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[mwaitzman]

When will there be binaries for Windows 10?

[sayanarijit]

Hi there, unfortunately I don't have the resources to build and test xplr on windows natively,
However, as per this comment, xplr should work fine on Windows-Linux subsystem, i.e. you can use the Linux binary on WSL.

[mwaitzman]

ah okay thanks

[caviv]

Very nice. But are you familiar with Midnight Commander: https://midnight-commander.org/ ? which looks that have everything you have done and more.

[sayanarijit]

Hey, thanks. I have heard of mc many times but haven't used it. I have even listed it as an alternative. xplr is supposed to be an extension rather than competitor to the existing tools. For e.g. while exploring files using xplr, you can drop into nnn when you need more speed, mc when you need more control, broot when you need more visibility etc.

[lmburns]

Is there a way to specify a configuration file directly? Or is there a way to make sure that mine is actually being sourced. I've installed 2 versions, 0.13.6 and 0.13.7 on macOS and it doesn't seem to be sourcing the configuration file located at ~/.config/xplr/init.lua. I have used a very minimal config where I only modified one keybinding to using a more complex one that I found online, as well as adding executable permissions to the init.lua file. Either way it isn't changed within the TUI of xplr.

[lmburns]

Like no subfolder xplr? Cause I just tried putting it at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/init.lua and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xplr/init.lua and they both seem to not work.

Is it supposed tho be listed here anywhere?

 $ xplr | rg 'config'                                                           【 ~/test】─╯
config:
          config:
                config:
                config:
          config:
                config:
          config:
                config:
          config:
    config:
          config:
          config:
explorer_config:

[sayanarijit]

Ah right.. my bad.. inside xplr subfolder.

[lmburns]

I may have found the issue. I'll continue looking here after a little bit, but on macOS, the dirs::config_dir() points to $HOME/Library/Preferences and ignores the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. At least if this is what is used throughout. I don't know any rust so I may be wrong. But if this is the case, it would be nice to have an XPLR_CONFIG environment variable. I grepped through the project and didn't find an explicit reference to any XDG_ variable, so I think its the rust package that is setting that location.

[sayanarijit]

Very weird. Thanks for investigating. I'm not sure why my mac works. Will continue investigation later.

[sayanarijit]

Moving the thread here #230