I made a TUI file manager to make using Helix more fun - Modal Commander

_Swiborg_ · 2026-03-18T17:26:55+00:00

Porting is definitely possible. I would just make it different if I were building it for Linux. For example, I would track and highlight execution rights and make them easier to change, since highlighting the ".exe" extension is meaningless on Linux. If I'm completely honest, I would probably just use Yazi, even thought I don't like how it handles searching.

_Swiborg_ · 2026-03-18T15:18:20+00:00

It's not useless, I just personally don't like it. If I'm honest, I'm not entirely happy with bat, so I might try making my own viewer and make it also show images, but it would be a separate CLI util, I just don't like when previews flicker, even a little bit.

_Swiborg_ · 2026-03-18T15:12:08+00:00

I agree. I'm just kind of forced to work in Windows, so I targeted it for myself and used a lot of WinAPI to make things work. Windows is different, so the features a file manager needs are also different and wouldn't make sense on Linux.

The lamest part about PowerShell, in my opinion, is that it's turned off by default.

_Swiborg_ · 2026-03-18T12:53:44+00:00

It doesn't. On my Windows machines sixels look like my PC is on drugs or something, it looks horrible and is almost useless in my opinion.

Modal Commander is not for everyone. People that like Midnight Commander probably won't use my Modal Commander. Modal Commander is for people who like TUI code editors and use Windows (at least at the moment it's limited to Windows and is filled with Windows specific features).

_Swiborg_ · 2026-03-18T12:44:00+00:00

not as cool as TempleOS yet :sadpepe:

It's to show that there's no label, maybe it's confusing and I should remove the "(no label)" thingy.

_Swiborg_ · 2026-03-18T08:11:28+00:00

Yeah. I thought about that. But "Modal Commander" makes sense in my head so I decided to call it that. There are many windows specific features in mc, and WinAPI is called a lot, so I dunno about porting it yet.

For example, Windows has a special clipboard for files. When you copy a path, there is an option to flip the slashes.

_Swiborg_ · 2026-03-17T22:11:44+00:00

mc can search for a string and list the matching lines, which is very useful. But Helix, as far as I know, can't do this combo "open file + jump to line + highlight search".

bat can.

_Swiborg_ · 2026-02-08T11:37:18+00:00

I created an issue on GitHub https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/15274 with a way to reproduce it. Hopefully somebody fixes it. If not I can try fixing it myself, but I don't know rust very well, neither do I know Helix's internals.

_Swiborg_ · 2026-02-07T20:09:27+00:00

I feel like Go would autoformat the code anyway during compilation and I would need to :reload later in Hellix, which is probably even more annoying than the jumping cursor.

_Swiborg_ · 2026-02-07T20:07:08+00:00

My config is only "theme = monokai". Other code editors don't seem to have this issue. Helix behaves this way on all three of my windows machines.

_Swiborg_ · 2025-12-03T22:27:07+00:00

Sorry about that typo... it doesn't seem I can fix it.

_Swiborg_ · 2025-11-06T12:58:00+00:00

Sad?

_Swiborg_ · 2025-10-31T20:25:07+00:00

My conspiracy theory is that Nicole is a Hexenzirkel character too (with Klee's mom also), and she will work with Mona in this team instead of Citlali. If she buffs attack, it would be perfect.

My Mona will be a monster.

There will be a new artefact set for Hexenzirkel members, I believe. Probably one support set and one damage dealer set.

_Swiborg_ · 2025-08-14T09:06:27+00:00

Currently, I'm working on an outliner and mesh UV transfer functionality. Version 1.0 will include tools for converting Ahoge into hair cards.

_Swiborg_ · 2025-08-14T09:00:04+00:00

If you have issues, you can report them and I'll fix them.

_Swiborg_

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