finder

Quick and dirty cross-platform CLI tool for searching for files to open with favorite editor.

Suggested Usage

This was intended to be used on a per-project basis and hook up to a OS level hotkey.

# Clone the repository 
git clone git://github.com/twolfson/finder.git {{Optional: folder_name}}
 
# Enter the folder 
cd finder {{or folder_name}}
 
# Set up configuration. See Configuration for more details. 
{{editor}} finder.conf.js
 
# Create shortcut for `node finder.js`. See Shortcuts for more details. 

Configuration

finder.conf.js returns an object which conforms to the following setup:

module.exports = {
  'baseDir': 'directory/to/start/all/searches/from,
  'directories': [
    'minimatch/**/patterns.js',
    'that.you.would.like.to.search.for',
    'All patterns should expand to files.js'
  ],
  'editor': 'path/to/your/favorite/editor'
};

minimatch info can be found here.

Shortucts

Windows

On Windows, I created a shortcut

• Right click finder.js
• Create shortcut
• Specify program to be path/to/node.exe

Once the shortuct was created, I editted it again and bound it to the global hotkey of ctrl+alt+o.

This allowed me to press that key combination and be prompted for the file I wanted to open.

Non-Windows platforms

On other platforms, I began using Sublime Text 2's Find in project functionality and no longer had a need for this.

If you know how to set it up, please submit a pull request with instructions.

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Todd Wolfson Licensed under the MIT license.