and tagging of files and directories
• hackability in Lisp.

Work in progress. Many unimplemented features. Changes often. Not ready for prime time.

License

BSD license

Depends on

• cl-cffi-gtk
• gtk-emacs-like-input

Quickstart

Start by cloning this repo and gtk-emacs-like-input to a place where quicklisp will see it.

(ql:quickload :cl-fm)
(in-package :cl-fm)
(test :dir "...") ;put your test directory here - but be careful and use a scrap dir.

Status

02-Oct-2016

Made some fixes with handling of filenames. It's still a mess and should be moved to a separate file, perhaps. But for now it works. The root directory is kept as a namestring (truename), so the final slash is there. Filenames are kept in the model, and therefore have to be namestrings. There are a few places that merge and manipulate names (activation, going up in hierarchy, etc).

Added folder icons and removed final slash in folder names in model - truename does the trick.

01-Oct-2016

Added <F5> reload binding.

Added a rudimentary in-place renamer. It works, but due to internal issues with directory names ending with a slash, directory renaming is wacky. It works only when no final slash is added in edit, and F5 must be pressed afterwards. I will rework internal storage issues tomorrow.

KEY	BINDING
<F2>	Edit selected file (single selection only)
<F5>	Reload current directory
<LEFT>	Open parent directory
^	Open parent directory
<C-0>	Set Q to 0 (default)
<C-1>	Set Q to 1 (red)
<C-2>	Set Q to 2
<C-3>	Set Q to 3
<C-4>	Set Q to 4
<C-5>	Set Q to 5 (default)
<RET>	Activate: for folders, open here; for files, open with external application (for now VLC)

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28-Sept-2016

Added in-place editing of filenames with F2. As with everything else, no changes are made to the filesystem - file-actions.lisp is just reporting requests. Setting q will write to xattr of the file.

Here is what works:

KEY	BINDING
<F2>	Edit selected file (single selection only)
<LEFT>	Open parent directory
^	Open parent directory
<C-0>	Set Q to 0 (default)
<C-1>	Set Q to 1 (red)
<C-2>	Set Q to 2
<C-3>	Set Q to 3
<C-4>	Set Q to 4
<C-5>	Set Q to 5 (default)
<RET>	Activate: for folders, open here; for files, open with external application (for now VLC)

Double-click is also activate.

Also, drag and drop (except for dragging out, as mentioned elsewhere)

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23-Sept-2016

• added color q tagging with <C-0> to <C-5>. This is an early test, but I've been wanting to color-tag files since early Macintosh days. It seems there is no file manager that does it, much less one that does it easily. So, <C-0> clears color tagging, and <C-1> to <C-5> let you set a color between green and red for quality or whatever. For now, I am just colorizing the size field as color background breaks the stripy splendor of the tree control. See the screenshot...
• <UP> and <DOWN> arrows are bound to eli's instant keymap, with a function that just returns nil so GTK can take over the scrolling.
• drag and drop is almost ready for action - try dragging files around and see the textual representation of the intended action. Seems to be correct for copy, move, etc and also outputs file lists.

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22-Sept-2016... Works:

• Directory navigation by double-clicking directories;
• Also, left arrow goes up to parent - as well as ^.

Does not work

• dragging to other apps, as cl-cffi-gtk is broken. See this issue - basically, there is no way to set selection data when someone requests it.
• Drag and drop are close, just reporting for now.

Stupid

• double-clicking files starts vlc, for now - will dispatch on type soon.
• drag and drop are a little clunky with selections.