trapd00r/vidir

edit directory in $EDITOR (better than vim . with netrw)

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-08-30 · latest 2025-07-06

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Is < https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir > the same as `vidir` from < https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ >? Shout out to moreutils, there are many nice utilities, and there's a `moreutils` package in most distributions. Update: Looking at…
comment by ilyagr · 2025-07-06 · in Take Two: Eshell
…give Emacs another try some day, I swear, and Dired is one of the reasons. Edit: [1] I linked to https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir here at first. That is a fork; vidir comes from https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ . You probably want the…
comment by networked · 2025-07-06 · in Take Two: Eshell
…let's say I was thrilled when I saw someone replicated that behavior as a general Unix tool. [1] https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wd...
comment by dig1 · 2023-12-30 · in Hidden gems of moreutils
https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir looks like a fork of moreutils' vidir.
comment by jwilk · 2017-08-30 · in Roamer: A Plain-Text File Manager
vidir is another one of these. Despite the name it works with any EDITOR. https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir Seems like the main difference compared to Roamer is that it just uses numbered lines instead of hashes.
comment by polm23 · 2017-08-30 · in Roamer: A Plain-Text File Manager