broot VS nnn

Definitely a fair sentiment. I personally like having a static visualizer handy because sometimes I just want to do a quick assessment rather than boot up an entire interactive CLI, but if interactivity is what you want broot has you covered :]

You may be interested in broot

I think you’re conflating different projects.

There are projects that aim for a better user experience, with better command line interface, defaults, performance and UI. These are of course breaking changes and the programs can’t be used as drop in replacement. Some examples are

- ls => exa (https://github.com/ogham/exa)

- grep => ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)

- cat => bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat)

- tree => broot (https://github.com/Canop/broot)

The person you’re replying to was speaking of a different project - uutils (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils). These are drop in replacements with identical interfaces (modulo bugs).

Even better broot, previously adding view verb to config:

Broot: https://github.com/Canop/broot

- will navigate via broot if it is a directory or will view it on a pager --bind 'ctrl-/:execute( if [[ -d {} ]]; then broot {} > /dev/tty else bat --paging=always -pf -l=sh {} > /dev/tty fi)' // Also can add another condition to check file-mimetype if an image to preview it

Broot is a tree alternative with a better user experience, and you can use it to navigate a file structure. It's fast and respects .gitignore. You can cd into a directory from the tree view, open sub-directories in a panel, and even preview files. It has excellent keyboard navigation as well. It has many more features.

broot

It's not. It's a DIY thingie which mostly creates the sh scripts you see at the root of my rust repos (exemple: https://github.com/Canop/broot) as well as a wrapper script deploying the docs and binaries to my server. Nothing high tech. I'll probably do a cargo utility someday for that but I don't think it will be useful for other people.

nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn

nnn

nnnfile manager

Another option is to create a file in the command line, but quitting from the editor can be a bit of a hassle. So, what we can do is split the screen with tmux or zellij. Use a file manager if you prefer visual. Personally use nnn.

nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

I used your program for a little bit and it is a very nice effort. Although I would like to ask you, why not use nnn as a file manager which is insanely fast and has several functionalities as well. I am hoping you are aware of the project.

Same experience. For me Finder is simply unusable, not sure if I'm not used to it but the experience is terrible for me. So I prefer to do everything through the terminal or use some TUI like https://github.com/jarun/nnn

The only time that I have to interact with the UI is when I have to do something on System Settings, which is also dreadful.

I do this with "organize" plugin from nnn file manager, it's a simple shell script using "file" command to identify files. More plugins.

I use nnn[0] and it has a simple plugin[1] based on dragon. I can press `;d` and the dragon window pops up.

It is an OK workflow IMO. I'm not sure if I can directly drag and drop from the terminal list somehow. Or better yet, a full keyboard workflow.

0: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/

1: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/tree/master/plugins