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

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

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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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