smenu
smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use. (by p-gen)
nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager (by jarun)
smenu | nnn | |
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37 | 200 | |
2,335 | 18,244 | |
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8.1 | 8.1 | |
about 1 month ago | 1 day ago | |
C | C | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
smenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of smenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-04.
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Lineselect 0.1.6
You can also use smenu (https://github.com/p-gen/smenu) to make these and many other selections.
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smenu clean window effect
Here are the relevant bits of the source (in [smenu.c](https://github.com/p-gen/smenu/blob/master/smenu.c):
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So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
Here are the bindings for smenu-history, I found somewhere at the site:
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I created a full POSIX sh menu.
I suggest a name change, so your smenu, isn't confused with this smenu, which is a totally different entity, can present the menus in columns, lines and tabular fashion, has hotkey support, and so much more, I don't know if it is POSIX compliant, but it can also be used with sh, and just not bash.
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Recommendations for CLI / terminal utilities for dialog or confirmation prompts?
smenu for menu and dialogs
- smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool/filter for interactive or scripting use.
- smenu v1.2.0 is released.
- smenu v1.2.0 is available with improvements in the multiple selections feature.
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.
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Help compiling a package with a compiler flag from an official Debian source
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?
- Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
- Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
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How do I change default image and video interpreter program through environment variables for nnn file manager ? (Asking herre bc r/linuxquestions doesnt allow posts)
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.
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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
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
- [Command Line] Quel gestionnaire de fichiers préférez-vous dans la CLI?
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nnn file manager with icons
git clone https://github.com/jarun/nnn cd nnn make O_NERD=1
What are some alternatives?
When comparing smenu and nnn you can also consider the following projects:
RAGENativeUI
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
kks - Handy Kakoune companion.
lf - Terminal file manager
notes - notes on the tools in my Unix/Linux toolbox, dotfiles, etc
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.
cleanit - Cleanit cleanup your ~/Downloads and ~/.Trash directory, and set the cleanup schedule on your MacOS.
fff - 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.
hx - Hex editor for the terminal using plain C99 + POSIX libs.
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
sn - Simple Notes using fzf
mc - Midnight Commander's repository