Overview

sidebar is a customizable file explorer with git integration, but not only that. You can also get the list of buffers and your maildirs with mu4e.

I had few problems with others similar projects, so I wrote this one:

• With the others, we're limited to 1 instance per emacs instance, it's annoying when we're using emacs daemon.
  sidebar is written in a way to be able to open one sidebar for each frame.
• We can't select in which window we want to open the file. it's possible with sidebar

Everything is customizable.
The icons are available on both GUI and terminal versions.
Please give me your feedback and open issue for bugs.

Dependencies

• emacs 24.4
• icons-in-terminal Optional but recommended (for both GUI and terminal)

Installation

Please install icons-in-terminal.
Follow the instructions for emacs integration.

sidebar is not yet available on MELPA.
I'm waiting for feedbacks to add it on melpa.

$ git clone https://github.com/sebastiencs/sidebar.el.git

Add those lines in your emacs init file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.local/share/icons-in-terminal/") ;; If it's not already done
(add-to-list 'load-path "PATH-TO-SIDEBAR-DIRECTORY")
(require 'sidebar)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-f") 'sidebar-open)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-a") 'sidebar-buffers-open)

sidebar require some packages: dash, dash-functional, s, ov, projectile and frame-local.
You can install them through melpa.

Default commands

Key	Command	Note
RET	sidebar-open-line	Open file or enter directory
M-RET	sidebar-open-line-in-window	Open file in a selected window
C-d	sidebar-deleted-selected	Delete the file
C-h	sidebar-history	Open the history of visited directory
i	sidebar-create-directory	Create a directory
n	sidebar-create-file	Create a file
M-C	sidebar-cut-selected	Cut the file
C	sidebar-copy-selected	Copy the file
P	sidebar-paste	Paste the file
?	sidebar-help	Open describe-mode
R	sidebar-rename-selected	Rename the file
g	sidebar-refresh	Refresh the content of the sidebar
q	sidebar-close	Close sidebar
<tab>	sidebar-switch-to-buffers	Switch to the list of buffers
DEL	sidebar-up-directory	Change the current directory to its parent (Backspace)
<right>	sidebar-adjust-window-width	Adjust the window width if the filename is too long
<left>	sidebar-reset-window-width	Reset the window width to the default value

Commands with sidebar-buffers

Key	Command	Note
RET	sidebar-buffers-open-line	Open the buffer
M-RET	sidebar-buffers-open-in-window	Open the buffer in a selected window
d	sidebar-buffers-mark-delete	Mark the buffer to be delete
s	sidebar-buffers-mark-save	Mark the buffer to be save
u	sidebar-buffers-unmark	Unmark the buffer
x	sidebar-buffers-mark-execute	Execute the action(s) on marked buffer(s)
q	sidebar-buffers-close	Close sidebar
g	sidebar-refresh	Refresh the content of the sidebar
<tab>	sidebar-switch-to-files	Switch to the list of files
h	sidebar-buffers-toggle-hidden	Show/hide the hidden buffers (starting with a space)
<right>	sidebar-adjust-window-width	Adjust the window width if the filename is too long
<left>	sidebar-reset-window-width	Reset the window width to the default value
?	sidebar-help	Open describe-mode

Commands with sidebar-mu4e

Key	Command	Note
;	sidebar-mu4e-switch-context	Switch context on mu4e and refresh the sidebar content
RET	sidebar-mu4e-open-line	Open the maildir or bookmark
q	sidebar-close	Close sidebar
<right>	sidebar-adjust-window-width	Adjust the window width if the filename is too long
<left>	sidebar-reset-window-width	Reset the window width to the default value
?	sidebar-help	Open describe-mode

Customization

To customize icons and behaviours of sidebar:
M-x customize-group [RET] sidebar [RET]
To customize the colors:
M-x customize-group [RET] sidebar-faces [RET]
To customize sidebar-buffers:
M-x customize-group [RET] sidebar-buffers [RET]
To customize sidebar-mu4e:
M-x customize-group [RET] sidebar-mu4e [RET]

You will likely want to customize sidebar-primary-color, most of the faces inherit from it.

Screenshots

TODO

See here