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You can set glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) as the markdown previewer in nnn if you use a customer opener.

Also check if your terminal supports Shift-PgUp/PgDn to scroll up/down a page.

Works in gnome terminal: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/stable/adv-keybo...

Yes, nnn is completely navigation oriented with an extra focus on speed and remaining lightweight. The plugin autojump supports jump/autojump/zoxide.

> 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.

Yes, as a user I feel nnn was extremely disruptive as a FM. As the author I see at least 7 to 8 FMs drawing inspiration from it, which is a very positive testimony.

Got it! Thanks for clarifying.

Can you please elaborate what you mean by "half baked"? nnn has macOS users and I believe the number is picking up given we are getting more bug reports from macOS users recently. Knowing macOS users, we can consider polishing some crude corners if the problem statement seems reasonable.

> 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.

nnn supports all of them BTW - find, grep, fd, ripgrep...

tig is awesome!

> lots of extra features

https://github.com/jarun/nnn#features

Yes, that's a good file manager too! Especially for people familiar with vim.

Thanks for sharing!

I get the sarcasm but probably a lot of that would depend on the calculation involved.

I think that workflow is available in almost any terminal file manager now.

Completely agree.

Yes, where there is a will, there is a way! :)

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

Yes, that's what I intended to convey.

Please head here: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Performance

> Sometimes a GUI is faster for me, especially when I'm not 100% sure where things are or there are many files to select.

nnn takes care of these already. I don't think you would see a difference once you get used to.

Not until I posted my hard work in one of these public forums for people to use and benefit.

You are welcome!

There can be other frequented examples, say, ~/Pictures.

Yes, it's very useful for people like me who live on bookmarks.

Thank you!

My response was from from emacs perspective. Here's a memory usage comparison: https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...

Looks like emacs uses at least double the memory.

> May I ask why are you not trying to leverage the assortment of useful tools you wrote with sizeable following to be some kind of side income?

I started contributing to open source because I learn a lot from it since my graduation days. I think of it as a payback to the community. Having said that - I do appreciate users donating now and then. :)

> This was partly inspired by the 'to spend more time with his kid than at a computer' quote.

My regular job is a demanding one. So I have to work smart to save time for my kid and family. Some of the utilities were written to help with that.

> Do you have a rough idea about the number of actual users, other than github stars?

Not really. But I know for sure even some orgs use some of my utilities.

Can't counter that given I've last used emacs years back.

Exactly!

That'll print the list of files even in a populated directory like /usr/bin and leave me at the prompt with the last few files listed above. As soon as you want the list of files not to go away so you can control/manage/examine them, you are talking of a file manager.