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pro-tip: I think a lot of people would really appreciate it if you put a quick blurb about installation at the top of the GitHub README and on Broot's landing page. It took me about 30 or so seconds to find the installation page, which gave me enough time to think that this was still new enough that you don't want to hand it out like crazy yet.

Those of us who like to charge in to CLI tools all guns-blazing-like would appreciate it. Also, it would immediately communicate that the project is written in Rust, which some people may like.

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Author here: thanks for the tip. I'll do that. edit: done.

Note that broot is far from new and is reliable on linux. I used it daily in the past 10 months. The only thing which prevented me from tagging it 1.0 is the rough edges on Windows.

rough edges on Windows

This could use some documentation imo. Like the essentials of what 'supported on Win10+' means (is it supported in powershell, or command prompt or bash running on msys or ... ?) and how to laucnh/install it. I only looked briefly, ran broot in cmd but the only thing I get out of broot is that it creates a file <AppData>\Roaming\dystroy\broot\data\launcher\bash\1 and a link (even when entering 'n' instead of 'Y' when it asks to install!!). So I figured it maybe needs to find a 'br' command and added a function 'br' in powershell and launched that, but it still says it's not installed.

The problem is I don't know exactly what works or not on windows... I'd need an involved tester/coder familiar with Windows to help me for that (you can volunteer on miaou: https://miaou.dystroy.org/3).

Another developer already started to work on a `br` function for windows: https://github.com/Canop/broot/issues/78

Aha, so that function is indeed the way to go. I'll chime in.

As a Mac and brew user I would have needed to see "brew install broot" somewhere - since there is no Mac binary I was not sure how to test this until I looked at the comments here.

I am not sure if you have something to do with the "brew" installer for this on MacOS? Or does someone else create that?

Anyways, looks awesome, I think I'll use this at least for listing files by size.

The reason I don't mention brew today is that I don't manage the formula myself and I don't check it. I'm not even sure of what it does.

broot looks really useful - thanks! One comment: on the configuration web page, it states:

"The easiest way to read and edit broot's configuration file is to go the help screen (using ?) then to type :open."

When I do that, I get "verb not found: "open"". Not quite sure what is supposed to happen here. I found the config file and editted it manually, but was some magic supposed to happen with the "open" verb?

Hum... this is quite an outdated part of the documentation, sorry about that. You can do :e

will this work with explorer associations on Windows ? like .doc and .pdf files ?

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