ranger VS mc

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.

[2] https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/bd9b37faee9748798f3970...

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

Came to post zoxide. Also if you use `ranger`[1] (vim inspired file manager) then you might like to add the `ranger-zoxide` plugin[2].

1. https://github.com/ranger/ranger

2. https://github.com/jchook/ranger-zoxide

This looks cool, though I already use https://github.com/ranger/ranger for this.

This feature is rarely seen in Linux file managers. I would recommend the CLI file manager ranger. If you need a GUI tool, you should have a look at pantheon files, the file manager of ElementaryOS.

Someone opened an issue about this. Might want to follow that.

Hi! I am using ranger file manager terminal as its best through all i had used, but i have a weird problem and i want to ask you maybe you know how to solve it because my knowledge have limits on this topic even though i researched a bit.

How about ranger

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

Depends on the archive type and how the vfs/extfs code was implemented for it¹. It also depends on how the archive is treated if it is compressed container, which can be seen by looking at how a .tar and .tar.xz are handled for example. The zip handler is probably the easiest to understand, as it doesn't need to contend with external compression wrappers and is a simple perl script.

Implementing your own extfs scripts to wrap a simple menu around some task can be really useful, far beyond basic archives. I wrote one so that I can shuffle my todo list priorities by moving fake "task files" in to different pseudo-directories.

¹ https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/tree/master/src/vfs/

I will consider a bug report, too bad you can't submit a ticket via github.

I really love how relative this feels, as for me "creator of mc¹" feels like the thing I owe him most thanks for. Every now and then I work on a project that is built on the foundations from mono, but all day I work in a way that uses mc.

¹ https://www.midnight-commander.org

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