Re:Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls
by hnlmorg on Friday July 15, 2022 @11:19AM
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> The main motivation for me was to make something that works just the way I want, and secondarily, to write something fun
Those two reasons are all the reasons needed for any personal project. I've created so many tools based around those two reasons alone :D
To me, there really is a significant difference in friction when navigating in vim vs tere. Maybe it's because I need to use shift to type '/' on my keyboard layout. But I also have to press enter twice to cd after searching.
The point about opening the files within vim is valid, and I have been considering adding the option to call xdg-open on highlighted files, like many such tools do. I haven't decided yet if that's within the scope of tere.
> It's just a common problem so you'll probably find a lot of people have already solved this with other tools
I agree, and indeed there are a lot of existing alternatives as mentioned in the README. The main motivation for me was to make something that works just the way I want, and secondarily, to write something fun in Rust.