ccc

ccc is a rewrite of fff in C aiming for usefulness and speed.

The fact that it is written in C makes it more versatile and rapid, enabling us to add features that were previously ruled out due to time complexity. You may call it a soft fork.

Features

Consider this project incomplete and WIP!

Feature of fff	Ported	Dropped
Standard movement	X
Advanced movement (jumps)	X
File details	X
File icons!	X
Searching for files
Sorting
Marking and marking operations
Other operations on files
Image previews
Help	X
History
Bookmarks
Bulk rename

Features added that are not in fff:

• File preview (without highlighting)

Usage

h: go to parent dir
j: scroll down
k: scroll up
l: go to child dir

left:  go to parent dir
down:  scroll down
up:    scroll up
right: go to child dir

enter: go to child dir/open file
backspace: go to parent dir

gg: go to top
G: go to bottom

ctrl+u: jump up
ctrl+d: jump down

t: go to trash dir
~: go to home dir
-: go to previous dir
z: refresh current dir
:: go to a directory by typing
u: sort files

.: toggle hidden files
i: toggle file details
X: toggle executable

A: show directory disk usage/block size

f: new file
n: new dir
r: rename

space: mark file
a: mark all files in directory
d: trash

?: show help
q: exit with last dir written to file
ctrl+c exit without writing last dir

TO BE DONE:
o: open file with
O: open file with a GUI program detached from file manager

/: search
!: open shell in current dir

x: view file/dir attributes
e: show history
y: copy filename to clipboard

c: copy
m: move
s: symbolic link
b: bulk rename

p: execute paste/move/delete/bulk_rename

[1-9]: favourites/bookmarks (see customization)

Dependencies

• ncurses
• Any Nerd Font for file icons (optional, but turned on by default)

Building

You will need to run these with elevated privilages.

$ make 
# make install

Customizing

CD on Exit for POSIX Shell

# Add this to your .bashrc, .zshrc or equivalent.
# Run 'ccc' with 'c' or whatever you decide to name the function.
c() {
    ccc "$@"
    cd "$(cat "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:=${HOME}/.cache}/ccc/.ccc_d")"
}

Using ccc in neovim as a file picker

See ccc.nvim

Contributions

Contributions are welcomed, feel free to open a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Public License v3.0. See LICENSE for more information.