Nelson is a graphical filesystem navigation tool with fuzzy search. I usually run it from p9p acme when I need to navigate large codebases with lots of directories.
search: any character you type adds to the fuzzy search and narrows the directory listing appropriately.[tab]: select the next item in the list. If you're at the last item, it will cycle you back to the beginning.[shift-tab]: backtab selects the previous item in the list. If you're at the first item, it cycles you to the last item.[backspace]: delete a chacter from your search term. If your search term is empty, this moves you up one directory level.[enter]: if there are search results, plumb selected result. If there are no results and query ends with/, create directory and descend into it. If there are no results, create file named by query.[esc]: quit.
Running the INSTALL script will build the Nelson sources, the seticon sources, make a Nelson.app bundle, and copy the appropriate files there. Then it copies the Nelson.app bundle to /Applications and creates a symlink at /usr/local/bin/nelson into /Applications/Nelson.app/Contents/MacOS/Nelson. If you want it to do something different, change the script.
- Only works on OS X.
- Heavily uses the text to make selections. In particular, filenames with two consecutive spaces will confuse the selection logic.
- The query text obeys strict stack discipline. Typing letters pushes, and backspace pops.
- The output listings are sorted by file
mtime. Sometimes this has awkward side effects. SeeTODOfor details. - I don't really know Objective-C. This code surely sucks.
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