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Turbo Vision
A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
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fm-nvim
🗂 Neovim plugin that lets you use your favorite terminal file managers (and fuzzy finders) from within Neovim.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better vifm alternative or higher similarity.
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Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
Some alternatives:
* `vifm` file manager, more powerful and performant than ranger, for those who lean towards vim keybindings: https://vifm.info/
* `btop` process monitor, for those who like eye candy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
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Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
vifm is the best of the lot, or at least I think so.
https://github.com/vifm/vifm
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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
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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vifm questions welcome here?
No, it's a standalone Vim-like file manager (site).
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The primary programming language of vifm is C.
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