Which terminal file manager do you use?

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  • xplr

    A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

  • xplr

  • nvim-tree.lua

    A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua

  • nvim + nvim-tree

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  • 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.

  • vifm

  • lf

    Terminal file manager

  • after using ranger for a quite a while i've switched to lf and couldn't be happier! i'm still a beginner to this whole terminal thing, but i find bash scripting to be pretty comprehensible. so getting lf to behave the way i want it to and extending its functionality are pretty easy.

  • tere

    Terminal file explorer

  • if you just need to navigate, tere is great because it has type to nav.

  • clifm

    The shell-like, command line terminal file manager: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.

  • clifm is also worth mentioning because it gets the basics very right. just hitting numbers to navigate is really cool. i personally couldn't extend it very much though.

  • zsh-autosuggestions

    Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

  • Manual (Git Clone) Clone this repository somewhere on your machine. This guide will assume ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions. git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions Add the following to your .zshrc: source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh Start a new terminal session.

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