3.1 The GIT file system browser
gitfm is a file system browser with some shell like features
designed to make your work much easier and much efficient. It displays
one or two panels, each one containing a file system directory. You can
browse the directory tree with the usual cursor keys, pressing
ENTER when you want to enter or leave a directory and TAB
when you want to change the panels.
Under the two panels there is a shell like input line which you can use
to type normal shell commands. The input line can handle an unlimited
number of characters and keeps a history of typed commands (using the
GNU history library).
Under the input line there is a status bar. You can see there the
status of the currently executed command, the warnings and errors and
you will be prompted if a decision has to be taken.
3.1.1 Key binding conventions
gitfm now follows a new, easy to remember, scheme to bind commands
on keys. This is only a convention, if you define new key bindings you
may, or may not follow it.
All the file commands start with ^C. This prefix can be followed
by some modifiers, in order to affect the default behavior of the given
command. These modifiers are b and r.
b - this modifier specifies that the command will run in background:
| | ^CM = CHMOD; chmod %s{New mode of %i: ,%m} %i;;;;y
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defines a command that changes the current selected files mode in
foreground, while
| | ^CbM = B-CHMOD; chmod %s{New mode of %i: ,%m} %i&;;;;y
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defines a background command that does the same thing.
r - this modifier specifies that the command will be run recursively:
| | ^CrM = R-CHMOD; chmod -R %s{New mode of %i: ,} %i;;;;y
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defines a command that recursively changes the mode of the selected
entries.
The b and r modifiers can be combined, the resulting command
running recursively and in background:
| | ^CbrM = B-R-CHMOD; chmod -R %s{New mode of %i: ,} %i&;;;;y
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You should also note that for some commands (like gzip) there is
no need for a non-recursive version. Running gzip recursively on
files is harmless. If there is a directory between these files,
gzip will recursively compress that directory, so you can use the
same key binding for recursively and non-recursively compressing. In
fact, it is a matter of selecting files or directories.
Unfortunately, we can't run chmod recursively trying to change
the mode of all the files in a directory to 0644 because that directory
might contain subdirectories and removing the execution permission from
them is a bad idea. So, in this case, we need separate commands.
3.1.2 Command line
This is a brief description of the command line arguments.
-h print this help message
-v print the version number
-c use ANSI colors
-b don't use ANSI colors
-l don't use the last screen character
-p output final path at exit
The -p option can be used to make gitfm force bash (assuming that
you're using it as your shell) chdir to the last directory gitfm was in
before quitting. In order to do this, you need to invoke gitfm using this
function (put it into your .profile):
| | function g
{
gitfm -p $ 3> /tmp/gitfm.p.$$
if test -s /tmp/gitfm.p.$$; then
if test -d "`cat /tmp/gitfm.p.$$`"; then
cd "`cat /tmp/gitfm.p.$$`"
else
cd
fi
fi
rm -f /tmp/gitfm.p.$$
}
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This will not work if you suspend gitfm. Nothing bad will happen, just
the chdir will not be performed.
3.1.3 Panel modes
gitfm has three major modes of displaying the panels. In the first
(default) mode, two panels are displayed, each one using half of the
screen. In the second mode, only one panel uses the entire screen. In
the third mode, only the status bar and the input line are displayed,
both panels being hidden.
Briefly, a panel can use the entire screen or just half of it. Even
when a panel is hidden, it still exists.
Users can switch between these three major modes as needed:
^X 0
| | Enlarges the other panel to use the entire screen. It also changes the
minor mode to ‘Enable all’. The current panel will become
invisible (‘enlarge-other-panel’).
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^X 1
| | Enlarges the current panel to use the entire screen. It also changes
the minor mode to ‘Enable all’. The other panel will become
invisible (‘enlarge-panel’).
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^X 2
| | Switches back to the two panel mode (‘two-panel-mode’).
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^O, ESC o
| | Switches to the tty mode (no panels on the screen) (‘tty-mode’).
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A panel displays the files and subdirectories in a directory.
You can optionally specify some additional information about each entry
(file, directory, …) to be displayed (a minor mode).
When using the full screen mode, all the minor modes here can be used.
In half screen mode, the ‘panel-enable-all’ mode is not available.
These are the panel minor modes:
ESC e o
| | Display the entry owner and group (‘panel-enable-owner-group’).
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ESC e d
| | Display the entry date and time (‘panel-enable-date-time’).
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ESC e s
| | Display the entry size (‘panel-enable-size’).
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ESC e S
| | Display the entry size, scaled (e.g. ‘123M’) (‘panel-enable-abbrevsize’).
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ESC e m
| | Display the entry mode (‘panel-enable-mode’).
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ESC e f
| | Display the entry full name (‘panel-enable-full-name’).
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ESC e a
| | Display the entire information about file (‘panel-enable-all’).
This mode is only available if the panel has been enlarged to use the
entire screen with ‘enlarge-panel’ or ‘enlarge-other-panel’
(‘panel-enable-all’).
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There is another way of changing the panel minor modes:
^], ^[]
| | Switches to the next panel minor mode (‘panel-enable-next-mode’).
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3.1.4 Sorting methods
Entries in a panel can be sorted in different ways. These are the
available options:
ESC s n
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their names
(‘panel-sort-by-name’).
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ESC s e
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their extensions
(‘panel-sort-by-extension’).
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ESC s s
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their sizes
(‘panel-sort-by-size’).
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ESC s d
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their ‘last modified’ stamps
(‘panel-sort-by-date’).
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ESC s m
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their modes
(‘panel-sort-by-mode’).
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ESC s o i
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their owner ids
(‘panel-sort-by-owner-id’).
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ESC s g i
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their group ids
(‘panel-sort-by-group-id’).
