Is there a plan to add support for windows ?

[edwinjhlee]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We are developing x-cmd, we would like to collect the portable cross-platform command tools.
Take broot for example: https://x-cmd.com/pkg/broot

Describe the solution you'd like

Add support to windows

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

Thank you.

[yorukot]

charmbracelet/lipgloss#30
So the reason why I said it is not supported before is because it will cause layout problems when I test it on pwsh in Windows (other file operations etc... do not have big problems)

I just found this and it seems to solve this problem. I will test the function in the next few weeks to see if there are any problems and let you know!

[yorukot]

Update for install on windows #130

[edwinjhlee]

Very quick ... 👍

Once you decide it is mature, and provide release with cross platform build.
Send me a notice in this issue, we will package your build into our package system.

BTW, we x-cmd release 0.3.6 with some AI/LLM demo, you might probably have interests.
https://x-cmd.com

[lazysegtree]

@yorukot At this point it is pretty stable in windows too. At least I am using it on powershell, and not seeing layout problems. Although I see that are many open issues that are specific to windows.

#332
#380
#383
#437
#514
#544

What do you think should be the criteria for considering it ready for windows ?

[yorukot]

Currently I'm actually not sure if it's stable on Windows (I don't use Windows) so I'm not sure of the current status, but as you said it seems to be usable at the moment. I will close this issue first.

[lazysegtree]

I would suggest lets wait for a few critical windows related issues to be fixed. I did use it in windows, it works fine, though file operations are mostly broken.

Ctrl D not working

#380

'e' or 'E' does not works.

#437

Paste not working

#514
#552

I have a windows VM in MacOS that I use for testing. I would try to perform some more testing after these issues are fixed. And then we can consider it ready for windows.

Reopening it for now.

[lazysegtree]

@edwinjhlee @yorukot
I have created this milestone for tracking stable windows support. https://github.com/yorukot/superfile/milestone/1

Once this is completed and we perform release of a newer version super file, I think we can mark this as completed.