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Re:Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a ... by hexomancer on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @02:47AM (#44568558)
> Creating empty files is rarely useful or necessary

I kind of disagree? Most files were once created as an empty file! (at least that's the case in my workflow).

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Re:Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a ... by ckolkey on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @03:21AM (#44568777)
I've always just used `:e <filename>` - never saw the appeal of oil.nvim for that use case. But for other kinds of modifications it's nifty.
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Re:Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a ... by globular-toast on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:55AM (#44569578)
The normal pattern, in Unix-like systems at least, is to just write to a non-existent file. There is very little reason to create an empty file first.

In Emacs I can even open a file in a non-existent directory and it will create all the containing directories when I try to save. So I rarely even use mkdir.

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