[Enhancement] Context menu with actions

[kristijanhusak]

Hi, would you be interested in adding a context menu that helps executing most common tasks? Similar to NERDTree menu when you press M. Maybe something like this:

Selection option: Enter: Confirm:

I made a prototype (from screenshots), but i would make a PR with more robust and extendable solution.

[justinmk]

No, that is pretty much the antithesis of the plugin :)

Did you try x, :Shdo, Z! etc.?

[kristijanhusak]

Yeah, of course i did, and i used it until now, but i think it requires much more effort than it should. Ok, i guess i'll create it only for myself, or as a separate plugin. Thanks.

[justinmk]

Most of the work in renaming/moving a file(s) is typing the new name. And for bulk operations, nerdtree/netrw are basically useless.

Creating a new folder/file is actually less work in dirvish than nerdtree or netrw:

:Dirvish foo
:e %bar

[kristijanhusak]

For the bulk actions, i agree completely, but most of the time that's not used. I'm missing few things that do not exist out of the box in vim or sh:

• Creating file in non existing nested folder. Basically mkdir -p my/sub/path && touch my/sub/path/myfile.txt
• As you said, renaming and moving. Most of renaming for me is just adding or removing part of the file name. Shdo requires me to write the whole file name.
• Z! mapping is really hard to press on English keyboard (shift + z + 1)

These are definitely not a big issues, i even consider it nitpicking, but it's still nice to have if someone wants it.

[justinmk]

Creating file in non existing nested folder.

I use this autocmd: https://github.com/justinmk/config/blob/91c792a4f75d9200944f8e21863ea03eaee4e3c1/.config/nvim/init.vim#L1180

Then this works automatically, even if foo/bar/ path doesn't exist:

:e foo/bar/baz.txt
:w

Shdo requires me to write the whole file name.

x prefills the command, and {} substitutes the filename.

x
:Shdo mv {} {}<CR>
<use normal-mode commands to edit the target name>
Z!

No menus, no wizards, full control.

Or use :Rename from https://github.com/tpope/vim-eunuch .

Z! mapping is really hard to press on English keyboard

I use US layout, it's quite easy. Hold the right-hand shift key... (and learn to touch-type the number row :)

The mnemonic for Z! is Vi's ZZ / ZQ commands, which are also much easier to type than :w<CR> / :q<cr>.

[kristijanhusak]

Didn't know about that autocmd, really nice.

Yeah that works too. Most of the time i'm not doing anything in the confirmation window.

Were there any other requests like this? I already wrote something that is functional, and i will probably create a separate repo for it. Would you link it in the readme?

[kristijanhusak]

Nevermind, i won't create it. Thanks for your help!