Show HN: Nav – A terminal navigator for interactive `ls` workflows

Post by alchemist1e9 » Wed, Sep 27, 2023, 11:56 PM UTC

dankco wrote: post #4

djbusby wrote: post #2

Any thoughts on Midnight Commander? https://midnight-commander.org/

I have to admit that I had not come across midnight-commander. It certainly looks interesting and I'll be giving it a spin. Thanks for pointing me in its direction! I do intend to expand nav's feature set to come close to an `ls` replacement, at least for the most common workflows, whereas midnight-commander and other similar tools are perhaps closer to being (or are) file managers. I'm also hopeful that by using the…

Post by nilsherzig » Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 12:35 AM UTC

pxc wrote: post #6

cstrahan wrote: post #5

Nice! For inspiration, you may want to look at `lf`: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

Also Broot, which is-- like OP's tool-- intended as an ls replacement rather than a full file manager: https://github.com/Canop/broot

Post by dankco » Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 1:04 AM UTC

linhns wrote: post #14

Decent effort. Have you tried looking at fzf? I managed to combine it with ripgrep to create a similar experience to what you have.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 1:45 AM UTC

pmarreck wrote: post #16

Someone stick this up on search.nixos.org! Love me some good CL tooling

Post by pxc » Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 1:54 AM UTC

dankco wrote: post #8

pxc wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also Broot, which is-- like OP's tool-- intended as an ls replacement rather than a full file manager: https://github.com/Canop/broot

Broot looks really nice. I love the tree-like output - `tree` is one of my favorite tools. Interactive tree is a great idea, makes me wish I had perhaps started there instead.