smabbasht / swift-n

A tool to open file or directory in your editor by finding fuzzily the file and zoxiding into the directory provided

The Swift n

The Swift n is a nice little tool to open files or directory in your favourite editor in a blazingly fast way ⚡
It basically allows you to find fuzzily the file and zoxide into the relevant directory if provided giving you workflow the ultimate smoothness 🌊

Usage

There are multiple ways to open your file or folder to ensure that you get your setup in minimum steps:

n
opens fzf interface and opens selected file from fzf in your editor.

n [search-pattern]
opens fzf with search-pattern as query and opens selected file from fzf in your editor.

n [folder-name] [search-pattern]
zoxides into folder-name, opens fzf interface in that directory and opens the selection from fzf in your editor.

n [folder-name] .
zoxides into folder-name and opens that directory in your editor.

Pre-requisites:

There are two tools that need to be installed in order for Swift n to work; fzf and zoxide. Both the tools can be found in most linux distributions' official package repositories. For popular distributions; the installation commands are as follow:

Github Repositories: | fzf | zoxide |

• For Arch Linux & Arch-Based Distros:

sudo pacman -S fzf zoxide

• For Debian and Debian-Based Distros:

sudo apt install fzf zoxide

• For Fedora

sudo dnf install fzf zoxide

Install

There are a few easy steps to install the tool which are as follows:

1. Clone the repository in your preferred directory:

git clone https://github.com/smabbasht/swift-n

2. Rename variable editor in the script n. The editor is by default set to nvim, you can rename it as per you need for e.g: vim, code, clion etc.
3. Add script n to your path: You will have to add the script n to your path in order to directly use it from anywhere:
   • If you use Fish, add this in your ~/.config/fish/config.fish:

   fish_add_path /path/to/swift-n

   • If you use Bash, add this in your ~/.bashrc

   export PATH="/path/to/swift-n:$PATH"

   • If you use Zsh, add this in your ~/.zshrc

   export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/swift-n

Plan

The plan is to extend this helper tool to make it a tmux-session helper too. This option will be invoked using flags. I want suggestions on as to do it or not since those who don't use TMUX might find this an overkill.

Support

You can support this project by giving this repo a 🌟 and by sharing it with peers 👬
PRs are highly encouraged 🙌