dragon VS z.lua

https://github.com/mwh/dragon https://github.com/nik012003/ripdrag

I write a lot of extremely simple but handy shell functions.

This one lets me drag/and drop things out of a terminal session (kind of) into applications with https://github.com/mwh/dragon and i use it way too often!

I'm used on a terminal workflow (ranger fm in the past, switched to lf) on a desktopless wm. I prefer it that way, the only thing missing is drag 'n' drop functionality, mainly for web apps. There is dragon but I'm considering installing a light gui fm for the job.

Not a direct answer, but maybe still useful… They way I handle this is using a drag and drop tool.

Nice, do you know about dragon, it seems pretty similar?

For an X-Y type answer, you may want to consider dragon.

For me it has to be dragon

For me it has to be dragon which is a drag-and-drop utility tool used from the terminal. I like running a minimal setup so I don't have a GUI file manager but I often have to upload files and rather than using the browser file picker, which is inconvenient, I can just use dragon.

Install this: https://github.com/mwh/dragon

Lets you use drag-and-drop to interact with terminal. I mostly use it to select files from ranger to drag them into thunderbird, but it can also receive files and write their paths to stdout.

https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua is quite nice and has more features, e.g. fzf integration and an interactive mode.

Then install: - z.lua - better cd - exa - better ls - trash - rm deletes completely - trash moves files to trash, so you can recover them - massren - absolutely the best file/folder renamer (especially for devs) - tldr - better than man

Me too. I like it customizability and flexibility. It's even better when combined with the ranger-plugin that come z.lua, which I have bound to cj (I used auto-jump before this, which used that binding as well).

wget https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua/raw/master/ranger_zlua.pyi && chmod +x ~/.config/ranger/plugins/ranger_zlua.py

z.lua

I personally use z.lua, but if you're a Rust fan there's also zoxide. Both are multi-platform and highly configurable.

With z you can CD into a directory like ~/Documents/Foo/Bar/Baz by executing z baz.

I used to keep some directory bookmarks with apparix, but nowadays I just use z.lua.

Currently zabb mainly supports the zoxide implementation of z. It works ok with z.lua, fasd and z, but may not find the shortest abbreviations for those. It may work for other implementations if they support the z -e command. I welcome PRs to expand zabb to other implementations.