nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager (by jarun)
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. (by vifm)
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nnn | vifm | |
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200 | 35 | |
18,043 | 2,616 | |
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8.1 | 9.5 | |
8 days ago | 17 days ago | |
C | C | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" 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.
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.
- Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
- Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
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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
I am building nnn from source, and I used these instructions from the docs to set the theme (doesn't seem to apply to the icons however).
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
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nnn file manager with icons
git clone https://github.com/jarun/nnn cd nnn make O_NERD=1
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Terminal file manager nnn v4.8 released
In case you haven't come across nnn earlier, it is a tiny full-featured terminal file manager written for performance and productivity - https://github.com/jarun/nnn
vifm
Posts with mentions or reviews of vifm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-24.
- Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
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Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
vifm is the best of the lot, or at least I think so.
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Which file explorer do you use?
I'm using vifm as my file manager and also as the file manager in neovim.
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Which is Best TUI file manager
vifm ist very handy to use and pretty extensible
you could try vifm: https://github.com/vifm/vifm
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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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Very new to Vim. Having trouble with running programs
You might want “vifm” instead, it’s a vim inspired file manager for the CLI that will let you see files and open them … https://github.com/vifm/vifm
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Using neovim without a file tree plugin
I'm using vifm as my daily file manager, so I added it to neovim and I'm very happy with it! :)
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With great power comes great responsibility...
Hey it's already done. Vifm or nnn; take your pick. I prefer nnn since it's faster.
- Vifm: A Vim-like file manager
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nnn and vifm you can also consider the following projects:
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
lf - Terminal file manager
fff - 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
mc - Midnight Commander's repository
broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot
zsh-z - Jump quickly to directories that you have visited "frecently." A native Zsh port of z.sh with added features.
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
lf - Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store
chadtree - File manager for Neovim. Better than NERDTree.
sigma-file-manager - "Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app for Windows and Linux.