Tracking issues of Remote file management

[Xuanwo]

This issue is used to track progress of yazi's remote file management.

Discuss at discord: https://discord.com/channels/1136203602898194542/1187669236672368681

Goal

Make yazi a super terminal file manager that can manage remote files.

First of all, users can define new shemas in config:

[schemas]
rules = [
  { name = "backup", type = "s3", bucket = "my-backup-bucket", ... },
  { name = "google", type = "gdrive", referesh_token = "my-token", ... },
  { name = "nextcloud", type = "webdav", endpoint = "http://my-nextcloud-server", ... }
]

Then, users can use yazi to manage them like local files:

# manage remote s3 bucket!
yazi backup://path/to/dir

# manage my gdrive
yazi google://root

# manage my nextcloud
yazi nextcloud://path/to/my/notes

Tasks

• Add shemas in config
• Add remote url scheme in URL
• Build opendal operator and handling io operations

[dyxushuai]

Amazing idea, really like it.

[dyxushuai]

I want to claim this.

[og900aero]

It would be nice if they were also available on the go, so these "drives" could also be called up with a keyboard shortcuts.

[dyxushuai]

It would be nice if they were also available on the go, so these "drives" could also be called up with a keyboard shortcuts.

Opendal already supports Go binding https://github.com/apache/opendal/tree/main/bindings/go

[sxyazi]

Can we implement it using the Go binding?

[Xuanwo]

What's the relation between keyboard shortcuts and go? I would rather directly integrate yazi with rust because the go binding is still in its early stages and it requires CGO and the c binding, which could complicate our cross-platform support efforts.

[danilevy1212]

Would SSH / SFTP / SCP be within scope of this feature? Currently, I use Dired (from emacs) for most of my file editing because of it's remote file management capabilities, through Tramp. If yazi supported this, I would totally switch over, since tramp can be quite slow, but I do have a whole lot of SSH hosts where I routinely do file operations on, so it's just too convenient to leave behind at the moment.

[Xuanwo]

Would SSH / SFTP / SCP be within scope of this feature?

SFTP, Yes.

Other protocols are considered as obsolete that not supported in opendal. See apache/opendal#2643

[danilevy1212]

Thank you! very much looking forward to this.

[Xuanwo]

Hello everyone, I have started my work at #1152.

Current progress: opendal has been integrated into yazi. I'm working out the layout of yazi to make it works correctly.

[uxfion]

Is it better to integrate through the plugin rclone? because rclone is mature and stable enough to avoid reinventing the wheel

[choovick]

Another user that was brought up on Norton Commander then Total Commander then Midnight Commander. Shell link is a must for me as well, with this feature MC and be uninstalled. MC URI schema sh://user@host_or_ip[:port]/path

[kkumlien]

Can't even start using Yazi without fully integrated, remote file management MC-style (or similar). Keep up the good work!

[planetrobbie]

Same this is a pretty useful feature that I use everyday with MC.