dystroy

Hey, come tell me more in my virtual coffee room : https://miaou.dystroy.org/3?Code_Croissants

Wow. Thank you. As an open-source author it really helps to get this kind of comments.

You can download binaries from there: https://dystroy.org/broot/documentation/installation/

Did Norton Commander trim the tree in order to show a deeper overview ? I don't think it did (or I don't remember that feature).

Not now. Sorting isn't really compatible with the tree view idea.

There's the "fat whales spotting" mode, which only displays one level and sorts by size, though, and I plan to extend this mode to other sortings.

Using it to replace ctrl-p in vim is something I think a lot about those days. I guess I'll have to do it.

I did in the past but the problem of asccinema for applications like vi or broot is that people don't really understand: you hit two or three keys and the stuff is magically done.

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

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.

We're really good at parsing code, thanks to languages designed to be easy to read and to our style guides (unless we don't have one, of course). Highlighting keywords is uselessly tiring for the eyes IMO.

What matters most is to separate code from what's not code and which doesn't follow the same rules: comments and string-like literals.

In my vim color scheme (https://github.com/Canop/patine) I only have three colors: one for code, one for comments, one for strings, and I find reading the code easier and less tiring this way.

Regarding Bloom Drive you mention

> And Bloom Drive is encrypted using SSL.

You mean the connection is encrypted, right ? Or was there a typo ?

Hey, broot is great!

And I'm totally impartial, being the author.

Joke apart, as I've been told broot was being mentioned here, I'm available if you have any question. I'll do a SHOW-HN post some day but I'm currently postponing it because of a bunch of new features in the making.

Reference: https://github.com/Canop/broot

Miaou is kind of old now. If you look at one of the old rooms (for example https://dystroy.org/miaou/3?Code_Croissants) and hit ctrl-F you'll see an uninterrupted flow of messages dating back from 2012, when it was released. I created it because we needed its features back at that time, and that my friends and me didn't find them anywhere (TBH it seems that many of them are still unique to Miaou).

A chat like Miaou wouldn't really make sense with a lesser protocol. People come to Miaou to be sure no ping is ever lost, that the guy in front of them can directly see the game in progress, that the external proven identities are displayed before entry in private rooms (Miaou is mostly used today to coordinate game teams), that other users correctly see the tabular data being shared (or that they can edit in place the whiteboard), etc. The common set of enhancement is what makes Miaou, not something that can be progressive.

Being lucky is hardly a strategy, though.

Maybe you should give them the link to this discussion. They'll learn that we're not on their site to be amazed by the fact they know basic html and we'd prefer our articles more readable.