Comments on: Four more for the console

By: Kaleb Elwert

Kaleb Elwert — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:45:09 +0000

Ahh.
Any help on compiling clex? It keeps segfaulting when I try to run it… darn.

By: Kaleb Elwert

Kaleb Elwert — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:16:11 +0000

I haven’t found any file manager that breaks folders down into the amount of space (including subfolders) it takes. That’s really the main use of ncdu – finding which folders are taking the most space and cleaning it out.

By: Dieter_be

Dieter_be — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:48:34 +0000

I tried ncdu and it’s really cool.
but it hit me that, ideally, a good filemanager has all the features ncdu has.

/me goes off installing vifm

By: Links 26/1/2010: XGI is Back, Fedora Spins Directory | Boycott Novell

Links 26/1/2010: XGI is Back, Fedora Spins Directory | Boycott Novell — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:17:57 +0000

[...] Four more for the console This one I find myself coming back to quite frequently. I must agree that the standard disk usage command for Linux is a bother. If all I want to know is the amount of space a folder is taking up on the drive, I have a long and arduous string of flags to tack on to du before I can get the information I want. [...]

By: Mats Rauhala

Mats Rauhala — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:52:42 +0000

You can also use abook for mutt autocompletion. By setting ‘query_command’ to ‘abook –mutt-query %s’ you use ^T for completing email addresses.

‘abook –add-email-quiet’ can be used to parse email files for adding email addresses to abook.

set query_command=”abook –mutt-query %s”

for i in cur/*; do cat $i | abook –add-email-quiet ; done # IIRC

By: benj1

benj1 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:55:13 +0000

funny you should mention abook, ive recently been looking for some kind of address book, and there seems to be a huge lack of them.

i only wanted something that would work with calendar for birthdays etc, and an email client, aswell as the usual phone numbers and addresses, but there wasn’t really anything that fit the bill.

guess I will have to get some awk practise

By: Kaleb Elwert

Kaleb Elwert — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:52:20 +0000

Yeah, I found ncdu as a replacement for filelight, but I never use qt libs plus gentoo wanted all the kde stuff as well. Not worth it for one app, especially on a 5-6 year old laptop.
ncdu has some really useful shortcuts too… like, d will delete the selected directory or file if you’re sure you don’t want it any more… really useful so you don’t need to have a file manager open.

Looks like I’ll be trying clex. I’ve been looking for a single pane fm for the console… and I like pcmanfm, but it’s going through a huge rewrite and isn’t exactly stable at the moment…

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:16:07 +0000

I agree, Serguei, and I’m getting impatient waiting for K.Mandla to finally give it a try.

But vifm’s default colorscheme is garish, imho. The first thing I do after installing it is edit the colorschemes file to make the borders the same color as the list background. I really dislike the way the default scheme creates a “fat frame” look that feels so utterly un-vi-like. (Check out the screenshot on the vifm website to see what I mean.)

vifm’s real power comes from its ability to associate filetypes with external commands, and from its extensible set of :com commands. Be sure to experiment with those features when giving vifm a trial run.

By: Serguei Filimonov

Serguei Filimonov — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:45:30 +0000

vifm is the best file-management experience I’ve ever had. Perfect for vi ninjas and still great if you’re not into vi.