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Curses Tree Style Path Picker

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CURSES TREE STYLE PATH PICKER

A Curses based, tree style, path picker. For use as a terminal based file dialog.

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  • Pre-order file system traversal from a given point, or $PWD if not specified.
  • Support both Vi & Emacs bindings and jumping to next or previous parent.
  • Expand or collapse child nodes one at a time or all at once.
  • Recursively get disk usage of a single node or all expanded nodes.
  • Toggle display of dotfiles.
  • Toggle marking of files that can then be piped into another program or simply echoed back to the screen upon exit.
  • Reset marking and expansion.

INSTALLATION

pip install treepick

CLI USAGE

USAGE: treepick [-h] [-a] [path]

Select paths from a directory tree.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS:
path          A valid path.

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS:
-h, --help    Show this help message and exit.
-a, --hidden  Show all hidden paths too.

PYTHON USAGE

from treepick import pick

hidden = True

parent_path = '/path/to/directory'

my_list_of_paths = pick(parent_path, hidden)

my_amazing_function(my_list_of_paths)

KEYBINDINGS

KEY ACTION
UP, k, p Step up one line.
DOWN, j, n Step down one line.
K, P Jump to previous parent directory.
J, N Jump to next parent directory.
PGDN, d, v Jump down a page of lines.
PGUP, u, V Jump up a page of lines.
g, < Jump to first line.
G, > Jump to last line.
RIGHT, l, f Expand and step into directory.
TAB, RET Toggle expansion/collapse of directory.
LEFT, h, b Collapse directory.
SHIFT RIGHT, L, F Expand directory and child directories.
SHIFT LEFT, H, B Jump to parent directory and collapse all.
m, SPC Toggle marking of paths.
M Toggle marking of all currently expanded paths.
F2, i View all currently picked paths.
. Toggle display of dotfiles.
s Display total size of path, recursively
S Display totol size of all currently expanded paths.
r Reset marking and expansion.
F1, ? View all keybindings.
q, ESC Quit and display all marked paths.

TODO

  • Support window resizing.
  • Page for viewing all current picks
  • Fix permission exception handling in my du package.
  • Retain traversal position when toggling hidden directories.
  • Different colors for sizes and marks.

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