Sidebar Tools

Some useful tools to add to your sidebar context menu:

• Copy Filename
• Copy Relative Path
• Copy Absolute Path
• Duplicate
• Move
• Compare
• New file

All except Compare are also available via the command palette, in addition to:

• Reveal In Sidebar

To use the Compare command, configure a "difftool". For instance, Xcode comes with FileMerge that you can call via opendiff. The command will then become available when two files, or two folders are selected.

To open a file in its default application, consider installing the Open in Default Application package.

If you're looking for "Reveal in Finder/Explorer" for directories, Open in Default Application does that too.

This package offers fewer commands than e.g. SidebarEnhancements, striking a balance somewhere between the bare minimum and going overboard. This has benefits:

• The default context menu isn't replaced, this package just adds some useful new commands.
• It's tiny, light-weight and reliable.
• We won't track you. Ever.

Credits

We used SidebarEnhancements as a starting point, but completely re-implemented everything we wanted to keep. Now it comes in at just over 200 lines of super clean Python with zero legacy. Special thanks go out to @rwols and @mandx to make this happen.

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