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Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers

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Resurfaced independently across 4 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
11
submitters
7
observed span
2017–2022
peak thread · 193 comments
298 pts
latest 20+ return · 2020-11-17
123 pts

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2007–2026

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dang·298-point thread·

@apjana since I have you here. (Feel free to gracefully decline to answer any of the following.) May I ask why are you not trying to leverage the assortment of useful tools you wrote with sizeable following to be some kind of side income? I didn't miss the paypal link on every repo, but I don't think that would make much without being a recurring payment and a little bit of blog posting. This was partly inspired by the 'to…

O_H_E·123-point thread·

# Features - Modes - basic, detail, disk usage analyzer (du) - Navigation - Familiar, easy shortcuts (arrows, `~`, `-`, `&`) - *Navigate-as-you-type* mode with dir auto-select for the maverick - Handy bookmarks, start at bookmark, pin and visit directory - chdir prompt with tab completion (interprets cd ..... too!) - Roll-over at edges, page through entries - Show directories in custom color (default: enabled in blue) - Sorting - Directories always listed on top - Sort by file name…

apjana·2-point thread·

### nnn features #### Behaviour and navigation - Detail view (default: disabled) with: - file type (directory, regular, symlink etc.) - modification time - human-readable file size - current item in reverse video - number of items in current directory - full name of currently selected file in 'bar' - Show details of the currently selected file (stat, file) - Disk usage analyzer mode (within the same fs, doesn't follow symlinks) - Directories first (even with sorting) - Sort numeric…

apjana·2-point thread·

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2

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Total points
444

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Total comments
299

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