dotter
A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀 (by SuperCuber)
nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager (by jarun)
| dotter | nnn | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 200 | |
| 769 | 18,203 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.7 | 8.1 | |
| 22 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Rust | C | |
| The Unlicense | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dotter
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.
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What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?
dotter-rs -- config manager with templates
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Dotfiles Management
I was unhappy with existing solutions, especially I wanted the ability to handle differences between machines. So I built my own! You're welcome to see if you like it :)
https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter
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Managing your Dotfiles with Dotter (Tutorial)
I'm glad you asked! There are plenty of dotfiles managers out there, like chezmoi, Dotbot, or yadm (you can see a list here and a comparison table (from chezmoi, thus biased) here. But for this tutorial (and my dotfiles), I chose dotter.
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Is it possible to have per-device .add spellcheck files, or some other, non git conflicting solution?
Or you could use the greatest bestest dotfile manager ever invented by yours truly - Dotter! It is designed to allow for per-machine configuration exactly like this :)
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Any Plugin manager that will still manage to update plugins when the plugin doesn't contain the .git folder?
Shameless plug time! Check out my project Dotter :D
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A great dotfile manager written in Rust
Apparently I get that a lot :P
- Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
nnn
Posts with mentions or reviews of nnn.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Directory navigation on Helix
If you want a file full browser experience choose nnn: https://github.com/jarun/nnn . If you have a desktop file for Helix you can use the Gnome Files program to make all your programming language files open in Helix.
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Help compiling a package with a compiler flag from an official Debian source
The other option is to just download the static version https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/download/v4.9/nnn-nerd-static-4.9.x86_64.tar.gz and overwrite the Debian executable at /usr/bin/nnn, but this seems a bit hacky, agreed?
- Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
- Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
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How do I change default image and video interpreter program through environment variables for nnn file manager ? (Asking herre bc r/linuxquestions doesnt allow posts)
You can get the 'default' nuke plugin script from https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/plugins/nuke and customize it if you need to. You define files by extension or mime type and set default and fallback apps to be opened with.
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What are the best open source tools to easily navigate directories from the command line?
I like nnn ( n3 ).
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Can't figure out how to change icon theme in nnn
The icon-theme seems to be driven by your terminal font as detailed in `src/icons-in-terminal.h & icons.h, and the choice of "terminal-icon vs nerd-fonts vs emoji" appear to be hard-wired at compile-time rather than at run-time.
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What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
nnn
- [Command Line] Quel gestionnaire de fichiers préférez-vous dans la CLI?
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nnn file manager with icons
git clone https://github.com/jarun/nnn cd nnn make O_NERD=1
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotter and nnn you can also consider the following projects:
rua - Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
dotfiles
lf - Terminal file manager
toml-bombadil - A dotfile manager with templating
vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
fff - 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.
streamlit - Streamlit — A faster way to build and share data apps.
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
punktf - ⚡ A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager
mc - Midnight Commander's repository