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> Probably good to disclose that you're the author of nnn?
Frankly speaking, in this thread I'm just another fan of nnn. When I started writing it I wouldn't have bet I'll (now we'll) achieve this. It let you dance around in the terminal without having to wait.
> and it FINALLY has hotkeys that aren't ridiculously bad.
I agree. The major issue is I never had any set of features in mind. Things got added as people requested or I needed them. And then finding/re-assigning keybinds became an issue. However, now that it's full-featured (with a very clear distinction of what the core FM would do and what plugins would do) from the past 2/3 releases we are stabilizing the keybinds. We have a open issue right now where you can suggest improving this area. We want to lock the keybinds in the next release.
> The fact that the earlier versions didn't have a "toggle selection" key (as mc does) was ridiculous.
Good algorithms take time. It was always there in my mind but I could never find the right way to place it without hacks. I was trying (e.g. commit 547d87bfc2caf276dd1bcb943677a0ca306c602d, which I could make faster with arch-specific code but has its caveats) different methods to weigh in the pros and cons. I don't think any other FM supports multi-dir selection today (and reasonably so because the single-dir is so simple!). The latest version is near perfect wrt. selection and the next one will close the few corner cases as well.
I didn't vote - none is perfect imo.
I would want a GTK or Qt fm, but the usual suspects never quite cut it.
I would have voted for spacefm, but development is sporadic and it has a few tics. At least it gives me full device mounting capabilities without gvfs!
> At least it gives me full device mounting capabilities without gvfs
@ondoho I can see you are looking for a GUI-based FM, but the nmount plugin of nnn may be a solution to your mount requirements. It's only dep is pmount(1), you can run it independently, is REPL and auto-toggles the mount status of a device. All you provide is the device name.
The longer I use Linux the more I use core tools.
ls cp rm mv df du rename file locate find eject -T nmap netcat ssh mount umount etc.
They work so well, fast, accurate, don't require any toolkits, man page is always right there, give you immediate feedback in the terminal, you can script them to do whatever you wish, when you update them it's a small update.
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