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Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by duguyue100 »

Midnight Commander has always been my favorite terminal file manager. It's feature-rich, fast, and actually tries to be a file manager compared to modern alternatives. However, there are quite some features that I never used, and I couldn't configure a Vim bindings that works well for me.

With OpenCode, I can finally make my own terminal file manager. I borrowed the main design concepts from Midnight Commander and some behavior from NVim-Tree file explorer.

I hope you would like it, at least I do. Since this project is entirely vibe-coded, so I'm not going to accept PR from the community, but feel free to open issues and fork it.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by vovanidze »

duguyue100 wrote: post #2

Midnight Commander has always been my favorite terminal file manager. It's feature-rich, fast, and actually tries to be a file manager compared to modern alternatives. However, there are quite some features that I never used, and I couldn't configure a Vim bindings that works well for me. With OpenCode, I can finally make my own terminal file manager. I borrowed the main design concepts from Midnight Commander and so…

still haven't found anything that replaces mc for me. the 2-pane layout is basically muscle memory at this point. everything modern just feels way too bloated or slow. mc is great but customizing the bindings is a total headache tbh. really like the idea of better vim integration here. curious how it handles performance on large directories with 10k+ files? giving it a spin...

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by konmok »

I don't think the level of reliability necessary for a file manager is achievable with vibe coding. This is an area where small bugs can cause immediate and catastrophic data loss.

If you're shopping for a file manager, I recommend avoiding any project that incorporates a significant amount of LLM-generated code. Maybe in theory it could be reviewed as thoroughly as handwritten code; in practice that never happens.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by comboy »

daoistmonk wrote: post #5

The AGENTS.md is hilarious! I like the caveman mode and classical mode seems.. interesting!

Interesting that in Chinese, classical writing is associated with terseness. That definitely wouldn't work that way in other languages I know.
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