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I'm going to be a dick here, because someone will say it anyways, but how is this different from VIM's directory browser? Essentially the same UI. I do think your program does add some features not found in VIM.
Once I select a directory I want to dump myself back out into a command line in that directory, I couldn't see the key for that? Or am I misunderstanding the purpose?
I'm blown away at the quality of the readme :-) In the demo, how did you get the key press indicator to show? I haven't seen that before, but it's a wonderful addition. And may I ask what you used to record it?
I used screenkey to display the keystrokes and Peek to record the gif. I actually wrote some instructions for myself so I remember how I did it if I want to update the gif: https://github.com/mgunyho/tere/blob/master/demo/README.md
> "Tere" means "hello" in Estonian. It also feels nice to type. On qwerty I think that's the case :)
It feels bad to type on qwerty. Alternating hands feels nicer to type. That's part of why ls is so hard to remove from peoples' muscle memory.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mgunyho/tere/master/Cargo.lock | grep source | wc -l 51 How come that such a simple tool has more than half a century of dependencies? This is terrifying.
Some Rust dependency bloat is pretty common, because a lot of idiomatic approaches are hidden behind dependencies. I don't think it's particularly crazy in this situation. The actual dependencies directly used are relatively lean: crossterm = "0.24.0" dirs = "4.0.0" regex = "1.5.4" serde_json = "1.0" serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["rc"] } textwrap = "0.14" unicode-segmentation = "1.7" I guess one could write…
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version = "3"
default-features = false
features = ["wrap_help", "suggestions", "std"]I hit ~ expecting to go to my home directory, which was a bit odd Once I select a directory I want to dump myself back out into a command line in that directory, I couldn't see the key for that? Or am I misunderstanding the purpose?
I'll add ~ as a shortcut for the home directory, thanks for the good idea! (It conflicts with type-to-search for folders starting with '~', but I think that's much less common than cding to home.)
Lol, ~30 years ago a created such a tool for DOS in Turbo Pascal for my own usage. Later i "upgrade" it to a Star Trek LCARS Design.... i have to look if i still had the sources. History repeats.