Hide the file extension?

[MarcCoquand]

Hiya!

I'm curious if there is some way within lf to hide the file extension (.md, .org e.t.c.)?

[joelim-work]

Such a feature doesn't exist. It shouldn't be too difficult to implement, something like below:

diff --git a/ui.go b/ui.go
index 60c77ff..66e7a1d 100644
--- a/ui.go
+++ b/ui.go
@@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ func (win *win) printDir(ui *ui, dir *dir, context *dirContext, dirStyle *dirSty
 		}
 
 		filename := []rune(f.Name())
+		if gOpts.hidefileext {
+			filename = []rune(strings.TrimSuffix(f.Name(), f.ext))
+		}
 		if runeSliceWidth(filename) > maxFilenameWidth {
 			truncatePos := (maxFilenameWidth - 1) * gOpts.truncatepct / 100
 			lastPart := runeSliceWidthLastRange(filename, maxFilenameWidth-truncatePos-1)

I'm just not really convinced that it's a feature worth adding. It might be useful for non-technical users that don't want/need to deal with file extensions, but then lf isn't designed for such users. Furthermore, hiding file extensions creates ambiguity - it's possible for multiple files to appear the same if they have different extensions (e.g. go.mod and go.sum in this repo), and also it's unclear if a file has an extension but is hidden, or just doesn't have a file extension at all.