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Show HN: A Terminal filesystem navigator (github.com/willmcgugan)
11 points by willm 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Hi HN.

This project is an experiment in terminal user interfaces.

It is a filesystem navigator, which could become a useful tool in its own right, or a widget that could be integrated in to a larger tool.

I wanted something that felt at home in a terminal session. So it had to use standard terminal themes. I also wanted it to be keyboard friendly and snappy - so no fancy visual effects.

I'm going to park this project for now. But I will revisit it at some point down the line when I have more idea what it should become.

I did have an idea that I could build a visual cd of sorts, which could be integrated in to a command line. So you could do something like:

cp foo.py `vcd`

Which would bring up the navigator to select a directory to be used as the destination for the copy. But I'm open to suggestions what could be built on top of this.




Well done!

Reminds me of broot (https://dystroy.org/broot/).




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