CFFM is a minimalist terminal-based file manager. Heavily inspired by similar terminal based file managers such as ranger and lf, CFFM seeks to provide a clean, snappy, and customizable file managing experience while adherign to a minimalist, Unix-like philosophy.
-After being in development for two months (on and off), CFFM is officially released, with all of it's basic functionality tested and working.
-Added cut/copy/paste and selection functionality.
-Fixed file previews.
-Various bug fixes
You can download a static "just works" binary from the releases section.
Dependencies:
'libncurses-dev' (Debian)
Compiling:
make for a slim, dynamically linked binary.
make release for a static binary.
Installing:
make install
sudo make uninstall
You can modify any #define value in config.h to your liking. When done, simply re-compile and run.
By pressing b by default you can show/hide the border. Of course you can configure this to your liking in config.h.
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CFFM's design philosophy was inspired heavily by the Suckless Philosophy. Whether or not experienced hackers would consider CFFM truely "Suckless" or "KISS" is debatable, however one thing is for sure, and that is that CFFM is minimalist and not bloated. I have been using ranger for about a year now, and I couldn't help but notice that it was lagging behind and sometimes not responsive. This is because it was written in python, and was calling external scripts to execute commands. I was interested switching to the file manager lf, however it too used external configuration files and building it required installing golang. I always liked Suckless' dwm and st due to their configuration being compiled directly into the program, as well as for the fact that they are extremely portable and light programs. So, I decided to write my own terminal file manager, with simplicity and portability in mind.