If you are seeking a really fast & simple TUI file managerβ¦
This looks like nnn.
Ugly
Seems to be an abandoned project? Last code change was three years back.
Now we need a comparison article about fff, ranger, and nnn. I chose ranger, but quite arbitrarily at the time. I tried nnn, but my fingers kept being used to ranger.
nnn has the worst learning curve, but at least the number of commands is brief and all fit on the one help page. I was wishy-washy on it until the selection improvements last year, but now I reach for it about half the time I do anything file/dir related - even the short things, and 100% for anything batch-related.
Thank you. What makes the learning curve bad in your opinion? I only tried it for a few minutes.
Itβs just wierd. Sort of vim-ish, but mostly not. The bindings are really NIH - makes sense to the author, I guess, but it could have been so much easier if a few more of the key bindings were shared withβ¦ anything else. Itβs an entirely new modality I have to switch to whenever I use it.
I think the biggest stumbling block is that itβs almost vim key bindings, and the muscle memory betrayed me in the cases where it isnβt. I still have to bring up the help occasionally for the stuff I use less frequently, b/c I canβt trust itβll be something sensibly from vim or readline.
