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tui-essentials

tui-essentials

danielbibit

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Manages basic TUI tools for VSCode
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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tui-essentials - VSCode Extension

Integrate Ranger, LazyGit and Television into your VSCode workflow.

Features

  • Replace the default file explorer with Ranger
  • Replace the default git interface with LazyGit
  • Replace the default fuzzy search with Television

Requirements

Binaries

The following binaries must be available in your PATH:

  • Ranger
  • LazyGit
  • Television

Configurations

Ranger

To make ranger open files with vscode, add the following to your rifle.conf file (~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf):

mime ^text = code "$@"
ext .* = code "$@"

Extension Commands

The extension don't provide any default keybindings. You can add your own keybindings to the following commands in the keybindings.json file.

  • 'tui-essentials.launchRanger' - Launch Ranger in the termianl panel
  • 'tui-essentials.runTaskAndClosePanel' - Helper function to run a task and close the terminal panel after it finishes

Demo

Lazygit

LazyGit Demo

Television

Television Demo

Ranger

Ranger Demo

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release of the extension.

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