Directory-Browser Perl-extension for Vile

There is a directory browser extension for vile written with the perl interface.

Features

The main features of the directory browser are:

two panel display for separate listing of directories and files
configurable color hilighting based on the type of the file
recognizes broken symlinks
hypertext based directory traversal and file viewing
mime aware capabilities to view files using appropriate applications
plugins extension to the mime library to allow to view certain files within vile after passing through a vile based perl filter routine.

The package contains the following three perl files.

Detailed pod documentation is contained within each file.

The package also contains sample files for:

To get started off without reading the documentation:

put all the three perl files in ~/.vile/perl
put the sample mailcap and mime.types files in ~/.vile
put the following lines in your .vilerc
      22 store-macro
          ~force execute-hypertext-command
          ~if &not $status
              ~force forward-character-to-eol
          ~endif
      ~endm
      bind-key execute-macro-22 ^M
      perl "use directory"
open up vile and type
:directory
Press <RETURN> on directory name to change to that directory and on the file name to view that file.

The perl directory-browser script was written by Kuntal M Daftary in 1998. Kevin Buettner provided help with bug-fixes.