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Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by 29athrowaway on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:05PM (#25127212)
I tried nnn after I was dissatisfied with ranger's startup time.

nnn is much faster, but I was already used to ranger's keystrokes and I did not want to learn a new set of keystrokes.

Then learned about lf, a ranger clone written in go, which is much faster. That is what I use now.

It is possible that nnn is the fastest file manager out there.

You may also want to try Midnight commander, a timeless classic.

Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by apjana on Thursday November 19, 2020 @12:43PM (#25152063)
> I did not want to learn a new set of keystrokes.

You don't really need to learn too many new keystrokes for the set of functionality you get in ranger. Many of them are same too.

Re:Show HN: Nnn – unorthodox terminal file manager by anonzzz on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:24PM (#25130061)
Thanks for the suggestion. That is my one gripe with Ranger. It can be sluggish at times...