fm

About The Project

A terminal based file manager

Built With

• Go
• bubbletea
• bubbles
• lipgloss
• Glamour
• Chroma
• Cobra

Installation

Curl

curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistakenelf/fm/main/install.sh | sh

Go

go install github.com/mistakenelf/fm@latest

AUR

Install through the Arch User Repository with your favorite AUR helper. There are currently two possible packages:

• fm-git: Builds the package from the main branch

paru -S fm-git

• fm-bin: Uses the github release package

paru -S fm-bin

Features

• File icons (requires nerd font)
• Layout adjusts to terminal resize
• Syntax highlighting for source code with customizable themes using styles from chroma (dracula, monokai etc.)
• Render pretty markdown
• Mouse support
• Themes (default, gruvbox, nord)
• Render PNG, JPG and JPEG as strings
• Colors adapt to terminal background, for syntax highlighting to work properly on light/dark terminals, set the appropriate theme flags
• Open selected file in editor set in EDITOR environment variable
• Copy selected directory items path to the clipboard
• Read PDF files

Themes

Default

Gruvbox

Nord

Usage

• fm will start fm in the current directory
• fm update will update fm to the latest version
• fm --start-dir=/some/start/dir will start fm in the specified directory
• fm --selection-path=/tmp/tmpfile will write the selected items path to the selection path when pressing E and exit fm
• fm --enable-logging=true start fm with logging enabled
• fm --pretty-markdown=true render markdown using glamour to make it look nice
• fm --theme=default set the theme of fm
• fm --show-icons=false set whether to show icons or not
• fm --syntax-theme=dracula sets the syntax theme to render code with

Local Development

Follow the instructions below to get setup for local development

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/mistakenelf/fm

2. Run

make

3. Build a binary

make build