File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by semantecture on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:26AM (#43099555)

Nice work, really snappy, love the "speed at the your fingertips" approach. I absolutly am willing to shell out some EUR for such life-altering tools.

I have been entrenched in the https://www.ghisler.com/ camp for 20+ years for three main reasons:

1. function keys for copy/move etc. like in mc, norton etc.

2. navigate (even larger) archive files in every format under the sun as if it were an extension of the file system. Blazingly fast and seamless.

3. the rich ecosystem of viewers , add-ons that has been added by the community at https://totalcmd.net/ over decades and is supported by the open source alternative implementation https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/

Any roadmap that has some of this on the list? [edited spelling]

Thanks for the cool work!

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by vjekoslav on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @05:52AM (#43100762)

Thanks for trying it out!

I was a long-time TC user too.

1) Those are not assigned by default, but all hotkeys in FP are reassignable, so you can create a setup very similar to TC.

2) This is a planned feature.

3) Not currently on the roadmap, but it's a possibility.

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by semantecture on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:36AM (#43113173)

Thank you for the reply.

Really looking forward to the archive file navigation, and will use your tool. I am already sensing that the snappiness is pretty addictive, and it will be hard to go back to anything slower...

Keeping my fingers crossed for your product!

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by qingcharles on Friday February 21, 2025 @09:15PM (#43135426)

This app is game-changing. It makes Windows vastly more useable as someone who needs a dozen tabs open all day in Explorer. As soon as I have spare cash next month I'm paying. The sheer hours saved from having to restart Explorer daily..!

Only one single feature request: can you allow thumbnails larger than Windows sizes? https://ritt.app does this well with a slider in settings.

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by vjekoslav on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:44AM (#43137581)

I'll check it out, thanks!

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by huhtenberg on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @07:10AM (#43101190)

Between all two-panel clones of the Norton Commander [1] FAR [2] is by far the best of the bunch /rimshot.

Very keyboard-oriented, extremely capable, super fast, open source with a vast plug-in library. A console app on top of that and it looks like the original. What's not to like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander

[2] https://www.farmanager.com/

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by basch on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:59AM (#43102790)

on windows I was partial to Saladin https://saladin.mimec.org/

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by justsid on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:08PM (#43106058)

This is eye opening to me. I have been swearing by Directory Opus for years, but I was also under the misguided impression that most Norton Commander clones were long gone. Love seeing so many alternatives, I’ll have to go check the, out.

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by throwaway_20357 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:31PM (#43106393)

Also still use Total Commander, a software now in development for > 30 years. Even paid way more for continuing my CrossOver subscription than in TC license fees over the years.

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