A TUI app to open, read and tail multiple text files at once. Refer also provides convenient key shortcuts to make navigation simple and fast.

Currently this project is incomplete.

Installation

Before you start make sure you have rust installed on your system https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install. Once that is done, then proceed with cloning the repository.

$ git clone --depth=1 [email protected]:Feohr/refer.git

Navigate into the refer folder and run the release build command.

$ cargo build --release

The binary should be present under the target folder target/release/refer. Go ahead and save this binary in the system bin folder if you wish to.

Usage

Run directly via the terminal. The binary expects a space separated array of file paths as arguments.

Key bindings

Keys	Action
ctrl + q	quit the app.
ctrl + n	add a new file.
ctrl + d	delete a file.
(j or ↑)	move up the file buffer.
(k or ↓)	move down the file buffer
ctrl + (j or ↑)	move to the top of the file buffer.
ctrl + (k or ↓)	move to the bottom of the file buffer
ctrl + t	toggle tail mode
(h or ←)	switch to file list
(l or →)	switch to file buffer

Contributing

Any contributions whether big or small are welcomed whole-heartedly. If you wish to help, please refer to the Contribution guidelines.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.