Show HN: Tere – A Faster Alternative to CD+ls

• tere

  13 1,623 7.9 Rust

  Terminal file explorer

Funny, to me showing the keystrokes felt like a cliche in "modern"/flashy CLI app readmes :) I guess it's more often used in youtube videos.

I used screenkey to display the keystrokes and Peek to record the gif. I actually wrote some instructions for myself so I remember how I did it if I want to update the gif: https://github.com/mgunyho/tere/blob/master/demo/README.md

• fzf

  407 59,739 9.6 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

I use cd+ls all the time, even though double tab or fzf [1] in theory work better.

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-lin...

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• vsnetrw

  1 16 5.8 JavaScript

  🗂️ A split file explorer for vscode

This feels a lot like Vim's built in file explorer (netrw).

I find these kinds of text based, keyboard centric explorers to be far superior for navigating around a codebase, then giving you back your screen space as soon as you're found what you're looking for.

I implemented something similar but for VSCode: https://github.com/danprince/vsnetrw

• walk

  23 3,001 7.5 Go

  Terminal file manager (by antonmedv)

• fd

  172 31,581 8.8 Rust

  A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

(...at least essentially, my setup is a bit more tunable and complex, I have a few of these with varying flags depending on the situation and goal)

[0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#using-fd-with-fzf

• nnn

  200 18,170 8.1 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

• ranger

  165 14,889 6.5 Python

  A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

  

Looks great! I was thinking of a rusty pet project for the same thing :)

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Ranger is a great alternative tool, it can even be integrated into vim

[0]: https://github.com/ranger/ranger

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• type-to-nav.xplr

  1 7 1.8 Lua

  type-to-nav port for xplr

xplr author here (xplr.dev). Nice tool. Note that there's a plugin https://github.com/sayanarijit/type-to-nav.xplr that does something similar. But I just realized that tere can also be used as a more generic type-to-nav helper for xplr.

  xplr.config.modes.builtin.default.key_bindings.on_key.T = {

• lf

  108 7,193 8.9 Go

  Terminal file manager

• fff

  22 4,022 0.0 Shell

  📁 A simple file manager written in bash.

• ccd

  3 5 4.1 C++

  Edge first cd replacement tool for Windows cmd shell.

Similar idea for Windows:

https://github.com/seligman/ccd

ccd is more concerned with an edge-first search, and since it's Windows, actually changing the directory involves a thread insertion in the cmd process to do the work ... which somehow works.

• orderless

  32 675 8.8 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs completion style that matches multiple regexps in any order

I like it. Would be nice to see orderless-style (https://github.com/oantolin/orderless) completion, and a config not to enter the directory by narrowing the completion to one, requiring enter to be pressed.

• lightning-cd

  1 220 10.0 Python

  lightning-quick mc/cd/autojump/rofi hybrid

Heh, I implemented almost exactly this same thing several years ago in Python[1], with the main difference just being the amount of polish and feature set. (I was, and continue to be, a very distractible person)

Good to see the idea getting more traction!

[1] https://github.com/fouric/lightning-cd

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