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Just installed it. It looks nice. It's great to see that there is room for improvement for the shell commands and utilities we use everyday. I think a vim mode

Just installed it. It looks nice. It's great to see that there is room for improvement for the shell commands and utilities we use everyday. I think a vim mode would be great. The first thing I did was to use 'j' to navigate in the tree.

dystroy 7y ago
The problem with using "j" to go down is that it prevents you from using "j" to filter files having a "j" in their name.
- jgrpf 7y ago
  A couple of programs substitue that with ctrl+[hjkl].
  - dystroy 7y ago
    You can define your own shortcuts for navigation. See for example this: https://github.com/Canop/broot/issues/24#issuecomment-572481660 https://github.com/Canop/broot/issues/24#issuecomment-572481...
- samatman 7y ago
  Presumably a vim mode user would jump straight to `/` to filter, or i/a, or f{letter}, etc.
- d21d3q 7y ago
  That was first thing I did - check if I can navigate vim style. However it has different philosophy. It has fuzzy search, so that you just type name of directory which you want to enter, it will be filtered out and hit enter. Now you can explore it.
psalminen 7y ago
I did the same thing. A vim mode would be a nice addition. To search for j, I think creating an insert mode would be best.
- krick 7y ago
  Better `/`. It is already default in dozens of programs with vim-like layout, including as prominent ones as man, less, ranger and more.
krick 7y ago
Same. It seems like it could be useful, but I'm virtually handicapped after decades of vim mode in a sense I cannot efficiently use any software that doesn't support vim keystrokes (well, nobody really can, they just don't know that).
b0rsuk 7y ago
Strongly agree. Keyboard interfaces can be very fast and efficient, but their weakness is having to learn a separate keymap (or set of options) to use a new program. Vim keys is the closest console programs have to a common language! I seriously think all console programs should use a vim-like keymap. Not Emacs, because Emacs has a completely different philosophy - integrate everything into Emacs. Emacs is the prototype IDE. Emacs doesn't seek to export its keybindings, it seeks to import everything.
p5a0u9l 7y ago
I too agree with strength that is strong. Just yesterday I was googling how to get tree to respect my git ignore. The universe heard and responded with broot! But without first class support for vi navigation, be will end up replacing tree as my directory preview pane in vifm.

dystroy 7y ago

The problem with using "j" to go down is that it prevents you from using "j" to filter files having a "j" in their name.

jgrpf 7y ago
A couple of programs substitue that with ctrl+[hjkl].
- dystroy 7y ago
  You can define your own shortcuts for navigation. See for example this: https://github.com/Canop/broot/issues/24#issuecomment-572481660 https://github.com/Canop/broot/issues/24#issuecomment-572481...
samatman 7y ago
Presumably a vim mode user would jump straight to `/` to filter, or i/a, or f{letter}, etc.
d21d3q 7y ago
That was first thing I did - check if I can navigate vim style. However it has different philosophy. It has fuzzy search, so that you just type name of directory which you want to enter, it will be filtered out and hit enter. Now you can explore it.

psalminen 7y ago

I did the same thing. A vim mode would be a nice addition. To search for j, I think creating an insert mode would be best.

krick 7y ago
Better `/`. It is already default in dozens of programs with vim-like layout, including as prominent ones as man, less, ranger and more.

krick 7y ago

Same. It seems like it could be useful, but I'm virtually handicapped after decades of vim mode in a sense I cannot efficiently use any software that doesn't support vim keystrokes (well, nobody really can, they just don't know that).

b0rsuk 7y ago

Strongly agree. Keyboard interfaces can be very fast and efficient, but their weakness is having to learn a separate keymap (or set of options) to use a new program. Vim keys is the closest console programs have to a common language! I seriously think all console programs should use a vim-like keymap. Not Emacs, because Emacs has a completely different philosophy - integrate everything into Emacs. Emacs is the prototype IDE. Emacs doesn't seek to export its keybindings, it seeks to import everything.

p5a0u9l 7y ago

I too agree with strength that is strong. Just yesterday I was googling how to get tree to respect my git ignore. The universe heard and responded with broot! But without first class support for vi navigation, be will end up replacing tree as my directory preview pane in vifm.