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ESC s o n
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their owner names
(‘panel-sort-by-owner-name’).
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ESC s g n
| | Display the panel entries sorted by their group names
(‘panel-sort-by-group-name’).
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There is also another way to change the sort method:
ESC s u
| | Switch to the next panel sort method (‘panel-sort-next-method’).
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3.1.5 Moving the cursor in the panel
Moving the cursor in the panel is very easy. If your keyboard has
arrows, use them. If the arrow keys don't work (it might be due to a
badly configured TERM environment variable), you can use the Emacs
commands bindings as well.
UP, ^P
| | Move the cursor vertically up one entry (‘previous-line’).
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DOWN, ^N
| | Move the cursor vertically down one entry (‘next-line’).
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HOME, ESC <
| | Move the cursor on the first entry in the panel
(‘beginning-of-panel’).
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END, ESC >
| | Move the cursor on the last entry in the panel (‘end-of-panel’).
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PGUP, ESC v
| | Move the cursor vertically down one page (‘scroll-down’).
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PGDOWN, ^V
| | Move the cursor vertically down one page (‘scroll-up’).
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ESC g
| | Scroll the panel entries to the left (‘horizontal-scroll-left’).
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ESC j
| | Scroll the panel entries to the right (‘horizontal-scroll-right’).
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^X P
| | In order to optimize the screen output, you can modify the scroll step
(‘set-scroll-step’). This is the number of lines to try scrolling
a panel when the cursor moves out. The ‘StartupScrollStep’
specifies the initial scroll step, but using ‘set-scroll-step’ you
can dynamically change it.
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TAB, ^I, ^X o
| | Move the cursor in the other panel (‘other-panel’).
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^X P
| | Switch the two panels. This command works even when gitfm is not
in the ‘two panels’ mode (‘switch-panels’).
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3.1.6 Selecting files
INS, ^T, ^X \, ^\
| | Toggle the ‘selected’ flag of the current entry
(‘select-entry’).
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^C s
| | Select (marks) all the files matching at least one pattern from a space
separated list of shell patterns. Spaces and \s are allowed in the
patterns but they have to be escaped with a \. The user will be
prompted for a pattern to match against
(‘select-files-matching-pattern’).
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^C u
| | Unselect (unmarks) all the files matching at least one pattern from a
space separated list of shell patterns. Spaces and \s are allowed in
the patterns but they have to be escaped with a \. The user will be
prompted for a pattern to match against
(‘unselect-files-matching-pattern’).
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ESC +
| | Select (marks) all the files having the same extension as the current
file. If the current file name doesn't have an extension or starts with
a dot, no files are selected (‘select-extension’).
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ESC -
| | Unselect (unmarks) all the files having the same extension as the
current file. If the current file name doesn't have an extension or
starts with a dot, no files are unselected (‘unselect-extension’).
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See section Selecting files matching patterns, for additional ways of selecting and unselecting
files.
3.1.7 Incremental searching files in a panel
Users sometime need to search a file in a panel, especially when the
panel contains a big number of entries. For that reason gitfm
provides an incremental search feature. Using forward and backward
incremental search, files can be very easy located. Wrapped incremental
search is also provided.
^S, ^Xs
| | Incremental search forward a file name in the current panel
(‘isearch-forward’). Pressing ^S or ^Xs again will
force gitfm to go to the next entry that matches the current
isearched string. When the end of the panel is reached, the isearch is
restarted from its beginning.
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^R, ^Xr
| | Incremental search backward a file name in the current panel
(‘isearch-backward’). Pressing ^R or ^Xr again will
force gitfm to go to the next entry that matches the current
isearched string. When the beginning of the panel is reached, the
isearch is restarted from its end.
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3.1.8 Using the input line
The input line is one of the main methods used by gitfm to interact
with the user. All the answers the user should give in order to perform
some operation and all the shell like commands are built using it. So
here is a description of all the basic editing operations that the
‘input line’ provides. They are very much inspired from
Emacs, so Emacs users should have no problem using them.
3.1.8.1 Inserting Text
Typing characters is the most usual way of inserting text into the input
line. Key sequences starting with printable ascii characters are not
allowed in gitfm so typing a for example results in inserting
a at the current point position. Of course, there are some other
ways of inserting text into the command line and here there is a
description of most of them.
ESC RET
| | Copy the current entry name into the input line at the current point
position (‘entry-to-input-line’).
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ESC ESC RET
| | Copy the other panel path into the input line at the current point
position (‘other-path-to-input-line’).
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^X ^I
| | Copy the names of all the selected entries into the input line at the
current point position (‘selected-entries-to-input-line’).
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3.1.8.2 Moving Point
^B, LEFT
| | Move the point backward one character (‘backward-char’).
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^F, RIGHT
| | Move the point forward one character (‘forward-char’).
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ESC b
| | Move the point one word backward (‘backward-word’).
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ESC f
| | Move the point one word forward (‘forward-word’).
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^A
| | Move the cursor at the beginning of the input line (‘beginning-of-line’).
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^E
| | Move the cursor at the end of the input line (‘end-of-line’).
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3.1.8.3 Deleting and killing text
DEL, ^D
| | Delete the character under the cursor (‘delete-char’).
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^H, BKSPC
| | Delete the character before the cursor (‘backward-delete-char’).
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ESC BKSPC
| | Delete backward one word (‘backward-kill-word’).
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ESC d
| | Delete forward one word (‘kill-word’).
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ESC k
| | Delete the entire line (‘kill-line’).
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^U
| | Delete all the characters between the beginning of the input line and
the point (‘kill-to-beginning-of-line’).
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^K
| | Delete all the characters between the point and the end of the input
line (‘kill-to-end-of-line’).
