Make TermiFind Interactive

[JosephTLyons]

TermiFind's ultimate goal is to be interactive, like the macOS Finder. It needs to be fitted with a mechanism to allow for moving through directories and selecting files. This could require some Terminal manipulation libraries, such as:

ncurses-rs
crossterm

These can be used to wipe the screen entirely and reprint the whole structure with any changes based on the interaction or certain parts of the screen can be updated. The second option will probably require a rewrite of the system. I'm more in favor of leaning towards any options that avoid using crates with unsafe Rust code.

Some actions that should be possible are:

1. Left and right arrow keys to navigate directories, popping off or adding DirectoryContainers on the right side.
2. Up and down arrow keys to browse files
   • Highlighting a new directory should show a preview of its contents, as either a new DirectoryContainer to the right of the current one.
   • Highlighting a file should show a container with the file's metadata in it.
3. Pressing enter to open a system application for that file type or to open a terminal editor
4. Maybe an action to return the currently selected path to the shell and close TermiFind.

[ali-wells]

Hi @JosephTLyons did you decide on a library for this in the end?

[JosephTLyons]

@techno808, sorry for my delayed response, I'm still actually not sure. I've been over almost everything that is out there, but feel unsure of which way to go. I'm open for suggestions.

I've only done just a few trivial things to TermiFind recently, but I have been building a crate that I anticipate TermiFind needing.

https://github.com/JosephTLyons/file_set

This is basically a tool that lets you sift through files, narrow them down through searches, order by size or name, filter out specific types of directory items, such as symlinks or directories, etc. Right now, TermiFind doesn't offer anything in terms of what files to show or not show other than being able to sort by file name or by item type (directory, file, symlink). I would like the user to be able to enter in their settings how they want their files displayed / ordered / filtered and use the FileSet crate under the hood to make it happen.