lf VS nnn

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I use https://github.com/jarun/nnn/ with `cd` on quit if I need to scan around manually. Otherwise, zoxide.

Would a commander type TUI work for you?

https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc

https://github.com/ranger/ranger

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

There's also superfile and broot, but personally I feel like they try to do a little too much, might work for you though:

https://github.com/yorukot/superfile

https://github.com/Canop/broot

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.

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?

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.

I like nnn ( n3 ).

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.

nnn