ALFC by Stu George

ALFC is a clone of a famous old DOS program called Norton Commander. Written under the GPL v2 license.

ALFC embeds the Lua scripting language to give you a lot of power and flexability in your system management.

Design Spec

• Dont over-engineer
• Not supposed to supplant vi/emacs/foo as programming editor
• Is supposed to sustain normal admin tasks (file management, config file editing, etc).

:q - Quit app :s - Make inactive window pane the same path as the active pane. :c - cd :c ~/foo/bar :c $HOME/Documents :j - Jump :j PinkShirt - Finds the closest match to PinkShirt in the list.... which might match Pink or even just P.... :f - Filter window (clear all existing filters) :f flv$ - show all files that end in flv :f+ - Add to filter (posix regex) :f+ .[ch] - Show all c header and source files :g - Glob window (clear all existing globs) :g *.mp3 - show mp3 files :g+ - Add another glob :g+ *.ogg - add ogg to the list

:so - Sort Order :so na - name ascending :so nd - name descending :so sa - size ascending :so sd - size descending :so da - date ascending :so dd - date descending

:tc - Tagged Copy - Does a validated copy from the active to inactive pane :td - Tagged Delete - Removes tagged files :tm - Tagged Move - Does a validated copy then deletion

:tf - Tag all files using a filter :tf - Tag all files using a glob :ta - Tag All :taf - Tag All Files :tad - Tag All Directories :tu - Untag All :t! - Flip all tags

:sym - Symlink files or directories. Not available on WIN32 platforms

:swap - swap panels

:x - extract archive

:q - Quit :t #num - Set tab size to # :g #num - goto line number :g string - goto bookmark :b string - bookmark this line

• document date format allowed
• document time format allowed...

document whole dang options file....

On windows, any file that starts with a dot eg ".netbeans" will have its attribute shown as hidden, even when it does not have a hidden attribute.

Stu George - Right now, everything

The source is available on Gitorious

git clone git://gitorious.org/alfc/alfc.git

Notes on the MinGW port.

• MinGW requires the 'regex' package (both bin + dev) to be installed for building. for distribution you need the regex dll from the bin package (Put the DLL in your windows/system32 directory or somewhere like that)

• You also need a copy of the fnmatch.h header filer http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/fnmatch.in.h;hb=HEAD just save that as /mingw/include/fnmatch.h

Also requires a lua 5.1+ library to link against. And NCurses for the ncurses driver or PDCurses

To build the documentation you need Robodoc installed (minimum 4.99.36)

The master build requires the 'rant' gem installed in Ruby.

Alternatively, there is a premake4 build system in place if you want to build it on windows or linux and dont have the rant build system setup.

On *nixen, you can do "premake4 gmake XXXX" where XXX is x11 or ncurses depending on the driver,

For windows XXX is win32 or pdcurses, and you can replace gmake with vs2005 etc (See premake4 site for more details) http://industriousone.com/premake

• Whats the easiest way to delete all *.o files? :tg *.o :td

• What about deleting everything BUT my .c and .h files? :tf .[ch]$ :t! :td

• How do I refresh the current direcory? To refresh current directory just issue a ':c' with no parameter

20090111 - Started...