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		zamalek on Jan 25, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor What I really want to see merged is the tokens in shell commands. dotnet is my day job, and the boilerplate (its luckily just namespace nowadays) gets repetitive and typo-prone. If I could just (approximately) `dotnet new class -o $cwd`... Instead we have something like 3 closed PRs for this.

archseer on Jan 25, 2025 | [–]

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/12527

desdenova on Jan 25, 2025 | [–]

Can't you just:

    <C-z>
    dotnet new class -o $PWD
    fg

zamalek on Jan 25, 2025 | [–]

PWD is does hot refer to the directory that file I am working on is in.

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