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First of all, thanks for this program. It's very useful to me. Are you open to adding filename sorting instead of the default vector sort? I use nnn (the terminal file viewer) all the time and I'm often renaming files with one tmux pane while another tmux pane has nnn open to look through directory contents. The current sorting is way different from nnn which makes this process difficult. I've forked the repo and changed the sorting to match almost perfectly. I was thinking it could be cool to have a --sort <algo_name> flag with options default and nnn to start with? Is that outside the scope of the project?

Here's my commit that changed the sorting for reference.

on save perhaps, when the temp file is saved show the stdout of a dry run inside of vim

I have the following file: 　-SsV0tZMUCNE.webm (unicode representation is \343\200\200-SsV0tZMUCNE.webm) which vimv cannot open.

I get the following error:

vimv "　-SsV0tZMUCNE.webm"
Error: the input file '-SsV0tZMUCNE.webm' does not exist.

I wanted to use this program along with lf but couldn't find an option to install this using homebrew. Could there be an option to do that

Steps to reproduce:

mkdir a b
vimv a b

Swapping the two lines and saving yield the following error message:Error: cannot overwrite the existing directory 'b'.

I'm running vimv 1.7.3.

Currently, if no commandline arguments are passed the program quits. It would be better if invoking with no arguments cause the program to open the editor with all the files/folder in the current directory to rename.
This was my thought process when I installed the program for the first time. I was confused when the program exited when tried running the program with no args. Had to look at the source code to figure out that it exits if no args are provided

My current workaround for this is to add a shell alias like this

alias br="vimv *"

I mean i understand it's a small change.. but hey, it's two less keys pressed

Using git mv and git mv --dry-run if specified?

I realize, this feature might complicate the implementation, but you also might find it interesting.

1. Open two files: vimv a b.
2. Exchange the file's names, so a becomes b and b becomes a.
3. Save and exit.
   What happens: Error: the output file 'b' already exists, use --force to overwrite.
   Suggestion: actually, rename the files.

I know, this renamer (written in Go) supports it.