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Re: Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

#12

Post by mherrmann »

wingerlang wrote: post #7

- I'd like to have relative folders showing up when doing the CMD+P within a folder. - Autocomplete when moving a file. - There's 'select' but not 'unselect'. It's easy to work around but it was tedious to use. - I like having some visual shortcuts or spatial information about he dirs. Now I go into a dir and the top one is kinda lost. Just my opinion. - Maybe let me use CMD+O to open folder/file instead of Enter, wh…

Thank you for the suggestions. Implementation of fman's features is prioritised by the number of votes they receive on a public Trello board [1].

- Relative folders in GoTo in Steroids (Cmd+P): I've added a card on the Trello board for this [2].

- Autocomplete when moving a file: likewise [3]

- You're right about deselect. It should be there. I haven't had time to implement it. One user used the Python plugin API [4] to implement deselect [5].

- fman's ancestors in spirit are dual-pane file managers like Norton Commander or Total Commander, which for 20 years use Enter to open folders/files. Of course, you're free to override the default key bindings [6].

[1]: https://trello.com/b/WpIUiPAd/fman

[2]: https://trello.com/c/TEIdHUjH/142-goto-on-steroids-should-al...

[3]: https://trello.com/c/uavERPwD/143-auto-complete-paths-in-cop...

[4]: https://fman.io/docs/plugins-introduction

[5]: https://github.com/raguay/DeSelect

[6]: https://fman.io/docs/customizing-fman

Re: Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

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wingerlang wrote: post #7

- I'd like to have relative folders showing up when doing the CMD+P within a folder. - Autocomplete when moving a file. - There's 'select' but not 'unselect'. It's easy to work around but it was tedious to use. - I like having some visual shortcuts or spatial information about he dirs. Now I go into a dir and the top one is kinda lost. Just my opinion. - Maybe let me use CMD+O to open folder/file instead of Enter, wh…

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Re: Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

#16

Post by mherrmann »

braindead_in wrote: post #15

No search?

Not yet sorry. Features are priorities by the number of votes they receive on a public Trello board [1]. There's a card [2] for search (which is not the highest-voted feature). But it will definitely come.

[1]: https://trello.com/b/WpIUiPAd/fman

[2]: https://trello.com/c/ZtBmsZtA/98-file-search

Re: Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

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Post by squarefoot »

splitbrain wrote: post #8

Hmm the linux download gives me a .deb file only. I know I could try to extract the binary from it... but I'm too lazy. (ArchLinux user)

a .deb file is an ar archive containing two .tar.gz files, one of which (data.tar.gz) contains the binary along with required files under the same paths you would install on your system.

This example from tldp.org will help:

  ------------------------------------

  $ ar tv parted_1.4.24-4_i386.deb
  rw-r--r-- 0/0      4 Mar 28 13:46 2002 debian-binary
  rw-r--r-- 0/0   1386 Mar 28 13:46 2002 control.tar.gz
  rw-r--r-- 0/0  39772 Mar 28 13:46 2002 data.tar.gz

  The 'data.tar.gz' file contains all the files that will be
  installed with their destination paths:

  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-03-28 13:44:57 ./
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-03-28 13:44:49 ./sbin/
  -rwxr-xr-x root/root     31656 2002-03-28 13:44:49 ./sbin/parted
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-03-28 13:44:38 ./usr/
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-03-28 13:44:41 ./usr/share/
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-03-28 13:44:38 ./usr/share/man/
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-03-28 13:44:52 ./usr/share/man/man8/
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      1608 2002-03-28 13:44:37 ./usr/share/man/man8/parted.8.gz
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-03-28 13:44:41 ./usr/share/doc/
  drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-03-28 13:44:52 ./usr/share/doc/parted/
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      1880 2002-03-07 14:20:08 ./usr/share/doc/parted/README.Debian
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      1347 2002-02-27 01:40:50 ./usr/share/doc/parted/copyright
  -rw-r--r-- root/root      6444 2002-03-28 13:37:33 ./usr/share/doc/parted/changelog.Debian.gz
  -rw-r--r-- root/root     15523 2002-03-28 02:36:43 ./usr/share/doc/parted/changelog.gz

Re: Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

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Post by mherrmann »

dep_b wrote: post #19

How well would this work as a replacement for Finder for basically every task?

The only use case I currently still use Finder for is previewing Pictures. But admittedly, my needs aren't that advanced.

The most mainstream missing feature is probably a search functionality (see the card [1] on the feature requests list). I don't miss it because I use the command line.

[1]: https://trello.com/c/ZtBmsZtA/98-file-search

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