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> "Tere" means "hello" in Estonian. It also feels nice to type.

I really thought it was initially a typo on "tree" (the tool's purpose is to navigate the folder tree) that the author decided to keep.



I think the origin might be ”[ter]minal file [e]xplorer”, though the author might correct me here.

”Tere” is also, perhaps unsurprisingly, used in Finnish.


I would say that terminal explorer is what I had in mind initially (and incidentally, I also speak Finnish, heh). But a misspelling of tree is certainly a valid interpretation as well :)


"there" would also be a nice alternative explanation




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