-# noice
+## noice
-A fork of noice file browser: http://git.2f30.org/noice/
+A fork of the [noice](http://git.2f30.org/noice/) file browser to make it more friendly towards major distros (which `suck more` by some standards).
-Additional customization to make it more friendly towards major distros (which `suck more` by some standards).
+### Table of Contents
-## Default features
+- [Introduction](#introduction)
+- [Why fork?](#why-fork)
+- [Default features](#default-features)
+- [Fork toppings](#fork-toppings)
+- [Installation](#installation)
+- [Usage](#usage)
+- [Keyboard shortcuts](#keyboard-shortcuts)
+- [Help](#help)
+- [Change file associations](#change-file-associations)
-- Browse current or specified directory
-- Navigate to parent or child directories
-- Jump to first or last entry
+### Introduction
+
+noice is a blazing-fast terminal file browser with easy keyboard shortcuts for navigation, opening files and running tasks. noice is developed with terminal based systems in mind. However, the incredible user-friendliness and speed make it a perfect utility on modern distros.
+
+The only issue with noice is hard-coded file association. There is no config file (better performance and simpler to maintain) and you have to modify the source to change associations (see [how to change file associations](#change-file-associations)). This fork solves the problem by adding the flexibility of using the default desktop opener at runtime. There are several other improvements too (see [fork-toppings](#fork-toppings)).
+
+Have fun with it! PRs are welcome. Check out [#1](https://github.com/jarun/noice/issues/1).
+
+### Why fork?
+
+I chose to fork noice because:
+- one can argue my approach deviates from the goal of the original project - keep the utility `suckless`. In my opinion evolution is the taste of time.
+- I would like to have a bit of control on what features are added in the name of desktop integration. A feature-bloat is the last thing in my mind.
+
+### Default features
+
+- Super-easy navigation
- Open files with default-associated programs
- Jump to home directory
- Filter contents in current directory
- Run `top`
- Open a file with `vim` or `less`
-## Modifications
+### Fork toppings
- Behaviour
- - Case-insensitive alphabetic content listing instead of upper case first.
+ - Case-insensitive alphabetic content listing instead of upper case first.
- File associations
- - Environment variable `NOICE_OPENER` to override all associations and open all files with your desktop environments default file opener. Examples:
+ - Environment variable `NOICE_OPENER` to override all associations and open all files with your desktop environments default file opener. Examples:
- export NOICE_OPENER=xdg-open
- export NOICE_OPENER=gnome-open
- export NOICE_OPENER=gvfs-open
- All the following associations are ignored if `NOICE_OPENER` is exported.
+ export NOICE_OPENER=xdg-open
+ export NOICE_OPENER=gnome-open
+ export NOICE_OPENER=gvfs-open
+ - Selective file associations (ignored if `NOICE_OPENER` is set):
- Associate plain text files with vim (using `file` command)
- Remove video file associations (to each his own favourite video player)
- - Associate common audio file types with lightweight [fmedia](http://fmedia.firmdev.com/)
- - Associate PDF files with zathura
- - Removed less
+ - Associate common audio mimes with lightweight [fmedia](http://fmedia.firmdev.com/)
+ - Associate PDF files with [zathura](https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/)
+ - Removed `less` as default file opener
- Use environment variable `NOICE_FALLBACK_OPENER` to open other non-associated files
- Compilation
- - Use `-O3` for compilation, fixed warnings
- - Added compilation flag `-march=native` (compile only, no plans to package).
- - Remove generated config.h on `make clean`.
+ - Use `-O3` for compilation, fixed warnings
+ - Added compilation flag `-march=native`
+ - Remove generated config.h on `make clean`
+
+### Installation
+
+noice needs a curses implementation and standard libc.
-## Installation
+Download the [latest master](https://github.com/jarun/noice/archive/master.zip) or clone this repository. Compile and install:
$ make
$ sudo make install
+No plans of packaging at the time.
-## Help
+### Usage
- $ man noice
+Start noice (default: current directory):
-## Change associations
+ $ noice [path_to_dir]
+`>` indicates the currently selected item.
-If you want to set custom applications for certain mime types, or change the ones set already (e.g. vim, fmedia, zathura), modify the `assocs` structure in *config.def.h* (it's easy). Then run the following commands to re-compile and install:
+### Keyboard shortcuts
- $ make clean
- $ make
- $ sudo make install
+| Key | Function |
+| --- | --- |
+| `Down`, `j`, `Ctrl-n` | next entry |
+| `Up`, `k`, `Ctrl-p` | previous entry |
+| `>`, `Enter`, `l` | open file or enter dir |
+| `<`, `Backspace`, `h` | parent dir |
+| `Page Down`, `Ctrl-d` | one page down |
+| `Page Up`, `Ctrl-u` | one page up |
+| `Home`, `Ctrl-a`, `^` | jump to first dir entry |
+| `End`, `Ctrl-e`, `$` | jump to last dir entry |
+| `~` | jump to home dir |
+| `/`, `&` | filter dir contents |
+| `c` | change dir |
+| `.` | toggle hide dot files |
+| `t` | toggle sort by modified time |
+| `!` | spawn a shell in current dir |
+| `e` | edit item in `vi` |
+| `p` | open item with `less` pager |
+| `z` | run `top` |
+| `Ctrl-l` | redraw window |
+| `q` | quit noice |
+
+### Help
+
+ $ man noice
+
+### Change file associations
+
+If you want to set custom applications for certain mime types, or change the ones set already (e.g. vim, fmedia, zathura), modify the `assocs` structure in [config.def.h](https://github.com/jarun/noice/blob/master/config.def.h) (it's easy). Then re-compile and install.