lll

Simple terminal file manager

WIP, extremely rough. I would not recommend using this until it's 1.0.0.

Goals

Almost no features. Think more like noice than ranger.

• Current keybinds:

  • hjkl: navigation
  • q quit
  • G jump to bottom
  • g jump to top

• None of these are planned features:

  • Themes
  • Built-in shell execution
  • Config files
  • Multiple panes (use screen or tmux)
  • System information
  • Windows support

• But these are:

  • Handle files in their default apps (xdg-open)
  • Make scrolling work (currently doesn't re-draw when you go below or above the current screen)
  • Planned keybinds (mostly not implemented yet):
    • l should open a file, if not a directory (XDG_OPEN, spawn new terminal?)
    • d cut a file/directory
    • y yank (copy) a file/directory
    • p put
    • x delete
    • / search (smartcase) (should filter results, not navigate between matches)
    • . toggle hidden files visibility (true by default)
    • space select multiple items
    • s drop to a shell (on exit, should return to lll)

Other options

• ranger (Python) is the gold standard. It's got every feature under the sun, and is not always fast.
• hunter and joshuto are ranger clones in Rust. joshuto is pretty good! I haven't tried hunter because it requires more packages than I want to install.
• nnn, noice, and rover are relatively small and written in C. I like them! But I don't like C.
• fff is also fun, but it's written in Bash, and I wanted something both fast and maintainable.
• lf (Go) is very good. Like ranger minus a bunch of stuff I never use. I should really get better at Go.
• marcos (Rust) is rough, but I'm using some code from it (MIT, Hitesh Paul).

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