Vim file browser that runs in separate terminal
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Nowadays I spend a lot of time in Claude Code and reviewing diffs and code in Vim.I didn't want to learn Vim's window management, so I created a Vim file browser that can run in its own tmux pane.
HN · launched May 13, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: command line productivity tools · 82 launches, 0 in the last 7 days ▼ -100% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a small terminal utility or TUI script (likely written in Bash, Python, or Go) designed to navigate directories and send file paths to a running Vim session in another tmux pane.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 161 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #137 of 162 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
- tfm · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- jmux · hn · 2026-04-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Dwm.tmux · hn · 2026-01-24 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Deckard, Claude-first terminal manager · hn · 2026-04-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- flash.nvim, but for tmux…sort of · hn · 2026-01-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Ccmux · hn · 2026-03-02 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking · hn · 2026-03-17 · 311 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Cid to Claude · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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