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ESC SPC
| | Delete all the spaces around the point, leaving only one space
(‘just-one-space’).
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ESC \
| | Delete all the spaces around the point
(‘delete-horizontal-space’).
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^W
| | Save the region between the point and the mark into the kill "ring" and
then kills it (‘kill-region’). Note that there is no real
kill-ring here. The so-called kill-ring has only one entry.
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ESC w
| | Save the region between the point and the mark without killing it
(‘kill-ring-save’).
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3.1.8.4 Case conversion of words.
ESC l
| | Convert the following word to lower case, moving over.
(‘downcase-word’).
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ESC u
| | Convert the following word to upper case, moving over.
(‘upcase-word’).
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ESC c
| | Capitalize the following word, moving over.
(‘capitalize-word’).
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3.1.8.5 Reusing recent input line arguments
A separate history is kept for both built-in and user-defined commands.
If you call a command that you have used before, you can re-edit a
previously entered string in order to minimize the amount of characters
needed to be typed for the new one. There is no limit on the number of
strings that can be kept in the history.
ESC p
| | Walk backward through the history of previously entered strings
(‘previous-history-element’).
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ESC n
| | Walk forward through the history of previously entered strings
(‘next-history-element’).
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3.1.8.6 Commands to set the mark
^SPC
| | Set the mark at the current point position (‘set-mark’).
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^X ^X
| | Exchange the current point position with the mark one
(‘exchange-point-and-mark’).
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3.1.8.7 Reinserting recently killed text
^Y
| | Reinsert a previously killed text at the current point position
(‘yank’).
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3.1.8.8 Selecting files matching patterns
If the very first character in the input line is a `+', what comes after
it is considered a (space separated) list of shell patterns, and all the
files that match at least one pattern from that list will be marked as
selected. An empty list of shell patterns (i.e. the `+' by itself) will
cause all the files to be selected.
If the very first character in the input line is a `-', the space
separated list of shell patterns that follows is used to unselect files.
An empty list of shell patterns (i.e. the `-' by itself) will cause all
the selected files to be unselected.
Finally, if the first and only character in the input line is a `*',
then all the selected files will become unselected, and all the
unselected files will become selected.
3.1.9 File operations
3.1.9.1 Copying Files
F5, ESC 5, ^C C
| | Copy the currently selected entries to the user supplied path
(‘copy’).
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^C b C
| | Copy the currently selected entries to the user supplied path. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-COPY’).
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3.1.9.2 Moving Files
F6, ESC 6, ^C T
| | Move the currently selected entries to the user supplied path
(‘move’).
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^C b T
| | Move the currently selected entries to the user supplied path. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-MOVE’).
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3.1.9.3 Creating Files
The easiest way to create a new file is to start an editor passing the
file name as an argument. Most editors will try to create the file if
the file doesn't exist. See section Editing Files, for more information.
3.1.9.4 Deleting Files
F8, ESC 8, ^C D
| | Delete the currently selected entries (‘delete’).
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^C b D
| | Delete the currently selected entries. The operation is performed in
background (‘B-DELETE’).
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3.1.9.5 Linking Files
^C H
| | Create a hard link from the current files to a user supplied file
name (‘LINK’).
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^C b H
| | Create a hard link from the current files to a user supplied file name
(‘B-LINK’). The action is performed in background.
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^C S
| | Create a symbolic link from the current files to a user supplied file
name (‘SYMLINK’).
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^C b S
| | Create a symbolic link from the current files to a user supplied file
name (‘B-SYMLINK’). The action is performed in background.
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3.1.9.6 Renaming Files
^C R
| | Rename the current file or directory with the user supplied name
(‘RENAME’).
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^C b R
| | Rename the current file or directory with the user supplied name. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-RENAME’).
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^C n d
| | Change the name of all the selected entries to lowercase.
(‘name-downcase’).
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^C n u
| | Change the name of all the selected entries to uppercase.
(‘name-upcase’).
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3.1.9.7 Splitting files into smaller parts
^C /
| | Split the current file into several smaller files of a given size and
named based on a given prefix (‘SPLIT’).
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^C b /
| | Split the current file into several smaller files of a given size and
named based on a given prefix. The operation is performed in background
(‘B-SPLIT’).
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3.1.9.8 Packing files into the minimum number of bins
^C ~
| | Pack the files into the smallest number of bins. This is an
approximation - the problem is NP-complete and no known algorithm can
guarantee a solution better than ‘(11/9) * OPTIMAL + 4’.
To make things even worse, for large files, there is no portable way
to predict how many blocks the file system implementation will require
for indirect blocks, directories, etc. So keep in mind that this is
only an approximation.
Bin packing can be useful when you want to put a bunch of files on
floppies or zip disks and you want to optimize things a little bit
(‘bin-packing’).
‘gitfm’ assumes that you want to pack all the files in the current
directory - if there is any selected file in that directory it will be
unselected first. Then ‘gitfm’ will ask for a bin size, and select
the files that should go in the first bin. You are supposed to place
those files in the first bin (e.g. a tar archive), remove them from the
current directory, then run ‘bin-packing’ again, to obtain the list
of the files that should go into the second bin, etc.
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3.1.9.9 Changing a file's mode, owner and group
^C M
| | Change the mode of the currently selected entries (‘CHMOD’).
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^C b M
| | Change the mode of the currently selected entries. The operation is
performed in background (‘B-CHMOD’).
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^C r M
| | Recursively change the modes of the selected entries if one of them is a
directory (‘R-CHMOD’).
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^C b r M
| | Recursively change the modes of the selected entries if one of them is a
directory. The operation is performed in background (‘B-R-CHMOD’).
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^C O
| | Change the owner of the currently selected entries (‘CHOWN’).
