Learn how to use tutorial
This tutorial will help you learn to use superfile step by step.
Hotkeys tutorial
First, if you want to open superfile
by opening a terminal and typing spf
.
Afterwards if you want to exit just press q
or esc
.
Navigation
You can put focus on the sidebar by pressing s
.
Press p
to focus the processbar.
Press m
to focus on metadata.
If you want to return to the file panel, just press again to remove focus.
File panel navigation
Now you might be thinking that a file panel is not enough.
Therefore, you can press n
to create a new file panel and w
to close the file panel.
Now you know how to create and close file panels.
But how to switch to the next or previous archive panel?
You can press tab
or L
(shift+l) to move to the next file panel.
Then press shift+left
or H
(shift+h) to move to the previous archive panel.
File panel movement
Now let us introduce how to operate the File panel
First of all, if you don’t want to see dotfiles, you can press .
which will hide all dotfiles
Then if you think you will use this folder frequently, you can also put it on the sidebar, just press P
to pin or unpin
When you focus on the file panel you can press up
or k
to up
press down
or j
to down
After navigation to the file or folder you want, you can press enter
or l
to confirm. The file will be opened using your default Application (if not, there will be no response) and the folder will be entered.
Press h
or backspace
will return to the parent directory.
If you have a large number of files, you can also use /
to search,After entering the Key you want, you can press /
again or enter
If you want to clear the current search, you can press ctrl+c
or esc
File selection mode movement
You might be thinking what is selection mode?
That’s really easy!This mode is similar to Vim’s Visual.But select file or folder instead of code.
After selecting, you will be able to perform file operations on all selected files or folders.
First to enter this mode you can press v
. To return to browse mode the same is done by pressing v
After entering you can use the same shortcut as file panel movement to move.
Now you may have moved to the file or folder you want to select. You can press enter
or L
(shift+l) to select and press again to deselect.
But this will be a bit slow when you want to select a large number of files
So here are some faster ways
You can press shift+up
or K
(shift+k) to select all files or folders passed by the cursor when it goes up.
Of course, the same is true for shift+down
or J
(shift+j)
You can also press A
to select all folders in the current directory
File operations
You have learned how to use superfile to browse files and select files. Let’s learn how to perform file operations!
First, let me teach you how to create a file. You can press ctrl+n
to create a file or folder, if you want to create folder you need add /
in the end.
Then if you want to rename it, press ctrl+r
and it will name the location of your cursor.
If you want to copy, you can press ctrl+c
and the copied file list will be displayed in the clipboard (lower right corner).
If you want to cut, press ctrl+x
.
Your copy process will be displayed in the processbar (lower left corner).
You can press ctrl+d
to delete file (The deletion here is not direct deletion but will be placed in the trash can.). But when you use an external hard drive, it will be deleted directly.
If you want to decompress or compress you can press ctrl+a
to compress and ctrl+e
to decompress.
To open a file with an editor, press e
.
To open the current directory with an editor, press E
.
To change the default editor, you can set the EDITOR
environment variable in your terminal. For example:
EDITOR=nvim
This will set Neovim as your default editor. After setting this, the specified editor will be used when opening files with the e
or E
key bindings.
(Sorry, this video has a little bit of lag) demo video