Files and documents
The session's folder, its files, and spreadsheets and Word documents shown as tables and text.
Files (Ctrl+Shift+E) opens the session’s folder beside the conversation: the tree on one side, open files as tabs.
The tree
Section titled “The tree”Folders come first. The tree follows .gitignore and hides .git. Nothing outside the session’s folder opens, links that lead out included.
Type in the filter to narrow the tree by name; start with ? to search inside the files (up to 200 results; files over 2 MiB are skipped).
With a row focused, the keys work as in a terminal file manager:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| ↑ ↓ ← → or k j h l | Move, close, open |
| a | New file or folder… |
| r | Rename… |
| y / x / p | Copy / cut / paste |
| d | Move to trash |
The same actions are in each row’s menu, with Copy relative path. Deleting moves to your desktop’s trash, where it can be put back. A copy never replaces a file: it becomes name copy, name copy 2.
Reading and editing
Section titled “Reading and editing”Text files open in Newen’s editor, with syntax colours by extension. Edit, then Save (Ctrl+S) or Cancel; closing a tab with edits asks Discard unsaved changes?. Ctrl+F finds in the file. The file’s menu has Reload file, Copy file contents and Copy path.
When the agent writes a file you have open, the tab follows it, unless you have unsaved edits of your own: yours win until you save or cancel.
Markdown opens rendered; View source and Preview switch.
Files over 2 MiB, files that are not UTF-8 text, and images, PDFs and videos say This file can’t be shown as text.
Spreadsheets and Word documents
Section titled “Spreadsheets and Word documents”Office files open as a rendered, read-only page:
| Kind | Extensions | Shown as |
|---|---|---|
| Spreadsheets | .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .xls, .ods |
One table per sheet, with formulas’ values |
| Word | .docx, .doc (Word 97–2003) |
Headings, lists, tables, headers and footers, images named by their alt text |
A large workbook shows its top: columns A to Z and as many rows as fit, sharing about 18,000 characters between its sheets (at least 1,500 each), with a note of what was left out. Files up to 64 MiB are read.
These files are shown converted and are never saved from Newen: This file is shown converted and can’t be saved. An old .doc shows its text, lists and tables but not its bold, italics, headers or footers.