Long time nnn user right now. But interested in hearing some other people suggestions in case I missed something more interesting.

    • Bady
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      11 year ago

      I use ranger with zoxide plugin, very handy. I even use it inside neovim as well, using rnvimr plugin.

    • @theodoreOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I keep hearing good things about ranger. Might give this a try soon

    • @theodoreOP
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      21 year ago

      Any spesific reason on choosing it?

    • ChojinDSL
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      21 year ago

      Yep, midnight commander is hands down the best file manager I’ve ever used.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        With great respect, and speaking as someone who has used both very extensively, I would argue Total Commander (on Windows) has got the upper hand of all those traditional NC clones.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I generally I only do simple operations on the command line. A few cp, mv, ls… If I am doing much more than that I open a GUI manager.

    • oo1
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      11 year ago

      same.
      back on dos i used xtreegold for everything.
      but since moving to linux, it’s never occurred to me to use one.

      this thread has got me wondering but not sure i can see the need.

      tab completion also makes handling directory structure easy enough.

  • @JubilantJaguar
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    ranger and I have nothing but praise for it. That’s as a Linux user of 15 years, formerly a bit of a skeptic about the use of such a tool. I use it not just as a file manager but as a platform for launching scripts and GUI programs via key bindings. I’ve pretty much turned it into a TUI desktop environment at this point. Because, yes, it is possible to do computing more efficiently than with a CLI alone, whatever the purists may say. For me, TUI tools are the sweet spot: less keystrokes, less memorizing, but also extremely hackable given that there’s no GUI to deal with.

    Addendum: and fzf in the scripts! Like someone else said, this simple little tool makes so much possible.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    I consider ranger and fzf life changing, especially being able to get the full path of any file at my command prompt at a moment’s notice. It’s now as though navigating directories were gauche.

  • @lhx
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    51 year ago

    If you like vim keybindings check out ranger. It’s nice.

  • Daeraxa
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    51 year ago

    I used to use nnn but I’ve recently fallen in love with xplr but honestly about 90% of the time I just use ls, cp and mv (although I sometimes also use broot as well).

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I use broot all the time and appreciate that xplr is more plugin oriented or flexible is some ways, but don’t really feel I need more than broot so haven’t given xplr a proper try.

      As you use both, would you say there’s a particular feature or task that has you reaching for xplr over broot?

      • Daeraxa
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        11 year ago

        xplr I probably use more (like nnn) for the tasks I would normally reach for a GUI file manager where broot I use (probably under-use) it as a fancy tree and ls - i.e. still using standard terminal commands to actually do stuff vs just moving things around

  • I eat words
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    41 year ago

    midnight commander, especially if i need to delete files/dirs with ‘-’ and non-ascii characters. i do it without thinking.

  • sophs
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    41 year ago

    Never been a fan of terminal file managers, I just use exa and cd. Also z for directory jumping.

  • sotolf
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    31 year ago

    Most of the time I just use the commandline stuff (cd ls mv rm etc.) but I have vifm installed if I really want one

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      Same. I’ve set up and used ranger, nnn, even clifm, but after doodling around for a few minutes, I forget about them and just go back to basic builtins.

      • sotolf
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, they are just comfortable to work with, and no fuzz, and most of the time I don’t really need to do something complex.

      • sotolf
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, they are just comfortable to work with, and no fuzz, and most of the time I don’t really need to do something complex.