Feature Request: add metadata in displaying files & directories (plugin system)

[hacker-DOM]

Hi @community

Thaanks for the cool tool (I saw it a few days ago on Reddit and downloaded it now). I have been using ranger until now with two columns, but I would switch on a heartbeat (ranger freezes 20% of the time I use it). I have not been using Nnnn because it only supports one column, so I'm glad Yazi supports multiple out of the box

I am under the impression that there isn't a plugin system yet. I just wanted to voice a feature request that would be necessary and sufficient for me to move Ranger → Yazi.

I am a security auditor and I read a lot of code that I'm unfamiliar with. For that purpose, I created https://github.com/hacker-DOM/zsh-sccd, which counts lines of code in every directory and creates a tiny .metadata.json in every folder. I then display the line counts in my file managers, eg Neotree and Ranger.

I would switch to Yazi if I could create a plugin that would display these line numbers

Ideas: the plugin system could be in Lua or be stdin/stoud based like pandoc.

Neotree:

Ranger:

[sxyazi]

Actually, I think the current theme system already supports it. It allows for most of the UI to be rewritten using Lua.

You can read .metadata.json during the initial UI rendering and store it in a variable. Then, on subsequent renderings, if the variable is not empty, you can use it directly without any IO operations. Since .metadata.json is tiny, this should be fast.

The later plugin system will extract this IO operation into a separate asynchronous pre-caching runtime, ensuring there is no UI blocking.