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n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

107 mentions on Hacker News by 41 people: 39 stories, 68 comments · first 2017-04-13 · latest 2026-08-20

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  1. …– it was very slow), and if preview was added as an option I would seriously reconsider. [1]: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/nnn-design-considerations
    comment by atmoz · 2018-11-24 · in Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers
  2. …a meaningful/unbiased feature comparison. However, you can find the list of features in `nnn` here: https://github.com/jarun/nnn#features In addition, last night I added a vim plugin to use `nnn` as a file picker within vim.
    comment by apjana · 2018-11-24 · in Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers
  3. …wenderen is indicating that the question you raise is addressed on the nnn Github page itself: https://github.com/jarun/nnn#performance
    comment by dghf · 2018-11-24 · in Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers
  4. CLI utilities from jarun for daily use: File manager: https://github.com/jarun/nnn Google search: https://github.com/jarun/googler DuckDuckGo search: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr Bookmark manager: https://github.com/jarun/Buku Multicore…
    comment by apjana · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  5. …I recently switched from ranger to nnn and have been really happy. It's tiny and extremely fast: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
    comment by lunchables · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  6. Looks similar to nnn ( https://github.com/jarun/nnn ), which is written in C with many more features.
    comment by apjana · 2018-10-26 · in A terminal file manager written in bash
  7. …atool) - Optionally open text files in EDITOR (fallback vi) - Customizable bash script [nlay](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/all-about-nlay) to handle actions - Information - Detailed stat-like file information - Media information…
    comment by apjana · 2018-08-10 · in Show HN: nnn – the missing terminal file manager for X
  8. Features - https://github.com/jarun/nnn#features
    comment by apjana · 2018-02-28 · in Nnn file browser v1.7 released
  9. Also https://github.com/jarun/nnn and http://duc.zevv.nl/
    comment by BobBagwill · 2018-01-20 · in QDirStat – Treemap Visualization of Directory Statistics
  10. https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/nlay # bash 4.0 way to switch to lowercase ext="${ext,,}"
    comment by alvil · 2017-12-25 · in Fast nnn file browser v1.6 released
  11. In continuation of my earlier comment, nnn has a copy file path to clipboard action ( https://github.com/jarun/nnn#file-copy-move-delete ). I believe we can extend it to append multiple filenames which can then be deleted from the spawned…
    comment by apjana · 2017-12-25 · in Fast nnn file browser v1.6 released
  12. You might just have missed this - https://github.com/jarun/nnn#nnn
    comment by apjana · 2017-12-25 · in Fast nnn file browser v1.6 released
  13. I can't be very specific without citing examples. The following APIs may explain what I mean: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/nnn.c#L358 https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/nnn.c#L1267 https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/…
    comment by apjana · 2017-12-25 · in Fast nnn file browser v1.6 released
  14. …It has a section on shell completion for different shells so I don't think that is the intention, https://github.com/jarun/nnn#shell-completion
    comment by jdowner · 2017-12-25 · in Fast nnn file browser v1.6 released
  15. Performance to begin with: https://github.com/jarun/nnn#performance You also have other goodies like a quick disk usage analyzer mode, navigate-as-you-type , superfast search-as-you-type filtering... extremely handy navigation shortcuts…
    comment by apjana · 2017-09-04 · in Show HN: nnn – The missing terminal file browser for X
  16. …- Fixed #34: nftw(3) broken with too many open descriptors - More concise help screen Homepage: https://github.com/jarun/nnn Features: https://github.com/jarun/nnn#features
    comment by apjana · 2017-07-26 · in nnn v1.3 – The missing terminal file browser for X
  17. …level - Linux only: use vlock as the locker on timeout (set using `NNN_IDLE_TIMEOUT`) Homepage: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
    comment by apjana · 2017-06-29 · in nnn v1.2 – The missing terminal file browser for X
  18. ## News - Introducing nlay ( https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/all-about-nlay ) - a highly customizable bash script to handle media type - nnn is on Homebrew ( http://braumeister.org/formula/nnn ) now - RPM packages for CentOS 7 and Fedora…
    comment by apjana · 2017-05-12 · in nnn v1.1 – The missing terminal file browser for X