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Facebook PathPicker

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Re: Facebook PathPicker

#31

Post by ossreality »

BonoboBoner wrote: post #26
xxbondsxx wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, I'm in the main engineer on this project if anyone has questions. Facebook has a large codebase, so naturally we have a lot of long filenames and paths. It's a pain to type these out by hand, so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse before pasting it into the command line. This is pretty inefficient and I knew there had to be a better way, so a few of us started hacking on a…

Thank you for making the mouse a thing in a keyboard driven world. As someone who grew up with gaming and learned IT as a result I never was able to fully give up on the mouse during my daily workflows. I admire people who can use VIM etc only by keyboard, but my muscle memory just says: mouse. Thanks for establishing something that embraces this.

lol, what are you talking about, this isn't mouse-enabled?

Re: Facebook PathPicker

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Post by UUMMUU »

xxbondsxx wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, I'm in the main engineer on this project if anyone has questions. Facebook has a large codebase, so naturally we have a lot of long filenames and paths. It's a pain to type these out by hand, so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse before pasting it into the command line. This is pretty inefficient and I knew there had to be a better way, so a few of us started hacking on a…

Very cool tool. Just curious as to why directories are not selectable. I did "ls | fpp" and everything got listed (directories and files) but only the files were selectable.

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#33

Post by kashifzaidi1 »

FiloSottile wrote: post #24

One of the best little-known features of iTerm2 is Semantic History. Cmd-click on filenames and they will be opened by the default application (or you can configure an action to be performed). It's working directory aware and works great with all output. I connected it to Sublime and it even works with line numbers. (Same works for URLs, with the default browser)

Kudos, never knew that!

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#35

Post by Kiro »

BonoboBoner wrote: post #26
xxbondsxx wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, I'm in the main engineer on this project if anyone has questions. Facebook has a large codebase, so naturally we have a lot of long filenames and paths. It's a pain to type these out by hand, so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse before pasting it into the command line. This is pretty inefficient and I knew there had to be a better way, so a few of us started hacking on a…

Thank you for making the mouse a thing in a keyboard driven world. As someone who grew up with gaming and learned IT as a result I never was able to fully give up on the mouse during my daily workflows. I admire people who can use VIM etc only by keyboard, but my muscle memory just says: mouse. Thanks for establishing something that embraces this.

Just want to echo the dead comment:

ossreality 6 minutes ago [dead]

lol, what are you talking about, this isn't mouse-enabled?

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#36

Post by jlongster »

This is awesome. I wonder if any of this was Emacs inspired. A very common UX in Emacs is to list things in a buffer and directly manipulate the items to execute commands. For example, in dir-mode, you can select multiple files and rename them, or mark several files for deletion and execute it.

It really is a fantastic way to bring an interactive interface into a text-based world. This looks like a cool way to bring it to the terminal.

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#38

Post by rmc »

xxbondsxx wrote: post #22
andyl wrote: post #18

This looks great. Is there a streamlined install for Ubuntu?

@andyl We are working on getting a linuxbrew recipe working. There's shouldn't be anything blocking this from working on linux systems (assuming Python 2.7 is installed). In the meantime you can try the manual installation method listed in the README: https://github.com/facebook/pathpicker/ @itsbits Why do you say that? curious if you found anything

If it's pure python why not use pip?

Re: Facebook PathPicker

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Post by biftek »

FiloSottile wrote: post #24

One of the best little-known features of iTerm2 is Semantic History. Cmd-click on filenames and they will be opened by the default application (or you can configure an action to be performed). It's working directory aware and works great with all output. I connected it to Sublime and it even works with line numbers. (Same works for URLs, with the default browser)

Unfortunately using tmux breaks that behavior.
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