Make "Create Directory" and "New Doc" have more consistent naming

[benstigsen]

I just found out that a Create Directory command exists. I think this would be better as New Directory to keep consistency between new documents and directories.

[budRich]

This was discussed (among many other things) in #15 (Complex Projects). I think it's good you opened the issue Ben.

In the mentioned issue (#15), i suggested this:

Core: Add Directory   ->  Core: Add folder to project
Core: Change Project Folder  ->  Core: Change Project   OR  Core: Switch Project
Core: Open Project Folder  -> Core: Open Project In New Window

i think directory should not be used anywhere, since folder means the same thing, but is understood by windows users, And lite-xl being cross platform and so on.

I just wrote suggestions i could think of from the top of my head, there might be other things that could be renamed. And perhaps its a good idea to make one big overhaul on names, i personally find changes like these most of the time annoying, even if i agree with the new name, since I already gotten used to the old one. What I am trying to say, rename as much as possible in one release.

Many programs usually first depracte the old name for some time before removing them, which would mean for a transition time having both versions of the command available, but a warning being displayed when the deprecated is used. That would probably be clunky in this case, but worth mentioning and considering in some cases (commandline options).

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@franko have you changed the names already? Lets keep this issue open for discussion on naming and renaming of things in general.

[benstigsen]

I just realized that I referred to some things the wrong way in this issue. I'm talking about consistency between Create Directory and New Doc, consistency is needed between these two, so I propose something like New Directory instead. Personally I prefer the word "directory", but I'm fine with both "folder" and "directory".

[budRich]

I personally prefer directory as well, but it feels like a unnecessary fight to fight. Doc is also a bit awkward, feels a bit wordprocessory, but I don't think it should be renamed. But i guess you mean:

New Doc  && New Directory
Create Doc && Create Directory
Create New Doc && Create New Directory

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This is actually also discussed in #15 (Complex Projects). Where I would actually like to see them combined into: Open Doc , which would have different effects depending on what you enter:

path entered	action
existing file	open the file
non existing file	create the file (and necessary directories)
existing directory	add directory to project
non existing directory	well, that could just as well be a non-existing file, and would be treated like one

But I think all these actions should have stand alone commands, like open file, create file (which should prompt for path before it is created) and add directory to project . This is by the way maybe a discussion for it's own issue (how that Open Doc command could work), but i still think talking about names in this issue is good. I will soon make a summary of discussed names and add it to my topmost post in this issue.

[DriNeo]

This can be solved if "New Doc" can takes a path as argument and creates the necessary directories. "Create Directory" can be removed. An editor is about docs after all.

[franko]

This can be solved if "New Doc" can takes a path as argument and creates the necessary directories. "Create Directory" can be removed. An editor is about docs after all.

I agree with this. I was planning to modify the command open-file to accept a filename that doesn't exist. The file will be created on save together with the directories if needed. I think this was really the suggestion of @budRich.

[Timofffee]

Actually? If this is still relevant, then I will suggest simply using the spelling as in VS Code, since it looks as clear as possible. New Doc -> New File Create Directory -> New Folder

Of course, there may be some trick in this, but I don't quite understand the reasons for using doc and directory

[benstigsen]

Actually? If this is still relevant

This is critical. The future of the project depends on this.

[jgmdev]

That convention is already been used on the treeview context menu as seen:

https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/blob/master/data/plugins/treeview.lua#L551-L559

This should be easy change so PR welcome at least from my side.