File managers

• Awesome TUIs: file-managers

Nautilus

Install:

sudo pacman -R nautilus gvfs-smb

yazi

• Website
• GitHub
• 23k stars, 127 contributors
• Rust, fast !
• Docs
  • configuration
  • Resources
    • Previewers, Plugins, Integrations, etc.
• Neovim plugin: yazi.nvim
• Tracking issues of Remote file management
  • PR: Introduce remote scheme
  • Closed Integrate to OpenDAL to allow manage files on s3/azblob/gcs/oss/dopbox/gdrive

Usage

Key bindings

• Key bindings
  • F1 or ~ to open the help menu
  • q to quit
• Configuration: keymap.toml
• Default keymap.toml

Plugins

• Docs: Plugins
• GitHub: yazi-rs/plugins
• Functional plugins
  • List of existing plugins
• Feature requests
  • View Recent files Closed as not planned

List installed plugins:

ya pack -l

office.yazi

• GitHub Office documents previewer plugin for Yazi, using libreoffice

Install:

ya pack -a macydnah/office

ranger

• GitHub
• 16k stars, 212 contributors
• Python
• Neovim plugin

broot

• Website
• 11k stars, 93 contributors
• Rust
• Recent release

lf

• GitHub
• 8k stars, 104 contributors
• Arch package: lf

superfile

• GitHub
• 13k stars, 64 contributors
• Go
• Recent release

nnn

• GitHub
• Wiki: configuration
• C
• Cons:
  • In order to uses file icons, nnn needs to get compiled with a special build flag.
  • Only one contributor (=maintainer)

Install:

cd ~/projects/file-managers/nnn
gup
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libncursesw5-dev libreadline-dev
make O_NERD=1
sudo make strip install

nnn plugins

• nnn plugins

Plugins are at ~/.config/nnn/plugins

preview-tui

• preview-tui

has native kitty support (in contrast to preview-tabbed)

• Sometimes lines are not correctly wrapped
• No video preview

Install helpers:

sudo apt install imagemagick bat ffmpegthumbnailer libmagic-dev
env GO111MODULE=on go get -u github.com/doronbehar/pistol/cmd/pistol

Stale / outdated

• goful
  • Last commit 2021
• sfm
  • Last release 2021