Midnight Commander VS lf (file manager)

Was there something before https://midnight-commander.org/ or was that the OG? - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Just use mc (midnight commander) it not only is a terminal based file manager but it will give you the command lines used to do so GNU MIDNIGHT COMMANDER. Source: 11 months ago

Given that you can run shells in Emacs since those are text too, Emacs ends up becoming almost like a Lisp-powered tmux or mc. Source: almost 1 year ago

Several ways copy over files, depending on your technical capability and requirements. Some prefer to drag & drop or copy file by file between shares, slower but works best when reorganizing folders. Windows for bulk copy between shares use Robocopy via command line or free file copy utility like FreeFileSync, Midnight Commander or Total Commander. Of course, for the more advanced admin, it's also possible to... Source: about 1 year ago

You can also try Midnight Commander : https://midnight-commander.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

I've tried using LF in the past, but it didn't stick. Will definitely give this a go, as I'm trying to move to an pure terminal workflow as closely as possible. https://github.com/gokcehan/lf. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Hi. Fff, lf, clifm Won't say they're best or not, rather interesting and maybe worth looking at. Looked up for the z in termux's repos and it's called "zoxide" there. Source: 10 months ago

I recently discovered an amazing terminal file manager (lf). The package is available for most mainstream distros but not for openSUSE. Source: about 1 year ago

For me, the main program missing is "lf" the ranger inspired terminal file manager. 5000 stars on Github, packaged in the official repos for basically anything under the sun except Fedora and a key part in my day-to-day workflow. https://github.com/gokcehan/lf. Source: about 1 year ago

It also taught me how to unmap a non user defined key in LF (lfrc). -The trick was to map it to nothing before mapping it to a two digit sequence mapping I wanted. Source: about 1 year ago