lf (file manager) Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

  > Also lf. https://github.com/gokcehan/lf You've been wanting this for years as well. Check out yazi, its the nicest TUI file manager I have used: https://yazi-rs.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Preview images, videos, fonts, PDFs ... in Vifm.

  As a Vim enthusiast, I always wanted to replicate my daily workflow based on keymappings and completely avoid using the mouse. I missed the functionality offered by tools like ranger or lf in Vifm, but I didn't want to learn a whole new set of keyboard shortcuts. I watched several YouTube videos trying to recreate this setup, but none quite hit the mark. The project that inspired this work didn't fully meet its... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Command Line Tools I Like (2022)

  Lf is similar (I switched a system Python version update broke ranger). https://github.com/gokcehan/lf I have it integrated into zsh so the current directory is whatever dir I was in when exiting lf. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Superfile – A fancy, petty terminal file manager

  This looks neat, but has a lot going on. I really like how minimalist lf [0] is and just use edir [1] to rename files in bulk - [0] https://github.com/gokcehan/lf. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

  A very good alternative to ranger is lf https://github.com/gokcehan/lf It's a lot faster in all aspects, has mostly the same features and is pretty much a standalone binary. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O

  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 / over 1 year ago

• What are the best open source tools to easily navigate directories from the command line?

  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: almost 2 years ago

• What is the process of requesting for a package to be added to the official repos?

  I recently discovered an amazing terminal file manager (lf). The package is available for most mainstream distros but not for openSUSE. Source: about 2 years ago

• What are your programs missing from the official Fedora repos?

  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 2 years ago

• What Useful Things Have you Learned from Bing?

  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 2 years ago

• The Command Line File Manager 1.11 (Cobb) is out!

  I highly recommend lf file manager if you haven't tried it. Source: about 2 years ago

• Kitty + Tmux + LF + Image preview!

  The clip above uses lf and the config is at https://github.com/jackielii/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/lf/lfrc Realistically, for each of these tools, you should be already using it. If you're starting from scratch, best place is the readme for each tool. Source: about 2 years ago

• ranger colorscheme keep getting reset back to default whenever I invoke shell for anything

  FYI, switched to https://github.com/gokcehan/lf . Less functionality, but works for me for the moment. Source: about 2 years ago

• diffrence of the "e" and "l" key in lf file manager?

  Assuming you mean this then quoting from the man page. Source: about 2 years ago

• Git Aliases - My way of learning Git

  Well let me introduce you to lf, a terminal file browser. I love it. Any application that I use a lot gets the royal treatment (a 1 letter zsh alias). Source: about 2 years ago

• Which is Best TUI file manager

  LF. Has vi keybindings like ranger but faster and with async image preview. You may also need this or ranger's rifle as file opener. Source: about 2 years ago

• Question about elisp to make simple dired shortcut

  Need to find a way to refactor it, I've got about 50 shortcuts like this in my terminal file manager (lf https://github.com/gokcehan/lf/). Source: over 2 years ago

• Name a program that doesn't get enough love!

  I've used ranger for years, but recently replaced it with https://github.com/gokcehan/lf Mostly because the configuration is far, far simpler. Source: over 2 years ago

• pros and cons of using plain shell vs. filemanager (no matter, remote or local full CLI)?

  I like terminal file managers like lf, you can do both graphical and shell commands easily. Source: over 2 years ago

• Set default video application for mp4 with lf file manager

  I want to set the default video application for mp4 files as mpv while using lf Link. Source: over 2 years ago

• Llama - Terminal File Manager

  Is it because it's hard to embed the shell prompt into a file manager properly, so people prefer to use single pane file managers/file browsers (like this one, or lf, or ranger, or nnn, ) as shell functions - open, select a file, put it into the prompt? Source: over 2 years ago