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^C b O
| | Change the owner of the currently selected entries. The operation is
performed in background (‘B-CHOWN’).
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^C r O
| | Recursively change the owners of the selected entries if one of them is
a directory (‘R-CHOWN’).
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^C b r O
| | Recursively change the owners of the selected entries if one of them is
a directory. The operation is performed in background
(‘B-R-CHOWN’).
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^C G
| | Change the group of the currently selected entries (‘CHGRP’).
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^C b G
| | Change the group of the currently selected entries. The operation is
performed in background (‘B-CHGRP’).
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^C r G
| | Recursively change the groups of the selected entries if one of them is
a directory (‘R-CHGRP’).
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^C b r G
| | Recursively change the groups of the selected entries if one of them is
a directory. The operation is performed in background
(‘B-R-CHGRP’).
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3.1.9.10 Editing Files
F4, ESC 4
| | Call the default editor with the current file name as an argument
(‘EDIT’).
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^X e
| | Call the default editor with the selected entry names as arguments
(‘MULTIPLE-EDIT’).
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^X ^F
| | Create a new file by calling the default editor with the user supplied
file name as an argument (‘FILE-CREATE’).
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^X 4 a
| | Call the default editor in order to edit the ‘ChangeLog’ file
(‘CHANGE-LOG’).
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The default editor can be specified using the EDITOR or
GNUIT_EDITOR environment variables. See section Environment Variables,
for more information.
$GNUIT_EDITOR used to be called $GIT_EDITOR. The old
name is still accepted for backwards-compatibility.
3.1.9.11 Viewing Files
F3, ESC 3
| | Call the default viewer (gitview) with the current file name as
argument (‘VIEW’).
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^X v
| | Call the default pager (more) with the currently selected entry
names as arguments (‘MULTIPLE-VIEW’).
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3.1.9.12 Compressing Files
^C z
| | Compress the currently selected entries with gzip
(‘COMPRESS’).
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^C b z
| | Compress the currently selected entries with gzip. The operation
is performed in background (‘B-COMPRESS’).
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^C Z
| | Uncompress the currently selected entries with gunzip
(‘UNCOMPRESS’).
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^C b Z
| | Uncompress the currently selected entries with gunzip. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-UNCOMPRESS’).
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^C f Z
| | Uncompress the currently selected entries with gunzip
(‘F-UNCOMPRESS’). Force uncompression of links.
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^C b f Z
| | Uncompress the currently selected entries with gunzip. Force
uncompression of links. The operation is performed in background
(‘BF-UNCOMPRESS’).
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^C .
| | Compress the currently selected entries with bzip2
(‘BZIP2-COMPRESS’).
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^C b .
| | Compress the currently selected entries with bzip2. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-BZIP2-COMPRESS’).
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^C o
| | Uncompress the currently selected entries with bunzip2
(‘BZIP2-UNCOMPRESS’).
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^C b o
| | Uncompress the currently selected entries with bunzip2. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-BZIP2-UNCOMPRESS’).
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3.1.9.13 Encoding Files
^C e
| | Encode the currently selected file (‘UUENCODE’).
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^C b e
| | Encode the currently selected file. The operation is performed in
background (‘B-UUENCODE’).
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^C E
| | Decode the currently selected file (‘UUDECODE’).
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^C b E
| | Decode the currently selected file. The operation is performed in
background (‘B-UUDECODE’).
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^C k
| | Encode the currently selected file using mpack (‘MIME-PACK’).
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^C b k
| | Encode the currently selected file using mpack. The operation is
performed in background (‘B-MIME-PACK’).
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^C K
| | Decode the currently selected file using munpack (‘MIME-UNPACK’).
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^C b K
| | Decode the currently selected file using munpack. The operation is
performed in background (‘B-MIME-UNPACK’).
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3.1.9.14 Encrypting Files
^C p
| | Encrypt (using pgp) the current file (‘ENCRYPT’).
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^C P
| | Decrypt (using pgp) the current file (‘DECRYPT’).
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3.1.9.15 Comparing Files
^C =
| | Compare (using diff) the current ASCII file with the other
panel's current file (‘DIFF’). If both entries are directories, a
recursive diff is performed.
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^C ESC =
| | Compare (using diff) the current ASCII file with its latest
backup. The latest backup is the file having the same name and a '~' at
the end (‘LAST-BACKUP-DIFF’).
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^C B
| | Compare the current file with the other panel current file. A binary
comparison is performed (‘compare’).
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3.1.9.16 Spell Checking Files
^X I
| | Run the ispell command with the current file name as an
argument.
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3.1.9.17 Printing Files
^C j
| | Print the selected files via lpr to the user specified printer or
to the default one if no lpr options are given (‘PRINT-JOB’).
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^C J
| | Print the list of active printing jobs via lpq. The default
printer is queried if no lpq options are given
(‘PRINT-JOB-LIST’).
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3.1.9.18 Wiping Files
^C W
| | Call gitwipe to wipe the selected files. Asks for confirmation
before actually wiping them in order to avoid errors (‘WIPE’).
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See section The GNUIT wipe file utility, for more information.
3.1.9.19 Searching Files
ESC %
| | Search files on the file system, starting from the current directory
(‘FIND’).
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ESC &
| | Use 'locate' to search files on the file system, starting from the
current directory (‘LOCATE’).
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^X w
| | Locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
(‘WHEREIS’).
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^X W
| | Locate a command; display its pathname or alias (‘WHICH’).
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3.1.9.20 Managing tar based archive files
^C a
| | Create a tar archive containing all the currently selected
entries (‘TAR’).
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^C b a
| | Create a tar archive containing all the currently selected
entries. The operation is performed in background (‘B-TAR’).
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^C x
| | Create a compressed tar archive containing the current entry,
provided it is a directory (‘TAR-COMPRESS’).
