Vim file browser that runs in separate terminal
Details
- External ID
- 48122078
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Vim file browser that runs in separate terminal
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3053311793214863
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and music production tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- vim file browser in separate terminal
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 96 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #77 of 97 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
- jmux · hn · 2026-04-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Deckard, Claude-first terminal manager · hn · 2026-04-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Dwm.tmux · hn · 2026-01-24 · 101 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
- 1VM · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes · hn · 2026-01-09 · 126 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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