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submitted 9 months ago by ManyRoads@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

If you are seeking a really fast & simple TUI file manager....

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff#distros

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[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

ranger though 😍 ranger can load images to terminal, like sixel graphics

[-] freijon@feddit.ch 7 points 9 months ago

ranger is sooo slow though. I'm using yazi btw.

[-] 4vr@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

This looks to be more powerful and has more potential. Thanks for sharing.

[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] freijon@feddit.ch 4 points 9 months ago

a short click on that link will answer your questions better than I ever could

[-] squid_slime@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That actually looks pretty great, the images load much faster than what they do with my install of ranger! Although it might be due to the format in the preview vids conf

[-] vivi@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Try lf then. You can configure it to work just like ranger (see project wiki)

[-] 4vr@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

Seems to be an abandoned project? Last code change was three years back.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago

If it works, why update it?

[-] 4vr@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Then that must be one tool that’s stuck in past and willing to include more features.

And also a sign original developers have lost interest in project.

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

Now we need a comparison article about fff, ranger, and nnn. I chose ranger, but quite arbitrarily at the time. I tried nnn, but my fingers kept being used to ranger.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago

nnn has the worst learning curve, but at least the number of commands is brief and all fit on the one help page. I was wishy-washy on it until the selection improvements last year, but now I reach for it about half the time I do anything file/dir related - even the short things, and 100% for anything batch-related.

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you. What makes the learning curve bad in your opinion? I only tried it for a few minutes.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

It's just wierd. Sort of vim-ish, but mostly not. The bindings are really NIH - makes sense to the author, I guess, but it could have been so much easier if a few more of the key bindings were shared with... anything else. It's an entirely new modality I have to switch to whenever I use it.

I think the biggest stumbling block is that it's almost vim key bindings, and the muscle memory betrayed me in the cases where it isn't. I still have to bring up the help occasionally for the stuff I use less frequently, b/c I can't trust it'll be something sensibly from vim or readline.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

This looks like nnn.

[-] nooneshere@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 9 months ago
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