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^C b x
| | Create a compressed tar archive containing the current entry,
provided it is directory. The operation is performed in background
(‘B-TAR-COMPRESS’).
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^C -
| | Create a bzip2 compressed tar archive containing the current
entry, provided it is a directory (‘TAR-BZIP2’).
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^C b -
| | Create a bzip2 compressed tar archive containing the current
entry, provided it is a directory. The operation is performed in
background (‘B-TAR-BZIP2’).
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^C X
| | Expand the selected archives into the current directory. The utility
used is selected based on the extension of the file
(‘GENERIC-UNPACK’).
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^C b X
| | Expand the selected archives into the current directory. The utility
used is based on the extension of the file. The operation is performed
in background (‘B-GENERIC-UNPACK’).
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^C V
| | Expand the selected archives into an user supplied current directory.
The utility used is selected based on the extension of the file
(‘GENERIC-UNPACK-INTO’).
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^C b V
| | Expand the selected archives into an user supplied directory. The
utility used is based on the extension of the file. The operation is
performed in background (‘B-GENERIC-UNPACK-INTO’).
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3.1.9.21 Working with DPKG
dpkg provides commands for manipulating and querying the dpkg
database, gitfm's DPKG commands allow quick access to most of
those which operate on binary packages, files, or require package
names as arguments. All commands expecting package names can also be
given binary packages, the package names will be automatically
extracted. Most commands use their single character dpkg option
letter as the key command.
^C ^D i
| | Install the deb file(s) selected or pointed by the cursor
(‘DPKG-INSTALL’).
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^C ^D R i
| | Recursively install the deb file(s) in the directories selected or
pointed by the cursor (‘R-DPKG-INSTALL’).
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^C ^D u
| | Unpack the deb file(s) selected or pointed by the cursor, but
don't configure it (‘DPKG-UNPACK’).
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^C ^D R u
| | Recursively unpack the deb file(s) in the directories selected or
pointed by the cursor, but don't configure them (‘R-DPKG-UNPACK’).
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^C ^D C
| | Configure the unpacked package(s) selected or pointed by the cursor
(‘DPKG-CONFIGURE’).
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^C ^D r
| | Remove the package(s) selected or pointed by the cursor
(‘DPKG-REMOVE’).
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^C ^D P
| | Purge the package(s) selected or pointed by the cursor
(‘DPKG-PURGE’).
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^C ^D A
| | Update dpkg and dselect's idea of which packages are available with
information from the deb file(s) selected or pointed by the
cursor (‘DPKG-RECORDAVAIL’).
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^C ^D R A
| | Recursively update dpkg and dselect's idea of which packages are
available with information from the deb file(s) in the directories
selected or pointed by the cursor (‘R-DPKG-RECORDAVAIL’).
|
^C ^D h
| | Display quick help file for GITFM's DPKG commands.
(‘DPKG-HELP’).
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^C ^D c
| | Lists the contents of the filesystem tree archive portion of the
deb file pointed by the cursor (‘DPKG-CONTENTS’).
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^C ^D f
| | Extracts control file information from a deb file pointed by
the cursor (‘DPKG-FIELD’). You are presented with the file name and
can either hit ENTER to see all fields, or add control file field names
(space separated) to see only those fields.
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^C ^D I
| | Provides information about a deb file pointed by the cursor
(‘DPKG-INFO’).
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^C ^D l
| | List the package(s) selected or pointed by the cursor
(‘DPKG-LISTPKGS’).
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^C ^D s
| | Display status details for the package(s) selected or pointed by the
cursor (‘DPKG-STATUS’).
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^C ^D L
| | List files owned by the package(s) selected or pointed by the cursor
(‘DPKG-LISTFILES’).
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^C ^D S
| | Find package owning file pointed to by the cursor
(‘DPKG-SEARCH’).
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^C ^D p
| | Display available version details of package(s) selected or pointed by
the cursor (‘DPKG-PRINTAVAIL’).
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3.1.9.22 Installing and Uninstalling RPM packages
Red Hat Linux Distributions use a very powerful package manager called
rpm. It is used whenever you need to install/remove/upgrade/etc
a software package. The packages used by rpm use the extension
‘.rpm’. gitfm provides default key bindings for some of the
basic operations rpm can perform on packages: install, uninstall,
upgrade and query.
^C I
| | Install the rpm package pointed by the cursor
(‘RPM-INSTALL’).
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^C b I
| | Install the rpm package pointed by the cursor
(‘B-RPM-INSTALL’). The operation is performed in background.
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^C i
| | Uninstall the rpm package pointed by the cursor
(‘RPM-UNINSTALL’).
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^C b i
| | Uninstall the rpm package pointed by the cursor
(‘B-RPM-UNINSTALL’). The operation is performed in background.
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^C N
| | Upgrade the rpm package pointed by the cursor
(‘RPM-UPGRADE’).
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^C b N
| | Upgrade the rpm package pointed by the cursor
(‘B-RPM-UPGRADE’). The operation is performed in background.
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^C q
| | Query the rpm package manager (‘RPM-QUERY’). The default
options used are ‘-qil’. See the rpm manual page for
more details on using rpm.
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3.1.9.23 File Types
^C t
| | Print the type of a file using the file utility
(‘FILE-TYPE’).
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3.1.9.24 Accessing MSDOS Files
^C m d, ^C m ^D
| | Change the current MSDOS directory to a given directory
(‘MTOOLS-CHDIR’).
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^C m P
| | Put the currently selected files on a MSDOS floppy
(‘MTOOLS-PUT’).
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^C b m P
| | Put the currently selected files on a MSDOS floppy
(‘B-MTOOLS-PUT’). The operation is performed in background.
|
^C m G
| | Get some files from a MSDOS floppy and put them in a given
directory (‘MTOOLS-GET’).
