Wal Commander - Far Manager replacement for OS X and Linux

Hi Habr!

In August, I wrote a post on Habré about how Wal Commander’s open file manager began to develop. After that habraeffekt was shown: six people came to GitHub with pull requests, and fifty letters fell on mail with various wishes, bug reports and requests to add features. Most of them were implemented in version 0.17 , which we released in September. But that's not the point ...


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The most important improvement is that the project now works on OS X. So far through the X11-server XQuartz, but still this is a full-fledged file manager under OS X, which is as close as possible to what Far Manager looks like on Windows with regular plug-ins ( FTP, Colorer). I think the project will be interesting to everyone who has spent a lot of time under Windows using Far and would like to use a familiar tool on OS X and Linux.



The project is written in C ++ (with C ++ 11 elements) and is developed on GitHub under the MIT license. Already supported by Windows, Linux, OS X and FreeBSD. On the project site you can find ready-made assemblies of the release version for different platforms: wcm.linderdaum.com

The main innovations in two months:

• OS X support (short assembly instructions )
• apply the command to a group of files (Ctrl + G)
• autocomplete command history
• file associations
• switch between editor / viewer and file manager windows (so far only 1 instance of editor / viewer)
• Moving through the words in the editor, completely similar to Far Manager (it only remains to make a virtual space and, possibly, some specific shortcut keys)
• a huge number of smaller additions and improvements (full list )

The plans for the next big release 0.18 (somewhere around the New Year):

• panel file groups
• autocomplete commands by file in current folder
• autocomplete in all input fields (by input history in this field)
• dialog file attributes (Ctrl + A)
• improve the file search results interface (so that the viewer and editor work directly from the list of found files)

Compared to the original Wal Commander (only Valery Goryachev developed it), features are being added at a tremendous rate, mainly due to the support and feedback of people to whom the project seemed interesting. Feedback in the form of comments, suggestions, comments and pull requests are most welcome.

PS We really need people who would help the project to get into a stable distribution of Ubuntu 2016. Habr is big and I would like to hope that there are such people here. Perhaps our project will interest them.

wcm.linderdaum.com
github.com/corporateshark/WalCommander