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Canop / broot

A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot
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Request: Verb: Toggle descending/following all symlinks #856

Open AndydeCleyre opened 3 months ago

AndydeCleyre commented 3 months ago

In some directories I use symlinks to other directories, and I would like to be able to filter down the tree, including children of symlinks.

I understand it's probably a bad idea to turn that behavior on by default, but I'd like to interactively toggle it, when I'm in a situation where it seems reasonable.

Canop commented 3 months ago

This situation where it seems reasonable, isn't it when the visible tree is some path or inside ?

AndydeCleyre commented 3 months ago

I'm not sure what you mean, sorry. To my mind the visible tree is always a path.

I guess this would require some defense against infinitely recursive folder structures.

AndydeCleyre commented 3 months ago

For example if music is arranged by artist and year and genre in the filesystem, using symlinks to have the same file appear in multiple folders (1990s, rock), I'd like to be able to filter the tree and see all structured path results.

Maybe it could have a very limited maximum link depth to keep things from getting out of hand?

Canop commented 3 months ago

Ok, it's clear.