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^C b m G
| | Get some files from a MSDOS floppy and put them in a given
directory (‘B-MTOOLS-GET’). The operation is performed in
background.
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^C m D
| | Delete files from a MSDOS floppy (‘MTOOLS-DELETE’).
|
^C b m D
| | Delete files from a MSDOS floppy (‘B-MTOOLS-DELETE’). The
operation is performed in background.
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^C m L
| | List files and directories on a MSDOS floppy (‘MTOOLS-DIR’).
|
^C m F
| | Format a MSDOS floppy (‘MTOOLS-FORMAT’).
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^C b m F
| | Format a MSDOS floppy (‘B-MTOOLS-FORMAT’). The operation is
performed in background.
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^C m M
| | Create a directory on a MSDOS floppy (‘MTOOLS-MKDIR’).
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^C b m M
| | Create a directory on a MSDOS floppy (‘B-MTOOLS-MKDIR’).
The operation is performed in background.
|
^C m K
| | Remove a directory from a MSDOS floppy (‘MTOOLS-RMDIR’).
All the files and subdirectories in that directory are removed as well.
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^C b m K
| | Remove a directory from a MSDOS floppy (‘B-MTOOLS-RMDIR’).
All the files and subdirectories in that directory are removed as well.
The operation is performed in background.
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^C m R
| | Rename a file or directory on a MSDOS floppy
(‘MTOOLS-RENAME’).
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^C b m R
| | Rename a file or directory on a MSDOS floppy
(‘B-MTOOLS-RENAME’). The operation is performed in background.
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^C m T
| | Display the contents of a file located on a MSDOS floppy
(‘MTOOLS-TYPE’).
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3.1.9.25 A different action for each file type
Many files on UNIX systems have one or more extensions specifying
their types. For example, a file that ends in ‘.c’ is a file
containing a C program, while a file ending in ‘.tar.gz’ is
a tar archive compressed with the gzip utility. Having a
default action for each file type, binded on the same key, seems to be a
good idea because you can use that key to obtain type specific
information about a file or to process it in some type specific way much
easier. The GNUIT package contains a script called
gitaction that is used to detect the current file type and
perform a type specific action. See section The GNUIT per file type action script, for more information.
F2, ESC 2, ^X a
| | Perform an action on the current file, depending on its type
(‘FILE-ACTION’).
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3.1.10 Directory operations
3.1.10.1 Creating directories
F7, ESC 7, ^X M
| | Create a new subdirectory in the current directory with the user
supplied name (‘make-directory’).
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3.1.10.2 Copying directories
F5 (for directories), ESC 5 (for directories), ^C C
(for directories)
| | Copy the currently selected entries to the user supplied path
(‘copy’).
|
^C b C (for directories)
| | Copy the currently selected entries to the user supplied path. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-COPY’).
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3.1.10.3 Deleting directories
F8 (for subdirectories), ESC 8 (for directories), ^C D
(for subdirectories)
| | Delete the currently selected entries (‘delete’).
|
^C b D (for directories)
| | Delete the currently selected entries. The operation is performed in
background (‘B-DELETE’).
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3.1.10.4 Moving directories
F6 (for directories), ESC 6 (for directories), ^C T
(for directories)
| | Move the currently selected entries to the user supplied path
(‘move’).
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^C b T (for directories)
| | Move the currently selected entries to the user supplied path. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-MOVE’).
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3.1.10.5 Renaming directories
^C R (for directories)
| | Rename the current file or directory with the user supplied name
(‘RENAME’).
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^C b R (for directories)
| | Rename the current file or directory with the user supplied name. The
operation is performed in background (‘B-RENAME’).
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3.1.10.6 Comparing Directories
^C c q
| | Quickly compare the files in the left panel with the files in the right
one. Only the file names, sizes and time stamps are considered in the
comparison.
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^C c t
| | Compare the files in the left panel with the files in the right one.
The contents of each file in the current panel will be compared against
the contents of its counterpart (if any) from the other panel.
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^C f d
| | Recursively compare (using diff -r -q) the current directory with
the other panel's current directory (‘FAST-DIFF’). Print on
standard output the names of the files that differ.
|
^C d
| | Compare (using diff) the current directory with the other panel
current directory. For successful operation, both panels should contain
the same directory (‘DIR-DIFF’).
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^C b d
| | Compare (using diff) the current directory with the other panel
current directory. For successful operation, both panels should contain
the same directory. The operation is performed in background
(‘DIR-DIFF’).
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3.1.10.7 Summarize directory usage
^C U
| | Display the output of the du -s command on the status line
(‘DIRECTORY-USAGE’).
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3.1.10.8 Changing directories
^X d, ^X ^D
| | Change the current working directory. The user is asked for a new
directory name and the new directory is added to the directory history
(‘change-directory’).
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See section Directory History, for more information.
ESC a c
| | Change the current directory of the current panel to the directory of
the other panel (‘adapt-current-directory’).
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ESC a o
| | Change the current directory of the other panel to the directory of the
current panel (‘adapt-other-directory’).
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3.1.10.9 Directory History
Users usually work on a limited set of subdirectories. Providing a fast
method of switching between a number of intensively used directories is
a good idea and gitfm has a set of builtin commands for doing it.
Usually new directories are added to the directory history when the
‘change-directory’ built-in command is used. gitfm also adds
the current directory to the history list when started, when the
directory history is reset and when a command having a non empty
‘new-dir’ field successfully completes its execution.
See section The new-dir field, for more information.
^X ^N
| | Go to the next directory in the history (‘next-directory’).
|
^X ^P
| | Go to the previous directory in the history
(‘previous-directory’).
