vidir

A C implementation of vidir from moreutils. Supports editing filenames in a visual manner.

Features

• Cross-platform: Works on Windows (XP+) and POSIX systems (Linux, macOS, BSD)
• Unicode Support: Full Unicode support. Editor must support UTF-8.
• No CRT Dependency: Windows version links only against kernel32.dll and shell32.dll.
• Unity Build System: Only a single .c file to compile.
• Public Domain: Dedicated to the public domain.

Building

POSIX

cc -o vidir main_posix.c

Windows (MinGW-w64)

x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc main_windows.c -o vidir.exe -nostdlib -nostartfiles -lkernel32 -lshell32

Usage

vidir [--verbose] [directory|file|-]...

• vidir - Edit current directory
• vidir somedir - Edit contents of somedir
• vidir file1 file2 - Edit specific files
• vidir - - Read file list from stdin
• vidir --verbose - Show verbose output

Editor Configuration

The program respects the following environment variables (in order of preference):

1. VISUAL
2. EDITOR
3. Falls back to build-time DEFAULT_EDITOR (by default, vi on POSIX systems, notepad on Windows)

TODO:

• Test on Windows XP. (no theoretical reason this shouldn't work - I just haven't done it.)