Explorer: file operations with the mouse and keyboard, drag-and-drop, uploads #54

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2026-10-22T21:25:05-04:00

jared commented

2026-10-22 21:25:05 -04:00

The explorer could only browse and create files through a dialog. It now works like VS Code's.

Mouse

Right-click a file, a folder or empty space for a menu: Open / Open preview / Open changes, New file…, New folder…, Upload files here…, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate, Copy path, Copy relative path, Mention to Claude (@path), Download, Rename…, Delete.
Ctrl/⌘+click and Shift+click select several items.
Drag items onto a folder to move them; hold Ctrl/Alt to copy. A closed folder opens when you hover it. Dropping a folder into itself is refused.
Drag files or whole folders from the desktop onto a folder (or anywhere in the pane) to upload them, keeping their structure. A name clash asks once: Replace, Skip or Keep both ("name (1).ext"), with "do this for the rest too". Progress shows at the bottom.
Drag a file or a tab onto the terminal to type @path into Claude's prompt.
The toolbar has New file, New folder, Upload and Collapse all.

Keyboard

F2 renames in place: the name box selects the name without its extension.
Delete moves to the trash, after asking.
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V copy, cut and paste files; pasting files copied on the desktop uploads them.
Ctrl+A selects all; ⇧+arrows extend the selection; Esc clears a multi-selection or a cut.

Safety

Delete goes to a per-session trash in /var/lib/devdesk/trash/ for 7 days, and the toast's Undo restores it.
Nothing is overwritten unless you choose Replace.
Symlinks are moved and deleted as links, never followed.
Every path stays inside the session folder.

Server: --fs-mkdir, --fs-move, --fs-copy, --fs-delete, --fs-restore, --fs-put (any file up to 25 MB) and --fs-download, in libexec/devdesk-fsops.sh, with bats tests.

Found while testing

An escape bug. Bash's set -e doesn't reach into $(...), so a failed check inside a nested capture carried on with an empty path. fs-mkdir out/x, with out a symlink pointing outside the session folder, created /x. Every nested capture now ends in || exit 1, a second dd_fs_inside guard checks each result, and a test asserts /x is never created. (The empty /x from that test run was removed.)
A stale-tree race. A folder listing still in flight could overwrite a newer one. The newest request now always wins.
sessionAction didn't return the server's JSON. The 0.10.3 change never applied, so "Close split panes" always said "No split panes".

The explorer could only browse and create files through a dialog. It now works like VS Code's. **Mouse** - Right-click a file, a folder or empty space for a menu: Open / Open preview / Open changes, New file…, New folder…, Upload files here…, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate, Copy path, Copy relative path, Mention to Claude (@path), Download, Rename…, Delete. - Ctrl/⌘+click and Shift+click select several items. - Drag items onto a folder to move them; hold Ctrl/Alt to copy. A closed folder opens when you hover it. Dropping a folder into itself is refused. - Drag files or whole folders from the desktop onto a folder (or anywhere in the pane) to upload them, keeping their structure. A name clash asks once: Replace, Skip or Keep both ("name (1).ext"), with "do this for the rest too". Progress shows at the bottom. - Drag a file or a tab onto the terminal to type `@path` into Claude's prompt. - The toolbar has New file, New folder, Upload and Collapse all. **Keyboard** - F2 renames in place: the name box selects the name without its extension. - Delete moves to the trash, after asking. - Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V copy, cut and paste files; pasting files copied on the desktop uploads them. - Ctrl+A selects all; ⇧+arrows extend the selection; Esc clears a multi-selection or a cut. **Safety** - Delete goes to a per-session trash in `/var/lib/devdesk/trash/` for 7 days, and the toast's **Undo** restores it. - Nothing is overwritten unless you choose Replace. - Symlinks are moved and deleted as links, never followed. - Every path stays inside the session folder. **Server:** `--fs-mkdir`, `--fs-move`, `--fs-copy`, `--fs-delete`, `--fs-restore`, `--fs-put` (any file up to 25 MB) and `--fs-download`, in `libexec/devdesk-fsops.sh`, with bats tests. **Found while testing** - **An escape bug.** Bash's `set -e` doesn't reach into `$(...)`, so a failed check inside a nested capture carried on with an empty path. `fs-mkdir out/x`, with `out` a symlink pointing outside the session folder, created `/x`. Every nested capture now ends in `|| exit 1`, a second `dd_fs_inside` guard checks each result, and a test asserts `/x` is never created. (The empty `/x` from that test run was removed.) - **A stale-tree race.** A folder listing still in flight could overwrite a newer one. The newest request now always wins. - **`sessionAction` didn't return the server's JSON.** The 0.10.3 change never applied, so "Close split panes" always said "No split panes".

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2026-10-22 21:25:21 -04:00

Explorer: download folders (and several files) as one archive #58

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2026-10-22 21:25:21 -04:00

Changes view: stage, unstage, discard and commit #59

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2026-10-22 21:25:44 -04:00

feat: v0.11.0 VS Code-like explorer, markdown preview, search in files

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2026-10-22 21:25:44 -04:00

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