kamiyaa/joshuto
Joshuto
Joshuto is a keyboard-driven terminal user interface file manager built with Rust. It functions as a Vim-like file explorer, providing a text-based environment for browsing directories and performing filesystem operations through modal navigation and cursor-based movements.
The project distinguishes itself through a side-by-side column view that allows for terminal file previewing, including the rendering of image thumbnails and file contents. It supports a highly customizable workflow where users can define their own keybindings, visual themes, and terminal styles through external configuration files.
The application covers a broad range of filesystem management capabilities, including asynchronous file processing for moving and deleting items, fuzzy file searching using glob and regex patterns, and tabbed directory management for maintaining multiple workspace contexts. It also integrates with system MIME-type databases to launch external applications and utilizes XDG-compliant caches to accelerate visual previews.
Features
- Terminal File Managers - Provides a keyboard-driven file management application optimized for terminal environments.
- Keyboard-Driven Workflows - Implements a high-speed interaction paradigm based on custom keyboard shortcuts to avoid mouse usage.
- Terminal File Explorers - Provides a full-featured terminal-based file explorer with enhanced directory listing and navigation capabilities.
- Fuzzy-Filterable Lists - Provides an interactive search interface that uses fuzzy matching to narrow directory listings.
- Directory Navigators - Facilitates rapid navigation through the filesystem using fuzzy-finding, bookmarks, and tabbed contexts.
- Persistent Thumbnail Caches - Renders image and non-image thumbnails using graphics protocols and persistent disk caches.
- Filesystem Operations - Implements fundamental filesystem operations including copying, cutting, deleting, and symbolic link creation.
- TUI File Manipulations - Implements a text-based user interface for performing filesystem operations like copying and moving files.
- File Previewers - Ships a built-in previewer to inspect file contents without opening a full application.
- Image Previews - Renders image files directly inside a terminal preview pane using graphics protocols and external shell scripts.
- Terminal File Previews - Implements a side-pane that displays inline multimedia previews for supported file types within the terminal.
- File Manager Previews - Displays file contents and metadata in a side-by-side column view while browsing directories.
- View Filtering - Hides files that do not match specific substring, glob, or regex patterns to narrow the directory view.
- Stateful Tab Managers - Maintains multiple independent directory states and cursor positions within a tabbed workspace.
- MIME-Type File Launchers - Launches the appropriate external application for a file based on its detected MIME type.
- File Association Handlers - Maps file extensions to specific external applications for consistent file handling.
- Filename Pattern Matching - Enables locating files within the current directory using globbing and regular expression patterns.
- Asynchronous File Operations - Implements asynchronous file transfers and movements in the background to ensure the user interface remains responsive.
- CLI Tool Behavior Customization - Provides settings to modify the operational behavior and visual styling of the command-line interface.
- Directory Bookmarks - Allows users to map specific keys to filesystem paths for rapid navigation between frequent directories.
- External Application Integrations - Launches system-defined external applications to open files directly from the terminal interface.
- Fuzzy File Finders - Utilizes fuzzy matching and glob patterns to quickly locate and select files within the system.
- Fuzzy Search Interfaces - Implements a fuzzy-finding interface to quickly locate and select files via partial string matching.
- Interactive File Selection - Supports marking files for action via manual toggles, pattern matching, or interactive fuzzy finding.
- Path-Based Command Execution - Executes external shell programs by passing the currently selected file or directory paths as arguments.
- File List Sorting - Orders directory listings by name, size, or modification time with configurable case sensitivity.
- Tabbed Directory Workspaces - Maintains multiple directory views in separate tabs to track different working locations.
- Application Behavior Configurations - Provides external configuration files to customize keybindings, themes, and file associations.
- Hidden File Managers - Includes a toggle to show or hide concealed system files and directories in the current view.
- Keyboard Command Mapping - Translates physical keyboard presses into internal application commands to decouple hardware inputs from business logic.
- Terminal Styling - Configures terminal output colors and text attributes to visually distinguish between different file types.
- Visual Style Customization - Allows modification of the overall appearance through external definitions of colors, themes, and icons.
- Keyboard Shortcut Mapping - Enables users to redefine keyboard shortcuts to optimize navigation and file management.
- Developer Tools - Ranger-like terminal file manager.
- File Management and Navigation - Ranger-like terminal file manager.
- File Managers - Ranger-like terminal file manager.
- File Management - Ranger-inspired terminal file manager.
