Comment by dietr1ch | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dietr1ch | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

If you are getting to check out bat, you might want to check,

- rg (ripgrep): A grep replacement

- sk (skim): A grep/fzf/fzy replacement

- fd: A find replacement that's .gitignore+.ignore aware.

- eza: A replacement for ls that's git aware

- broot: A TUI file finder to browse large directories

- yazi: A file manager (I haven't used this one too much)

sk+rg + gawk in action to find files matching some text,

            sk \
              --ansi \
              --interactive \
              --cmd 'rg --color=always --line-number "{}"' --preview 'bat --color=always $(echo {} | gawk -F: "{print \$1}") --highlight-line $(echo {} | gawk -F: "{print \$2}")' \
            | gawk \
                -F: \
                '{print $1}'

> eza: A replacement for ls that's git aware

I've been using eza (and exa before it) for a long time, but only for the pretty and colored output. I didn't even know about the git support! I now added the --git flag to my alias and will try it out. Thank you!

I love broot, I use it for everything.

I also use foot+fzy as a tiny sway dmenu replacement.. I started to make other kinds of custom tiny TUI popup menus using this strategy and it's great, since it all uses my terminal style and each is an extremely tiny 1 or 2 line script.

can broot scroll the file preview on the right? ranger can do it, so far I feel ranger is better

Ranger seems quite slow for the directories I tried to use it on. Use lf, may give broot a try.

speedy for me all these years

It can but it scrolls the cursor instead of managing real mouse scroll events a la vim mouse=a so it's not ideal.

tbh I prefer to use less for previewing files anyway.

Love these, my only change is lsd over exa (pure personal preference)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com