Re:Ask HN: best file manager for OS X?
by ovi256 on Saturday April 18, 2009 @08:16AM
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bash/zsh, whatever shell you want. Just forget the "Proper collapsible/expandable tree view" - why are you limiting yourself to GUI file managers ? Get on the new old thing - command lines.
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Because dragging and dropping is faster than typing scp, a folder, a hostname, and a colon.
Yeah, I came to OSX from Linux and I only use Finder maybe 30% of the time, and often I cd to a directory and just use 'open .' from the Terminal anyway.
Have you tried Quicksilver? It's a much more efficient way to open folders then using term + open.
I think you misunderstand me. I use the terminal constantly anyway, so when I do want to view a directory in the Finder (which is relatively uncommon), I just use 'open' to do it.
Granted, I'm not much of a Quicksilver pro, I mostly just use it to launch apps, but I have my doubts that I'll ever use it for opening folders unless it's one of the few commonly named home folders (Downloads, Documents, Sites, etc).
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Though if you know some special tips or tricks to open folders with QS with tab-complete to get the right path and all that, I wouldn't mind knowing about them.