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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ A fork of the [noice](http://git.2f30.org/noice/) file browser to make it more f - [Keyboard shortcuts](#keyboard-shortcuts) - [File type abbreviations](#file-type-abbreviations) - [Help](#help) +- [Copy current file path to clipboard](#copy-current-file-path-to-clipboard) - [Change file associations](#change-file-associations) ### Introduction @@ -54,8 +55,9 @@ I chose to fork noice because: - Case-insensitive alphabetic content listing instead of upper case first - Roll over at the first and last entries of a directory (with Up/Down keys) - Sort entries by file size (largest to smallest) + - Shortcut to invoke file name copier (set using environment variable `NOICE_COPIER`) - File associations - - Environment variable `NOICE_OPENER` to override all associations and open all files with your desktop environments default file opener. Examples: + - Environment variable `NOICE_OPENER` to override all associations and open all files with your desktop environment's default file opener. Examples: export NOICE_OPENER=xdg-open export NOICE_OPENER=gnome-open @@ -113,6 +115,7 @@ Start noice (default: current directory): | `e` | edit entry in `vim` | | `p` | open entry with `less` pager | | `z` | run `top` | +| `Ctrl-k` | invoke file name copier | | `Ctrl-l` | redraw window | | `q` | quit noice | @@ -134,6 +137,22 @@ The following abbreviations are used in the detail view: $ man noice +### Copy current file path to clipboard + +noice can pipe the absolute path of the current file to a copier script. For example, you can use `xsel` on Linux or `pbcopy` on OS X. + +Sample Linux copier script: + + #!/bin/sh + + echo -n $1 | xsel --clipboard --input + +export `NOICE_OPENER`: + + export NOICE_COPIER="/home/vaio/copier.sh" + +Start noice and use `Ctrl-k` to copy the absolute path (from `/`) of the file under the cursor to clipboard. + ### Change file associations If you want to set custom applications for certain mime types, or change the ones set already (e.g. vim, fmedia, zathura), modify the `assocs` structure in [config.def.h](https://github.com/jarun/noice/blob/master/config.def.h) (it's easy). Then re-compile and install. |