marco

A minimal terminal file explorer.

Installation

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/falktimon/marco/main/install.sh | sh

Or manually:

git clone https://github.com/falktimon/marco.git
cd marco
make install  # may require sudo

Keybindings

Key	Action
j/↓	Move down
k/↑	Move up
u	Scroll up half a page
d	Scroll down half a page
h	Go to parent directory
l/→	Open directory / edit file
Space	Toggle selection
c	Copy selected files
x	Cut selected files
p	Paste files
:	Run shell command
q/Esc	Quit

Features

Selection & Clipboard - Select files with Space, then copy (c) or cut (x) and paste (p) elsewhere. Copying in the same directory creates duplicates with _copy suffix.

Shell Commands - Press : to run any shell command in the current directory. Output is displayed in the terminal.

Half-page Navigation - Use u/d to jump multiple entries at once.

Configuration

Create ~/.config/marco/marco.toml:

[colors]
bg = "default"
fg = "white"
highlight_fg = "black"
highlight_bg = "cyan"

padding = 2
editor = null  # uses $EDITOR, $VISUAL, or vi

[keybindings]
select = " "
copy = "c"
cut = "x"
paste = "p"
page_up = "u"
page_down = "d"
quit = "q"