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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 »

nottorp wrote: post #18

> : opens a command prompt for power-user actions Vibe coded or not, that's what puts me off from most nc/dn/mc reimplementations. If you can't reach the command line by just typing the command, what's the point? At least on this one you don't have to mouse click somewhere...

I actually thought about this when I was doing iterations. So I do almost all my work in tmux, so I have no shortage of terminal windows. Therefore, to me, it makes more sense that the command palette here should be used to trigger some additional commands beyond keybindings.

I also hate to use function keys and having a menu bar in the TUI app. Therefore, I chose this design.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by jbverschoor »

nottorp wrote: post #18

> : opens a command prompt for power-user actions Vibe coded or not, that's what puts me off from most nc/dn/mc reimplementations. If you can't reach the command line by just typing the command, what's the point? At least on this one you don't have to mouse click somewhere...

Norton Commander always had a permanent command prompt at the bottom. The active pane mandates the CWD. It was not just for browsing and copying some dir structure. Viewing, editing, unzipping, shell.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by gala8y »

vovanidze wrote: post #4
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...

I recently switched to almost exclusively using vifm with some zoxide/fzf extra commands + some custom previewers/openers.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by vovanidze »

gala8y wrote: post #34
vovanidze wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I recently switched to almost exclusively using vifm with some zoxide/fzf extra commands + some custom previewers/openers.

vifm is great if you live in vim, but mc is just hardcoded into my brain at this point. totally agree on zoxide + fzf though, cant imagine navigating a large fs without them now. they're the only 'modern' additions to my workflow that actually felt worth the setup time.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

vova_hn2 wrote: post #29
muppetman wrote: post #7

“With opencode I can” closes tab

Is anti-AI sentiment somehow exempt from the "shallow dismissals" rule?

If something is touching my filesystem or worse, it's critical to know whether it's vibe coded and I value the callout.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by orphea »

manbash wrote: post #10

If you're shopping for a file manager, I'd recommend "yazi", which was a new, yet practical experience for me.

My first impression is not great. Several clicks in the docs - no screenshots to see how it looks like. The very first thing advertised on their GitHub - some "#1 coding agent". And again - no screenshots. Some flashing unpleasant video. "Written in Rust", which is becoming a meme, like if a user should care.

Maybe it's a good file manager but, imo, authors completely failed to advertise it right.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by vova_hn2 »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #36
vova_hn2 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is anti-AI sentiment somehow exempt from the "shallow dismissals" rule?

If something is touching my filesystem or worse, it's critical to know whether it's vibe coded and I value the callout.

I doubt that you would install this application without even reading the README, so I don't understand how citing literally the second paragraph of the README helps.

> it's critical to know whether it's vibe coded

Strictly speaking, the only way to be sure that something is not vibe-coded is to either have a proof that the code were published before vibe-coding tools were available or to hand code it yourself.

Also, if you think that knowing if something is vibe-coded is so important, it is unwise to attack people who honestly tell you that something is vibe-coded.

Re: Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

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Post by duguyue100 »

manbash wrote: post #10

If you're shopping for a file manager, I'd recommend "yazi", which was a new, yet practical experience for me.

I actually used Yazi a while back. And it's definitely >100x more robust and production-ready than what I iterated for ~3 hours :). And I have no doubt that it is probably way faster.

The only problem for me is that it's not how I use a file manager. I learned to have two parallel windows when moving files, even before I learned how to use a terminal. That's why Midnight Commander was feeling so great. Until the day that I wanted to eliminate my usage of function keys and was tired of maintaining a config file. Some may say I "overkilled" it just to get rid of a config file..

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