lf
Terminal file manager (by gokcehan)
fm-nvim
š Neovim plugin that lets you use your favorite terminal file managers (and fuzzy finders) from within Neovim. (by is0n)
| lf | fm-nvim | |
|---|---|---|
| 113 | 7 | |
| 8,040 | 275 | |
| 1.4% | 0.7% | |
| 8.7 | 0.0 | |
| 8 days ago | 7 months ago | |
| Go | Lua | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
lf
Posts with mentions or reviews of lf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-19.
- fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
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Preview images, videos, fonts, PDFs ... in Vifm.
As a Vim enthusiast, I always wanted to replicate my daily workflow based on keymappings and completely avoid using the mouse. I missed the functionality offered by tools like ranger or lf in Vifm, but I didn't want to learn a whole new set of keyboard shortcuts. I watched several YouTube videos trying to recreate this setup, but none quite hit the mark. The project that inspired this work didn't fully meet its intended functionality.
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Command Line Tools I Like (2022)
lf is similar (I switched a system Python version update broke ranger). https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
I have it integrated into zsh so the current directory is whatever dir I was in when exiting lf.
- Superfile ā A fancy, petty terminal file manager
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Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
A very good alternative to ranger is lf https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
It's a lot faster in all aspects, has mostly the same features and is pretty much a standalone binary.
- Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
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Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O
I've tried using LF in the past, but it didn't stick. Will definitely give this a go, as I'm trying to move to an pure terminal workflow as closely as possible.
https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
- Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
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What are the best open source tools to easily navigate directories from the command line?
Hi. fff, lf, clifm Won't say they're best or not, rather interesting and maybe worth looking at. Looked up for the z in termux's repos and it's called "zoxide" there.
- Switching from unix - Is there a plugin or something similar to Ranger or NNN?
fm-nvim
Posts with mentions or reviews of fm-nvim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.
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What are some plugins that you can't live without?
fm-nvim
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Managing your files. How do you do it?
I'm already using vifm as my main-file-manager so I'm using `fm-nvim with a custom vifm-open-function to open up vifm in nvim.
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Using neovim without a file tree plugin
For "neighbour" files of the current buffer I normally use :NeoTreeReveal if the file is in the main repo. (the current pwd). If not I'll use fm-nvim with ranger. I can use the Ranger %:p:h command to open the folder of the current folder in ranger without changing the pwd in vim.
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Overview of popular nvim plugins?
I'm using vifm as my file manager which is pretty awesome in combination with (n)vim which is easy possible thanks to fm-nvim.
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FAVOURITE PLUGINS
- https://github.com/is0n/fm-nvim
- Vifm in a floating window
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fm-nvim: Neovim plugin that lets you use your favorite terminal file managers from within Neovim
I've recently released a Neovim plugin that opens a floating window with 1/5 terminal file managers called fm-nvim. It's quite small and fast as the entire plugin is written in less than 100 lines of Lua.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lf and fm-nvim you can also consider the following projects:
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
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.
nnn - nĀ³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
rnvimr - Make Ranger running in a floating window to communicate with Neovim via RPC
yazi - š„ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
lf - Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store