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Yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Can't imagine using my system without this.

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[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

I've installed it for a while and lot of stuff work out of the box, including images in the terminal. But I did not get around to use it more often. It's pretty good and I think its a full replacement for the usual terminal file managers, but don't take my word for it. I previously used vifm a little bit and have no other experience.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

I used ranger and it's a solid improvement over it. If you are into tui apps you will love it, if you aren't it's ok. It also has plugin system, I use 2 plugins to compress files and get file size info. I love it.

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

I often use it to navigate into a directory, using it as a directory selector (auto cd on exit). An essential plugin to me is https://github.com/yazi-rs/plugins/tree/main/jump-to-char.yazi , to have a Vim like quick jump with f and a letter and n for next. The default f functionality to filter is now set to F, so I don't lose that by overriding.

Still need to handle archives too. I also want to write my own plugins someday if I get to use it more often.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

It does handles all types of archives by default. Encrypted ones too.

How do you auto cd, I always wanted that but didn't brother to check docs for it. If I remember correctly it's by launching it as a shell script.

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, it's a simple shell function; needs to be a function in your bashrc, not a script, because cd doesn't work like that. Just copy the function from https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/quick-start#shell-wrapper into your .bashrc:

EDIT: I forgot that Beehaw will replace the ampersand character to &. So instead copying my code you should copy it from the link above.

yy() {
    local tmp
    local cwd
    tmp="$(mktemp -t "yazi-cwd.XXXXXX")"
    yazi "${@}" --cwd-file="${tmp}"
    if cwd="$(cat -- "${tmp}")" &amp;&amp; [ -n "${cwd}" ] &amp;&amp; [ "${cwd}" != "${PWD}" ]; then
        builtin cd -- "${cwd}" || return
    fi
    rm -f -- "${tmp}"
}

I use yy instead single y.