[HN Gopher] File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a m...
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File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust
interface
Author : vjekoslav
Score : 43 points
Date : 2025-02-18 16:24 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (filepilot.tech)
(TXT) w3m dump (filepilot.tech)
| SanJacobs wrote:
| With everything hand-written from scratch in C, just like God
| intended. Great work.
| antonvs wrote:
| Proof that the answer to the problem of evil is "Yeah, so
| what?"
| L0th4r wrote:
| Looks great. I ran a test browsing a folder of pdfs but it does
| not look like File Pilot likes previwing pdfs with Acrobat set as
| default pdf viewer; no preview/thumbnail shown for pdfs.
| webdevver wrote:
| being able to hold down Ctrl-T, and just have it open tabs at the
| speed of the typematic rate is such a joy. it is really honestly
| disgusting (and I don't use that word lightly) how long it takes
| for explorer.exe to open a tab, open a context menu, or (god
| forbid!) open a window. genuine breath of fresh air to have a
| file explorer that isn't hot garbage.
| gervwyk wrote:
| Please make a mac version.
| huhtenberg wrote:
| Found plenty of screencaps on the Handmade page [1] and it looks
| refreshingly snappy ... and under 2MB in size!
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| Excellent work, OP. Complements to the chef.
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| [1] https://filepilot.handmade.network
| quyleanh wrote:
| Just wow. Seeing the demo, I just hope Microsoft can do somthing
| like that with current Explorer app. It's good now but still can
| improve more with something like File Pilot
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