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What meaningful file operations do people do day-to-day? I download stuff to my Desktop or Downloads folder and regularly delete it, but that's only when it's n
by thom 4y ago
What meaningful file operations do people do day-to-day? I download stuff to my Desktop or Downloads folder and regularly delete it, but that's only when it's not in a package manager. Beyond that, everything's managed by editors/IDEs/web-apps, and code mostly has established hierarchies that don't change too often. Something has to go horribly wrong for me to ever want to do major surgery on files like a deep copy of a directory, especially in the age of git. The last major copy operation I did was moving my Steam library, which Steam did itself.
Back in the day with Midnight Commander and lynx key bindings, it was a nice way to quickly navigate around a codebase and see what's up, but these days I'd probably do that on GitHub. Even before that, my main use of Norton Commander was editing Windows startup files, and creating a parallel cable connection to my brother's PC to play DOOM. I can't remember the last time I opened my file manager tbh.
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoAmong other things I use it for logs: to reach them, to copy them, to find them and to view them. They are just files, not tied to your ide or webapp, and can come from any kind of location. Keyword search can't replace file navigation. It works like unix way: you must know in advance what to find, but why I would need to find what I already know?
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoSorry you're not the use case for this. I cut/copy/delete/move files hundreds of times per day, across both local and remote disks. And I use editors, IDEs, and git, too. But the files I cut/copy/delete/move have little or nothing to do with software development.
- falcor84 4y agoIt would perhaps be useful then if you actually describe your use cases
- rgoulter 4y agoI still appreciate having a tool like ranger for emacs: https://github.com/ralesi/ranger.el https://github.com/ralesi/ranger.el It's not quite the two-column file manager; but it's inspired by a file manager + preview, with simple keybindings for navigating.
- mhd 4y ago> What meaningful file operations do people do day-to-day? Copying stuff out of my Downloads folder, for one. I tried doing that with MacOs' Alfred for a while (select in finder -> shortcut -> fuzzy search destination -> move to), but a decent enough bookmark system in a two-panel folder works better for me. I also often just dump new documents in a standard location and reorganize it later, as that's more user friendly than your average file requester and postpones one of IT and life's hard problems. All in all, pretty similar to what I did on my 286. There's a little bit more file search involved (at least on my Mac, less so on Linux) and iTunes/cdrip/beets took a lot of effort out of organizing music. Sure, I don't need a secondary fm for that, but then again, I don't really need a git client/IDE, either.