Strider is a file system navigator:

• to reduce keystrokes during navigation.
• to remember and reuse the behavior and choices.
• to be minimalistic until it's needed to do more.
• to create new paths without annoying asking.

Install

Note before installation!

• Project status: proof of concept. No guarantees, use it carefully until you get 1.0.0 version.
• Read the text below about using / when copying or moving file and directories.

Install or update:

pip install -U git+https://github.com/anki-code/strider

Usage

Run strider and start striding:

strider

In the xonsh shell you can load xontrib with s alias that works fast and allows to change directory using strider:

xontrib load strider
s

Keys

Basic:

• Left - move to parent directory.
• Right - move to the selected directory.
• Space - open menu for the current file or directory.
• Enter - open file or directory using OS associations.
• Esc - quit.

Additional:

• Shift ~ - jump to the home directoy.
• Control j - jump to path. You can jump into new path and then create it.
• Control d - jump to directory from history.
• Control + - copy path to the current directory.

Using / when copying or moving.

Strider was created to reduce keystrokes. So remember two things:

• Any new path will be created automatically. When you copy the file example.txt to /tmp/some/new/path/ the path /tmp/some/new/path/ will be created automatically.
• If you copy directory /tmp/dir1 and the target path ends with / e.g. /tmp/other/ then the dir1 will be putted into /tmp/other/dir.
• If you copy directory /tmp/dir2 and the target path ends with directory name e.g. /tmp/other then the dir2 will be merged with /tmp/other. Existing files will be overwritten.

Good to know

• Copy the current path in MacOS Finder: Option Command C
• Jump to path in MacOS Finder: Command Shift G

Known issues

Tested only on Mac OS

Current version of strider is using and testing on Mac OS. It will be good to test and fix for Linux and Windows.