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initbox

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Registered: 2008-09-27

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Where are all the Vi-File Managers?

The day I first encountered the word "Vi", I figured it was the name of some sort of mythical beast from the ancient times. I initiated a search on Google. Of course, the first page that I click is the Wikipedia page. As soon as I laid my eyes on the screenshot, I was completely dazzled! What was this thing, so simple and yet so beautiful? Turns out, it ain't no beast after all! I had to find out more about this "Vi"-thing... I kept on reading, it seemed so amazing! Word after word I read about it. It was... So... Good... With my shaking hands, I opened a terminal window, and entered the two magic characters. The feeling was getting stronger every minute, but I had to resist the urge to go nuts. Moments later I was able to hit the return-key. Instantaneously, it appeared on the screen. The whole room lit up, and a choir of angels appeared behind me, chanting incredible tunes and I felt as if God himself had infused me with incredible powers. This was something unheard of! It was so elegant, so pure, so awesome! I was completely frozen, but I was soon able to shake out of it. The feeling was unbearable, I had spent so long of my life without this awesome piece of software that had to be a figment of my imagination! And then I was overcome with joy!

Ever since then, I have laughed at the infidels that call some piece of junk a "text editor". There can only be one true text editor! Any software that doesn't work like The One is simply bad - laughable, an abomination!

Vimperator turned the browser they call Firefox into something awesome, it is truly amazing.

But, one day at a terminal, I asked myself: "where is the Vi file manager? Surely there must be such a thing!" Google, like usual, gave me many results. Most were useless. But it seems there is hope after all! http://vifm.sourceforge.net/ The only thing is, it seems to still be in alpha. And only one developer, what an outrage!

It's not even in the repos Does anyone use it?

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Re: Where are all the Vi-File Managers?

You can actually use Vim as a file manager, I guess you already knew that...

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tdy

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From: Sacremende

Registered: 2008-12-14

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Re: Where are all the Vi-File Managers?

It's not even in the repos Does anyone use it?

It's in the AUR.. seems to have quite a few users.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6011

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initbox

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Registered: 2008-09-27

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Re: Where are all the Vi-File Managers?

It's not even in the repos Does anyone use it?

It's in the AUR.. seems to have quite a few users.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6011

Wow, I missed that. Sweet.

Even though I could have easily built it by myself as well...

E: it seems to be pretty barebones for now, atleast comparing to the MC.

Last edited by initbox (2009-01-03 15:18:25)

senkil

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From: Norway

Registered: 2009-01-10

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Re: Where are all the Vi-File Managers?

Nice story-writing, feel just the same You should check out vimExplorer (file manager script for vim). I just installed it, seems great. It has a nice bookmark solution and lots of convenient keyboard-shortcuts. It also asks you for confirmation when deleting files (vifm doesn't, a bit risky).

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1950

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initbox

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Re: Where are all the Vi-File Managers?

Nice story-writing, feel just the same You should check out vimExplorer (file manager script for vim). I just installed it, seems great. It has a nice bookmark solution and lots of convenient keyboard-shortcuts. It also asks you for confirmation when deleting files (vifm doesn't, a bit risky).

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1950

Yeah I found this one earlier myself as well. It's certainly nice.

I guess it concludes my search... But it seems file managers aren't my thing in any case. Sure, they are nice when you want to get a nice overall image of a directory, but for general file management... The shell is awesome.