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67 points by hexomancer ↗ HN
This is a spiritual adaptation of oil.nvim for vscode. The main idea is you edit the filesystem by editing the current directory listing's text buffer. For example, if I want to rename a file, I just rename it in the listing file. This is extremely powerful because it translates all of your text-editing skills immediately into file editing capabilities.

Some features:

* Create/rename/move/delete files by editing the current directory listing's textbuffer

* Filter using glob pattern

* Trash and undo support

* Works even in remote-ssh workspaces

* Works across multiple vscode windows

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turboponyy
"Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power" - some Emacs user, probably
senectus1
haha yeah this'll never bee a problem with AI plugged into your VSCode :-D
gschizas
This looks cool, but I'm a bit wary of publishers that aren't verified.

> Do you trust the publisher "Ali Mostafavi"?

> The extension voil is published by Ali Mostafavi. This is the first extension > you're installing from this publisher.

> Ali Mostafavi is not verified.

> Visual Studio Code has no control over the behavior of third-party extensions, including how they manage your personal data. Proceed only if you trust the publisher.

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SwiftyBug
Is it possible to make an extension like that for Zed?
weakfish
AFAIK not with their current extremely limited API, but it’s on their roadmap to have a more extendable editor.
nsonha
When I was a student about 10 years ago there was a custom shell that works like this and even had an extension for sublime, but for the life of me I cannot remember its name.
dcreater
Falling to see why `touch newfile` doesn't accomplish this as fast if not faster and without yet another extension.
weakfish
Awesome work! I’ll definitely try this out.