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I don't understand how this helps. From what I've seen, it shows a list of files and directories and you "build" a path by selecting/opening them, navigating us
by p4bl0 11y ago
I don't understand how this helps. From what I've seen, it shows a list of files and directories and you "build" a path by selecting/opening them, navigating using some keys to go up/down in the list.
How is that more efficient than "tabtabbing" (hitting tab two times) to see possible completions? To me it seems less efficient to use up/down than hitting the few necessary keys to get the autocomplete you need.
- fouric 11y agoWell, the idea is that you're supposed to stay in search mode as long as possible, thereby avoiding the need to go into normal mode and select files mc-style. If you do that, then Lightning should be more efficient than tabtabbing because (1) you don't have to press tab to filter files and (2) after you have enough characters to uniquely identify your file/directory, instead of having to press <tab><enter>, you're actually already there. That said, this is not for everyone; I anticipate it being useful for about 20% of *nix programmers in 90% of their file-opening cases. I just submitted it because (1) I thought that the style of the tool might be interesting to some and (2) that 20% might really enjoy and benefit from having this.