shortening long filenames

[bionicles]

I have some long filenames from synthetic data which put uuid in the filename (dumb but not my fault!)

ex Zula72_Ondricka197_907bd608-e768-4ce4-a5d8-4c7ba87bffa5.json

it takes up so much space it's hard to see the preview, is there a way to shorten the filenames in skim without renaming the files?

[lotabout]

@bionicles Skim knows nothing about the meaning of the content and there is no optimization for filename displays.

There are two possible solutions:

1. Skim provides ways to scroll left/right, bind to Alt-h, Alt-l by default. So you are not sticked to the default view.
2. With -d and --with-nth you could format what's shown on the screen. e.g.

   $ echo Zula72_Ondricka197_907bd608-e768-4ce4-a5d8-4c7ba87bffa5.json | sk -d '_' --with-nth ..-2
   > Zula72_Ondricka197_
   

   However this feature is designed to format structured texts(e.g. csv) and might not meet your need directly.