Can't imagine using my system without this.

  • mac@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    What are your primary use cases for Yazi? I'm trying to see if it'll fit into my workflow.

    I've been experimenting with it on my MacBook Pro. When I navigate to a few Go projects I'm working on, syntax highlighting only seems to be available in the file preview. After that, it appears to just open in plain Vi.

    At work, I use Windows and primarily code in C#.

    Is Yazi more geared towards file management?

    • cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      It hooks into nearly every base utility I can't live without (fzf, jq, helix, ripgrep). If you're on windows im not sure you're going to get a ton unless you live in WSL.

      You can pick the editor it'll open by default, which should be configurable with comparable syntax highlighting. Vi can pretty much look like whatever. I think it'll default to vscode on windows.

      Im not sure what you'd use it for but manage files, but I would have poked it and probably moved along while I was still on windows.

      Edit: the other benefit you might not see has a lot to do with support of mime types.

      https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml

      The xdg open protocol will open whatever app is assigned to handle type locally. Which is probably why it defaults to editor.