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Written by Antonio Frecentese on 2025-01-19 at 20:36

Tried #lf as file manager. No, I prefer #nnn and #vifm. The former more than the latter, probably. I’ll give #vifm another shot, but…

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Written by Antonio Frecentese on 2025-01-19 at 21:07

The main points about #vifm were (for me, of course) one/two panels (like #mc), the possibility to have a preview, some shortcuts which resemble #vi. The main points for #lf were the preview and having 3 columns showing also the previous directory. But in both cases the preview slows down the operations (and as it’s done for all the files/dirs, it may slow down quite a lot) and I don’t need it so often. Actually only one panel is enough, most of the times. #nnn still permits quite easily to ->

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Written by Antonio Frecentese on 2025-01-19 at 21:07

-> go to the destination address when copying files (and that’s the only reason to have two panels visible at the same time), it doesn’t have previews and it’s fast. Ok, #vifm can have one single panel too, but… Generally speaking, nnn is probably faster and more usable for me. I like also the fact that going further than the end of the file list you go again at the beginning, instead of stopping. So probably I’ll keep nnn at the end. Let’s see.

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