simple file viewer for text files about gdu

[dundee]

Thanks so much, @dundee

You welcome!

[dundee]

The xdg-open way can be implemented quite easily, but the rest is hard (maybe even impossible), because of the way how the terminal UI library works. But I am not sure if it's nice to open files from gdu (terminal app) into GUI apps. Internal file viewer would be probably better (but not easy to implement).

[ouuan]

I think this is not what a du (disk usage analyzer) does. Usually, a du is used to find which file takes the most space, not to browse the files. And text files are usually not big.

Maybe you are looking for something like nnn?

[admirabilis]

I see the use case for this. When using a file manager like mc, I am generally browsing where I know mostly everything - whereas with gdu, I'm generally exploring new places. Many times, while using ncdu, I've had a "what's this file?" moment, and I had to copy the directory path and paste it into a new shell just to view what the supposed file contains.

I guess a simple option to implement would be a key to spawn $PAGER (which generally can be used for text or compressed text), and another key for running xdg-open (which will call a GUI for any file type).

Another key to run a shell in $PWD could be more troublesome to implement, the previous two keys should cover most use cases.

[admirabilis]

Thanks so much, @dundee