far2l VS hunt-and-peck

FAR Manager 2

I still use Total Commander on my Android phones/tablets.

For MacOS, the closest ones are:

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/commander-one-file-manager/id1...

- https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

Do you need to self compile? The Linux port (https://github.com/elfmz/far2l) ironically only provides macOS releases... Thank you!

I would then mention far2l project that aims to bring Far Manager to -nix systems: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l. It is cross-platform and does have a great built-in editor and viewer

Oh, I didn't check recently - could you share the link about political beliefs. From what I know there are quite many developers right know and it worked flawlessly at least on openSUSE Tumbleweed https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

Abstract:

Marta is the greatest file manager for MacOS, by light years.

Longer version:

Before switching away from Windows, I was a long-time Far Manager [1] user. It is a great, great program far better than various graphical commanders. It had a set of killer features:

1. Quick directories, press ctrl-1 and you are there

2. No graphical cruft. All these tiny boxes and panels with buttons you see everywhere on the likes of Total commander, Double commander, etc, they are gone, none

3. It is text mode. Hard to spoil a properly done text mode with bad fonts, tiny fonts, etc - especially if you can set them up yourself

4. Folder operations. Open same folder in another panel, compare panels, selecting files, masks, regex, all done, all great

5. Great archive support. Open archive from folder, copy from archive, all done all great

6. Very, very capable build-in editor with code highlighting, and hex viewer/editor(!). I could edit savegames right from a file manager, imagine that?!

I could go on, but nothing I have ever tried on GNU/Linux and MacOS came even close to it. I even tried to use ports of Far [2], but it is... well, far from smoothly supporting either platform.

So I was really unhappy when using MacOS (there are few apps I hate as much as native Finder) until I've found Marta [3] recently. And Marta is truly great file manager for MacOS that even improves on Far in a lot of ways. Its author Yan Zhulanow is an extremely great developer who has put a lot of thought into the application, and it does everything that Far does (maybe sans a built-in editor), and it improves on it in many ways. Try it out.

It is blazing fast, it is very well thought through from top to bottom, and it is probably one of the few perfect apps that leave you stunned after discovering it. It does have a relatively high learning curve to learn how to configure it and to learn all the hotkeys, but the result is very much worth it.

[1]: https://www.farmanager.com/

[2]: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

[3]: https://marta.sh

Not quite. It's still in beta though

A source-available alternative for Windows: https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck

For Windows, there is Fluent Search and hunt-n-peck.

2. Hunt and Peck: https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck has been my favorite, a simple version of shortcat for windows. But, it's not maintained and not as slick as some of these newer tools.

I use https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck which enables Vimium/EasyMotion style mousejumping. Windows only.

I want to emphasize the other comment:

> The other thing that's absolutely essential for using these larger format monitors is window management software and in general a more keyboard/macros focused workflow.

My 4k 39" screen really, really drove me to use keyboard shortcuts. By default on Windows, hitting Windows+Number will take you to the 1st/2nd/3rd/etc program in your taskbar. I use AutoHotKey to take this further, CapsLock+Number and CapsLock+F1-F12 also take me to predetermined programs. I install websites as Chrome apps (chrome://apps/) in order to make going to Gmail/Calendar/Github faster. I also use this script: https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/79338-simple-window-p... which makes window management (resizing, centering, moving, etc) much easier. I also use Vimium and this program https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck - now my hands almost never leave the keyboard.

I encourage you to spend some time optimizing your setup. It really, really pays off.

Grab yourself some hunt & peck: https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck

I guess it's similar to https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck/issues which I use now, did you know about it? differences etc?

I would mention Total commander and Quick Access Popup as two well known ones, but two gems that I see are undiscovered are:

- TouchCursor https://martin-stone.github.io/touchcursor/ the only one I found that allows you to use Space as modifier key, and works flawlesly (with other ahk scripts handling hotkeys running simultaneously). Praying it does not stop working with some Win10 update, as it is not being worked one, it seems

- https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck for more mouse free operation of any program.