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^X ^R
| | Reset the entire directory history. As explained above, the current
directory becomes the only directory in the history
(‘reset-directory-history’).
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3.1.10.10 Hot Keys
gitfm provides default key bindings for switching to a number of
important directories as "/", "..", "$HOME", etc.
ESC /
| | Go to the ‘/’ directory (‘ROOT-DIR’).
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ESC .
| | Go to the ‘..’ directory (‘up-one-dir’).
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ESC h
| | Go to the ‘~’ ($HOME) directory (‘HOME-DIR’).
|
ESC i
| | Go to the ‘/usr/include’ directory (‘INCLUDE-DIR’).
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ESC ESC 1
| | Go to the ‘/mnt/fd0’ directory (‘FIRST-FLOPPY-DIR’).
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ESC ESC 2
| | Go to the ‘/mnt/fd1’ directory (‘SECOND-FLOPPY-DIR’).
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3.1.11 Compiling programs
F9, ESC 9, ^X m
| | Run the make command in the current directory. Use -k as the
default option (‘MAKE’).
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^X b m
| | Run the make command in background in the current directory
(‘B-MAKE’).
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See section The GNUIT per file type action script, for more information.
3.1.12 Sending/receiving ascii/binary mail
^C 2 a
| | Send the current current ascii file by mail to an user supplied email
address (‘ASCII-MAIL’).
|
^C b 2 a
| | The same as ‘ASCII-MAIL’, the only difference being that the
command runs in background (‘B-ASCII-MAIL’).
|
^C 2 b
| | Send the current current binary file by mail to an user supplied list of
email addresses. The file is uuencoded first (‘BINARY-MAIL’).
|
^C b 2 b
| | The same as ‘BINARY-MAIL’, the only difference being that the
command runs in background (‘B-BINARY-MAIL’).
|
^C 2 m
| | Send the current current binary file by mail to an user supplied list of
email addresses. The file is encoded with mpack first
(‘MIME-MAIL’).
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^C b 2 m
| | The same as ‘MIME-MAIL’, the only difference being that the command
runs in background (‘B-MIME-MAIL’).
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ESC x r m
| | Run the emacs -f rmail command. This will start the Emacs's
‘rmail’ function so that you can read your mail (‘READ-MAIL’).
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3.1.13 Starting a sub-shell
^X z
| | Call a sub-shell as specified by the $GNUIT_SHELL environment
variable (‘SUB-SHELL’).
$GNUIT_SHELL used to be called $GIT_SHELL. The old
name is still accepted for backwards-compatibility.
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See section Environment Variables, for more information.
3.1.14 Using grep and recursive grep
^X g
| | Search using grep all the selected files for a given pattern
(‘GREP’).
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^X g
| | Search recursively using gitrgrep all the user specified files
and directories for a given pattern (‘RECURSIVE-GREP’).
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See section The GIT recursive grep script, for more information.
3.1.15 Locking your console
Having a lock feature might be a good idea and, since not all the
UNIX systems provide one, gitfm tries to get around the
problem …
^X p
| | Prompt the user for a password and locks the console until the same
password is reinserted (‘lock’).
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3.1.16 Refreshing the screen contents
Sometimes your screen needs to be refreshed. Just think about what
happens when somebody wants to talk with you and the talk daemon writes
something like this
| | Message from Talk_Daemon@galei.cs.vu.nl at 12:15 ...
talk: connection requested by andrei@galei.cs.vu.nl.
talk: respond with: talk andrei@galei.cs.vu.nl
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on your screen. And sometimes you might also want to re-read the
current directories. gitfm provides a built-in command for
refreshing the screen contents.
^L
| | Re-read the directories contents and refresh the screen (‘refresh’).
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3.1.17 Resetting your terminal
^X ^L
| | Call reset in order to reset the terminal to its default
settings (‘TTY-RESET’).
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3.1.18 Mounting/unmounting file systems
People dealing with lots of files usually need to save/restore/copy
files from/to other file systems. In order to be more efficient,
gitfm provides a set of key bindings for mounting and unmounting
file systems. See section The GNUIT mount utility, for more information.
The default key bindings set has been designed to work under
Linux, but it can be easily changed for other UNIX systems
with different device names. Reading the configuration file
‘gnuitrc.common’ should be enough. See section Hot Keys, for more
information.
As a convention, the ‘/mnt’ directory is used to store an empty
subdirectory for each mountable file system. Each file system is
actually mounted in its counterpart ‘/mnt’ subdirectory. Try to
follow this convention since the gitmount script is heavily based
on it. See section Customizing GNU Interactive Tools, for more information.
ESC m a
| | Call mount(1) in order to mount the first floppy
(‘/dev/fd0’) in the ‘/mnt/fd0’ directory (‘MOUNT-A’).
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ESC m b
| | Call mount(1) in order to mount the second floppy
(‘/dev/fd1’) in the ‘/mnt/fd1’ directory (‘MOUNT-B’).
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ESC m c
| | Call mount(1) in order to mount the cdrom
(‘/dev/cdrom’) in the ‘/mnt/cdrom’ directory (‘MOUNT-CDROM’).
|
ESC m f
| | Call mount(1) in order to mount the first floppy
(‘/dev/fd0’) in the ‘/mnt/floppy’ directory (‘MOUNT-FLOPPY’).
|
ESC m z
| | Call mount(1) in order to mount the zip drive
(‘/dev/zip’) in the ‘/mnt/zip’ directory (‘MOUNT-ZIP’).
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ESC m j
| | Call mount(1) in order to mount the jaz drive
(‘/dev/jaz’) in the ‘/mnt/jaz’ directory (‘MOUNT-JAZ’).
