lf (file manager) Reviews and details

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• 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 / 8 months 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: 10 months 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

  Assuming you mean this then quoting from the man page. Source: about 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

• What is the folder that is in front of the prompt?

  I was working as usual and after executing a normal command (Opening https://github.com/gokcehan/lf) this little folder icon appeared next to my prompt, what is it? Source: over 1 year ago

• how the fuck does this make any sense?

  Use gow, and WindTerm; and if you want an even better experience install lsd, fd, and lf all of which are downloadable via Chocolatey, the Windows package manager. Source: over 1 year ago

• Good tree-view file explorer to use with helix?

  I myself like to use https://github.com/gokcehan/lf for file navigation and then have configured helix as the default editor lf's config. It works quite well. Source: over 1 year ago

• What's the software you couldn't live without?

  You might want to have a look at LF: ( It's super fast ) Https://github.com/gokcehan/lf. Source: over 1 year ago

• Which file browser do you use ?

  Yeah, that is unfortunately my experience too. There are ranger-like alternatives Hunter and lf. I have tried to switch a couple of times but my config for ranger is pretty heavily customised and I keep going back to it. I just mash ctrl-c if the previewer locks up the UI and it unlocks it. Source: over 1 year ago