Ditch sidebar and browse your files in a normal tab with keyboard, like a pro!

You can also use it as a sidebar that you can put on right or left side

You can install via Sublime Package Control
Or you can clone this repo into your Sublime Text Packages folder and rename the folder to FileBrowser

This plugin does not add any keybindings for opening a new tab in "Browse mode". Although, the commands to do that are available in command pallete but I recommend binding F1 to open the current file folder in "Browse mode" with this peice of code (that you can add it to your Key Bindings - User file):

{ 
  "keys": ["f1"], 
  "command": "dired", 
  "args": { "immediate": true } 
}

In Rename Mode:

You can select files and/or directories by marking them with m, or Shift+up/down or just use the sublime multiple cursor feature and extend your cursor to the line that has those files/directories.

Besides incremental search availibale by /, you also may use build-in ‘Goto Symbol…’ (⌘+r or ctrl+r) for fuzzy search.

Press s to summon ‘Find in Files…’ panel — if you’ve marked some files they will fill ‘Where’ field, otherwise it’ll be filled by current folder path.

The rename command puts the view into rename mode. The view is made editable so files can be renamed directly in the view using all of your Sublime Text tools: multiple cursors, search and replace, etc.

After you are done with editing press enter to commit your changes or escape to cancel them.

Selecting a couple of files and/or directories (either by marking them or using the noraml multiple cursor feature of sublime) and pressing w will open them in a new SublimeText window.

Add the following code in your user key bindings file:

{
  "keys": ["o"],
  "command": "dired_select", "args": {"and_close": true},
  "context": [
    { "key": "selector", "operator": "equal", "operand": "text.dired" },
    { "key": "setting.dired_rename_mode", "operand": false }
  ]
}

Add the following code in your user key bindings file:

{ 
  "keys": ["f1"], 
  "command": "dired", 
  "args": {
    "immediate": true,
    "single_pane":true
  }
}

If you don’t like ⠤ symbol and want to hide it (then you should use keyboard binding backspace to go to parent directory) you can do it in your user syntax specific settings file (Preferences → Package Settings → FileBrowser → Settings — User) and paste the code below:

{
  "dired_show_parent": false,
}

In case git status returns a colorable output in current folder, the modified and untracked files will be designated by orange and green outlines respectively.
If Git is not presented in your PATH you may set git_path setting (see example in default settings file).

If you don’t like colors used in FileBrowser just copy this file to your User folder, change colors and paste the code below in your user syntax specific settings file:

{
  "color_scheme": "Path to your custom color scheme file. e.g. Packages/User/custom_dired.hidden-tmTheme",
}

This is a fork of the awesome dired plugin by Michael Kleehammer

See the LICENSE file