I used ranger for a while, until I realized that using a competent shell app (e.g. zsh) was much faster for navigating around and manipulating files. That said, ranger was a good stepping stone for me to going full-cmdline!
You might want to give lf a shot…it’s heavily inspired by Ranger, but written in Go. It’s what I’ve settled on for file navigation within my text editor of choice.
Doesnt work on Enter-PSSession on Windows tho…. Test it with etsn localhost; lf and you will get a black window. But stuff rarely do for some reason. Even less makes a problem.
strongly suggest giving it a try. the 3-pane layout and directional navigation clicked in my head so instantly and efficiently that I was blown away when I discovered it.
even better is using ranger from within vim for file navigation. it has almost become second nature over buffer explorer unless a project has a particularly ugly directory layout.
I use ranger. I really like it for sorting through media. Quickest way for me to find+open videos w/ mpv. It has in terminal image previews, ascii or full colour.
I used ranger for a while, until I realized that using a competent shell app (e.g. zsh) was much faster for navigating around and manipulating files. That said, ranger was a good stepping stone for me to going full-cmdline!
Ranger is simply awesome. It could be faster tho but amazing anyway.
You might want to give
lfa shot…it’s heavily inspired by Ranger, but written in Go. It’s what I’ve settled on for file navigation within my text editor of choice.I am so happy now.
Doesnt work on
Enter-PSSessionon Windows tho…. Test it withetsn localhost; lfand you will get a black window. But stuff rarely do for some reason. Evenlessmakes a problem.strongly suggest giving it a try. the 3-pane layout and directional navigation clicked in my head so instantly and efficiently that I was blown away when I discovered it.
even better is using ranger from within vim for file navigation. it has almost become second nature over buffer explorer unless a project has a particularly ugly directory layout.
Any relation to https://vifm.info/ ?
Another useful, but somewhat different project is broot, which is more based off of fuzzy search than zippers of file trees.
I’ve been using ranger almost daily for a few months, and really like how it complements a regular GUI file manager. It’s definitely worth trying!
I use ranger. I really like it for sorting through media. Quickest way for me to find+open videos w/ mpv. It has in terminal image previews, ascii or full colour.
Similar file managers: nnn, lf.