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kakoune-lf is plugin for Kakoune text editor. It integrates lf file manager as sidebar file browser.

You have to have lf executable in PATH.

Only last stable versions of Kakoune and lf are supported

• lf file manager

1. Install Kakoune plugin. Any of the following methods will do

• use plug.kak plugin manager
• load lf.kak from your kakrc: source path/to/lf.kak
• put lf.kak in your autoloads directory ~/.config/kak/autoload/

• Open/close lf with :lf command.

• :lf-follow opens directory containing current buffer (or Kakoune's CWD if buffer is not existing file) in runing lf instance

• :lf-sync-cwd opens Kakoune CWD in runing lf instance

• up / down j k
• parent directory h
• open file under cursor (and selected files if any) in Kakoune l
• select file space
• unselect all files u
• enter command :
• quit q

See lf documentation for more.

• :lf-sync-cwd change Kakoune's CWD to currently open directory

• lf_terminal_cmd name of Kakoune command that will spawn terminal/tmux window with lf. It must expose $kak_session and $kak_client environmental variables. By default it uses terminal (build-in) command. See lf-spawn-new form rc/lf.kak for reference.
• lf_follow option to enable/disable changing lf path on Kakoune buffer change.
• lf_openables list of regexes that has to match mimetype of file opened from lf. This prevents opening binary files by accident.

Check out GH project

• 0.1 2018-09-07:
  • initial release
  • Kakoune v2018.09.04
• 0.2 2019-02-02:
  • Kakoune v2019.01.20
  • lf r9
  • CHANGE update README to new format
  • CHANGE lf works as a toggle
  • CHANGE reduce amount of configuration that has to be pasted in lfrc (breaking requires manual update of lfrc)
  • CHANGE to new repository layout (breaking update path in kakrc)
  • ADD lf_terminal_cmd option for custom spawn command
• 0.3 2019-02-07:
  • CHANGE add hooks to lf group
  • ADD editorconfig
  • CHANGE format files in repo with editorconfig
  • ADD opening multiple files at once
  • FIX open paths with spaces
• 0.9 2019-02-12:
  • lf r10
  • CHANGE move all configuration to Kakoune (breaking requires manual update of lfrc). You can use this plugin without modyfing lfrc
  • CHANGE remove hatch_terminal dependency, use built-in terminal command by default
  • ADD display number of opened files in lf status line
  • ADD :lf-follow command and lf_follow option that look for current opened buffer in lf
  • ADD mimetype check to avoid opening binary files
  • ADD command for synchronizing CWD (lf-cwd-sync)