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Show HN: Voil – Oil.nvim for VSCode

by hexomancer on 2/1/25, 11:06 AM with 1 comments

I wrote a vscode extension which allows you to create/rename/move/delete files by editing a text buffer. If you are familiar with oil.nvim, this is similar. In my opinion this is vastly superior to the built-in file manager because it allows you to utilize your existing text-editing muscle memory into file manipulation skills, as opposed to the built-in file explorer which requires mouse or at least memorizing new keyboard shortcuts. There is a video demo on the github page here: https://github.com/ahrm/voil.

  • by berkes on 2/1/25, 11:51 AM

    Wow, nice achievement! It's funny to see the amount of community effort around vscode to make it behave like vim.

    I've never got to like oil.vim. Tried, but it doesn't stick.

    I guess, partly because it doesn't solve a real problem for me: commandline (bash, zsh) with gnutools is good enough.

    But mostly because doing stuff to files, for me, is more about the actions (commands, events) and less about the end result. With oil, it feels a bit like I describe the state I want in a text file (in a DSL) but my head keeps translating that from the actions I'd need to take. Probably just 30+ years of commandline thinking worn into my brain too deep.