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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by vngzs on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:01PM (#25127132)
I like using terminal file managers for quickly traversing many nested directories, where I'm not sure where I want to go. I can use it to browse around and hjkl is familiar as a vim user.

With ranger[0], I can even use it as an alternative to cd, which is often the most convenient (I usually want a terminal in the last directory I browsed to, not the place where I opened the file manager[1]).

I hope to find a way to use nnn similarly, but it (like ranger) doesn't seem to support this out of the box.

[0]: https://github.com/ranger/ranger

[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/342064/ranger-cd-in...

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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by apjana on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:03PM (#25127160)
> With ranger, I can even use it as an alternative to cd

cd on quit works in nnn as well... and many other file managers.

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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by vngzs on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:06PM (#25127220)
Thanks for pointing this out - here's the link, for anyone interested:

https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Basic-use-cases#configure-...

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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by apjana on Sunday November 22, 2020 @08:18AM (#25177218)
> but it (like ranger) doesn't seem to support this out of the box

No utility can support cd-on-quit out of the box because a spawned process can't send the $PWD to the parent directly when it quits. It needs tweaks in your shell's rc file. nnn also needs the same instrumentation.

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