eFar

This package provides FAR-like file manager for Emacs.

Usage

Package is not available in MELPA yet (there is a plan to publish it in nearest future, though).

To start eFar just load file efar.el and type M-x efar.

When Efar is called with universal argument, default-directory of actual buffer is automatically opened in left panel - C-u M-x efar.

Requirements

Emacs 26.1 or newer.

Features

Navigation

move cursor - <up>, <down>, <left>, <right>
go to first/last file in current directory - <home>/<end> or <C-left>/<C-right>
enter directory under cursor - RET
switch to other panel - TAB
fast navigation to the file with specific name in current directory - just start typing any part of file name (C-s/C-r to go to next/previous occurrence, C-g quit fast search mode)
go to the given directory - C-c c d

Appearance

change mode double-panel <-> single-panel - C-c v M
change number of columns in current panel - C-c v + or C-c v -
change file display mode (short, long, detailed) - C-c v m

Selecting disks (Windows) or mount points (Unix)

display list of available disks (Windows) or mount points (Unix) - C-c f d

Edit and auto preview

open file under cursor in other buffer and switch to that buffer - <f4>
open file under cursor in other buffer and keep eFar buffer actual - <f3>
open file under cursor in external application - <M-f4>
directories and files of predefined types are automatically opened in other buffer when navigating through the file list - this function can configured via customization

File operations

mark file under cursor - <insert>
unmark all marked files - <C-insert>
copy marked files (or file under cursor if no files marked) - <f5>
move marked files (or file under cursor if no files marked) - <f6>
delete marked files (or file under cursor if no files marked) - <f8>
create new directory - <f7>
create new file - C-x C-f
show statistic (size, number of file and directories) for the directory under cursor - C-c c s
run ediff for selected files - C-c c e
copy to the clipboard path to the file under cursor - C-c c p

Changing sort order, filtering

change sort order and direction - C-c f s
set/remove filtering by file mask - C-c f f

File search

start search in current directory - <M-f7>
display last search results - <S-f7>
go to the file from search result list - RET
show buffer with detailed search results - <C-M-f7>
it's possible to search for text in files using simple string or Emacs regular expressions
when opening file from the file search results an incremental search is automatically activated for the searched text
no external tools used for search functionality, it's completely implemented using pure elisp
multiprocessing used when searching for text inside files

Last visited directories

display list of last visited directories - C-c c h
go to the directory from the list of last visited directories - RET

Bookmarks

add file/directory under cursor to bookmark list - C-c c B
display bookmarks - C-c c b
remove item from the list of bookmarks - <f8>
go to to the item from bookmark list - RET

Save/restore state

by default state is saved automatically on exit or when eFar buffer is killed and restored when Efar is opened again

Auto refresh when files change

eFar buffer is automatically refreshed when content of displayed directories changes in outside world

Help

display list of all available key bindigs - C-?

Customization

numerous customizable parameters including key bindings and faces available via M-x customize

syohex / efar