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Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager

13 pointsby duguyue100yesterday at 11:37 PM5 commentsview on HN

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konmoktoday at 2:14 AM

I don't think the level of reliability necessary for a file manager is achievable with vibe coding. This is an area where small bugs can cause immediate and catastrophic data loss.

If you're shopping for a file manager, I recommend avoiding any project that incorporates a significant amount of LLM-generated code. Maybe in theory it could be reviewed as thoroughly as handwritten code; in practice that never happens.

duguyue100yesterday at 11:37 PM

Midnight Commander has always been my favorite terminal file manager. It's feature-rich, fast, and actually tries to be a file manager compared to modern alternatives. However, there are quite some features that I never used, and I couldn't configure a Vim bindings that works well for me.

With OpenCode, I can finally make my own terminal file manager. I borrowed the main design concepts from Midnight Commander and some behavior from NVim-Tree file explorer.

I hope you would like it, at least I do. Since this project is entirely vibe-coded, so I'm not going to accept PR from the community, but feel free to open issues and fork it.

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daoistmonktoday at 2:12 AM

The AGENTS.md is hilarious! I like the caveman mode and classical mode seems.. interesting!

alonsovmtoday at 12:20 AM

cool let me try it. and 'ill give you my feedback