If you are seeking a really fast & simple TUI file manager…

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff#distros

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ranger though 😍 ranger can load images to terminal, like sixel graphics

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ranger is sooo slow though. I’m using yazi btw.

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Can yazi display images?

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a short click on that link will answer your questions better than I ever could

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Try lf then. You can configure it to work just like ranger (see project wiki)

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This looks to be more powerful and has more potential. Thanks for sharing.

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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.

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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.

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Thank you. What makes the learning curve bad in your opinion? I only tried it for a few minutes.

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It’s 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 with… anything else. It’s an entirely new modality I have to switch to whenever I use it.

I think the biggest stumbling block is that it’s almost vim key bindings, and the muscle memory betrayed me in the cases where it isn’t. I still have to bring up the help occasionally for the stuff I use less frequently, b/c I can’t trust it’ll be something sensibly from vim or readline.

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Seems to be an abandoned project? Last code change was three years back.

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If it works, why update it?

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Then that must be one tool that’s stuck in past and willing to include more features.

And also a sign original developers have lost interest in project.

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Ugly

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This looks like nnn.

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