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ESC m t
| | Call mount(1) in order to mount the file systems corresponding to
the selected subdirectories. For example, if you are in the ‘/mnt’
directory and the ‘cdrom’ and ‘zip’ subdirectories are
selected, the cdrom and the zip disk will be mounted (‘MOUNT-THESE’).
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ESC r a
| | Call umount(1) in order to remove (unmount) the first floppy
(‘/dev/fd0’) (‘UMOUNT-A’).
|
ESC r b
| | Call umount(1) in order to remove (unmount) the second floppy
(‘/dev/fd1’) (‘UMOUNT-B’).
|
ESC r c
| | Call umount(1) in order to remove (unmount) the cdrom
(‘/dev/cdrom’) (‘UMOUNT-CDROM’).
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findex UMOUNT-CDROM
ESC r f
| | Call umount(1) in order to remove (unmount) the first floppy
(‘/dev/fd0’) (‘UMOUNT-FLOPPY’).
|
ESC r z
| | Call umount(1) in order to remove (unmount) the zip drive
(‘/dev/zip’) (‘UMOUNT-ZIP’).
|
ESC r j
| | Call umount(1) in order to remove (unmount) the jaz drive
(‘/dev/jaz’) (‘UMOUNT-JAZ’).
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ESC r t
| | Call umount(1) in order to remove (unmount) the file systems
mounted into the selected subdirectories. For example, if the current
directory is ‘/mnt’ and the ‘cdrom’ and ‘zip’
subdirectories are selected, the cdrom and the zip disk will be
unmounted (‘UMOUNT-THESE’).
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3.1.19 Getting some useful system information
^X T
| | Call date(1) in order to display the current time/date
(‘DATE’).
|
ESC S f
| | Call finger(1) in order to display information about local and
remote users (‘FINGER’).
|
ESC S m
| | Call mount(1) in order to display a list of the currently
mounted file systems (‘MOUNTED-FILE-SYSTEMS’).
|
ESC S q
| | Call quota(1) in order to display a user file system disk quota
and quota (‘QUOTA’).
|
ESC S s
| | Call df(1) in order to get the status of the currently mounted
file systems (‘DISK-FREE-SPACE’).
|
ESC S u
| | Call users(1) in order to get the name of the currently logged in
users (‘USERS’).
|
ESC S v
| | Call $GNUIT_VMSTAT(1) in order to get the current virtual memory
status. This is very system dependent, Linux uses free,
other systems use vmstat, so the $GNUIT_VMSTAT variable is
used to deal with this (‘VIRTUAL-MEMORY-STATUS’).
$GNUIT_VMSTAT used to be called $GIT_VMSTAT. The old
name is still accepted for backwards-compatibility.
|
See section Environment Variables, for more information.
ESC S w
| | Call who(1) in order to find out who is on the system
(‘WHO’).
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3.1.20 How to look at the environment variables
^X E
| | Call env(1) in order to display the current environment
(‘ENV’).
|
^X H
| | Call xhost(1) in order to add/remove hosts names to the list
allowed to make connection to the X server (‘XHOST’).
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3.1.21 Viewing/killing processes
There are at least two kinds of ps(1) utilities. One that
accepts (more or less) combinations of the 'a', 'u', and 'x' flags and
another that accepts combinations of 'e', 'f' and 'l' flags. Since is
quite difficult to test which one works fine on a given UNIX
system, gitfm provides key bindings for both of them. Anyway, if
your ps(1) fails to accept the predefined combinations, please
take a look in its manual and then modify the ‘.gnuitrc.TERM’ file as
needed.
Since the number of possible combinations of flags in the ps
command line is quite big and *very* system dependent, there is no real
reason to display them all here. We are only interested in giving you
a starting point in your search through the ‘.gnuitrc.TERM’ file.
Note also that you can display a list of processes using ps(1) or
browse through a list of them (killing as needed) using gitps.
As a convention, we have used the same key sequence for a given set of
ps(1) flags for both ps(1) and gitps, the only
difference being that ps(1) keys end in an uppercase letter.
See section The GNUIT process viewer/killer, for more information.
Under Linux it is possible to see a tree of processes using
pstree(1).
Here there are the default key bindings for the 'e', 'f' and 'l'
ps(1) flags combinations:
ESC P b, ESC P c, ESC P e
| | Call gitps or ps(1) in order to browse through or display
a list of currently running processes (‘GITPS’, ‘PS’).
|
... and the default key bindings for the 'a', 'u' and 'x' ps(1)
flags combinations:
ESC P a, ESC P l, ESC P u
ESC P x, ESC P y
| | Call gitps or ps(1) in order to browse through or display
a list of currently running processes (‘GITPS’, ‘PS’).
|
ESC P T
| | Call pstree(1) in order to display the tree of currently running
processes (‘PSTREE’).
|
^X k
| | Call kill(1) in order to kill a user specified process with a
given signal (‘KILL’).
|
3.1.22 Synchronizing the file systems
^X S
| | Call sync(1) in order to synchronize all the file systems
(‘SYNC’).
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3.1.23 Reading the documentation
^X q
| | Read a manual page. The user is prompted for its name (‘MAN’).
|
F1, ESC 1, ^X i
| | Read an info documentation. The user is prompted for the documentation
name (‘INFO’).
|
^X h
| | Read the html documentation using the viewer specified in
GNUIT_BROWSER, or with lynx if GNUIT_BROWSER is not set
(‘HTML’).
$GNUIT_BROWSER used to be called $GIT_BROWSER. The old
name is still accepted for backwards-compatibility.
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^X ^A
| | Show the key-bindings for commands matching a specified string
(‘apropos’).
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3.1.24 Exiting GNU Interactive Tools
F10, ESC 0, ^X ^C, ^X c
| | Exit GNU Interactive Tools (‘exit’).
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