The lf File Manager is Ranger But Better

[@re1konn]

thanks youtube. I just finished setting up my ranger and you recommend me this. Bravo 👏

[@bioemilianosky]

same lmao

[@yash1152]

4:12 "terminal as a background process" woww, niiice tip. i wanted to learn to be able to do that as well. got it now (:

[@mitch8346]

Well done. I recently switched from ranger to lf. Another lf advantage is it works on Windows too. I would never choose Windows but that's what I'm stuck with at work. PS: Void Linux has a lf package, which includes a man page. I imagine other distros do too.

[@BrodieRobertson]

The Windows point slipped my mind since I rarely use Windows myself. I don't seem to have a man entry on my system, but if it's available on Void that's a little odd.

[@mitch8346]

I believe the man page I have in Void is a nice touch provided by Void's lf package maintainer. The content is essentially identical to lf -doc, with nice formatting.

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@mitch8346 oh that makes sense, I guess I could do the same thing if it really bothered me

[@kevinl.9657]

8:18 Using the go get command, you won't have to compile it yourself. It will be compiled already. Though you will have to install go first, if not yet installed in your system, and setup $GOPATH or just use the default.

[@nitsi9333]

U should have screenkeys on especially for such a video where you keep pressing keyboard shortcuts

[@BrodieRobertson]

I usually remember to turn it on now

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Brodie. This just came into my recommendations.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Why is this video getting into people's recommendations

[@metastag]

@@BrodieRobertson the youtube algorithm works in mysterious ways

[@mangelozzi]

Why would you ever wish to open a file in Visual Studio Code when you have Neovim?

[@ernstmayer3868]

Nice video! But how to run the mappings in lf? As per documentation 'gh' should be a default mapping for 'go home'. Am I supposed to write :gh oder !gh or gh? None of it works. Any suggestions?

[@BrodieRobertson]

You just have to press gh, there's no extra keys that you have to press. If the key is bound properly then when you press g it will show a menu at the bottom of lf showing you the next keys that you can press to do an action.

[@ernstmayer3868]

@@BrodieRobertson Thanks a lot! I totally missed the suggestions. lol :) Great!

[@mateusgomes1086]

Can't you preview images with sxiv by modifying the lfrc file?

[@wojteksowinski248]

You can open images in sxiv but you’d have to open a separate window. When Brodie said “preview” he meant viewing the file in the file manager without opening it. To do that, you have to integrate a terminal image viewer such as Ueberzug

[@davoudarsalani1888]

It took me a long time to have ranger configured as it is now and I'm so comfortable with it. But ls seems to be much lighter and faster. Worth a shot. Will be using your lfrc at first.

[@bhavinmoriya9216]

Hi Brodie! Is it possible to find files and at the same time list files with its size in human readable format?

[@BennoKushnir]

Have you found a replacement for the "bulkrename" function from "ranger"?

[@BrodieRobertson]

There are a few bulk rename utilities that could be integrated

[@kodesafi]

Awesome video ! Thanks. I've swithed to lf and am loving it. Could previews work with Ueberzug ???

[@BrodieRobertson]

I think that there are some people currently working on the integration

[@codebitcookie8053]

@@BrodieRobertsonHow about now?

[@MamRadVlaky]

it's been so many years now... does it support images now?:D

[@piotrtalarczyk8987]

👍

[@IuliusPsicofactum]

Great! Now I have to spend a weekend configuring this thing until I am happy. And of course I won't be able to help myself for trying to get the most suitable configuration for my particular specific taste. Oh god, why did I chose linux, whyyyyyy. I would be configuring lf now if I didn't have other things to do :P I am actually trying lf because I need something to use with keybindings as I installed qutebrowser and now using a file manager like nautilus feels obsolete. Who needs a mouse anyways?

[@yash1152]

0:53 wow, so old video of yours. but honestly, i am liking the audio and voice here better. feels more natrual, more pleasant. i dont know, the audio in your recent videos feels toooooo sharp and also feels like you are forcefully trying to emphasise or accent words certain way. the difference is probably not much, but its impact on the experience is definitely much much noticeable

[@maxarendorff6521]

lf seems great in theory but it doesn't support tabs and other functionality that I'm used to in Ranger. It requires you to learn and customize other tools to be able to have that functionality, and I'm not going to learn tmux just to have tabs in my file manager.

[@BrodieRobertson]

I have literally never felt any desire to have tabs in my file manager. I'm a fan of having a very stripped down file manager, I'm not going to even touch most of the Ranger features.

[@maxarendorff6521]

@@BrodieRobertson Interesting. How do you copy stuff then? Do you open two instances of lf or do you just go back and forth manually between different folders? If you like minimal file managers you should probably also check out "nnn" and "fff" if you haven't already.

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@maxarendorff6521 I'll usually copy and then jump to the place I want to paste in. I've got basically all of file system that I access semi frequently aliased to use key binding so it's no slower than just having multiple tabs. I've heard of nnn and fff but I just haven't checked them out

[@med5032]

@@maxarendorff6521 make use of markers. you can do '' (two single quotes), to go back where you were. and you also can just have two terminals if you're using a tiling window manager.

[@maxarendorff6521]

@@med5032 Markers are an alternative and yes I do use BSPWM but I'd still prefer having tabs as having to have two windows open for a file manager is a waste of space, particularly on a small screen.

[@neonblood4658]

Does lf have a "bulkrename" feature like ranger does?

[@BrodieRobertson]

Not by default but it should be pretty easy to implement yourself, lf is fairly stripped down compared to Ranger.

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@nirgunawish it's harder in the fact that you have to implement most of the functions yourself but you can add as many or as little as you want.

[@jemag]

You should try vifm, I personally prefer it over these other 2

[@BrodieRobertson]

I'm not a fan of it, I've got a video I want to make about it.

[@xllvr]

@@BrodieRobertson Looking forward to that video. I really prefer vifm over ranger because I can't quite wrap my head around ranger enough to want to use it. I haven't tried lf yet, but I might give it a shot

[@smccrode]

Brodie Robertson I want this video. I went from ranger to vifm.

[@sharperguy]

I can't decide whether I like gaps or not. In theory it's a huge waste of space but it also looks cool.

[@BrodieRobertson]

At least with the wallpapers I've tried gaps doesn't look too great on my system plus I do appreciate the extra space

[@jaychotaliya962]

I'm really new to Linux call me a noob but I want to learn this video is really amazing but I did not understand how do you set the custom key mapping but then I saw the other video of yours where you show the lfrc but I''m not able to use the lfrc I don't know how to set the path for it. It would be of great help if you make a video on how to setup various paths and where did you set up the path for lfrc also I'm on Ubuntu so how deferentially do I have to set

[@yash1152]

0:16 2:58 which wallpaper 😍 ???

[@fuseteam]

wait so ranger is written in python and python in go.......now we just need one in c

[@al-du6lb]

It does have a man page now.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Yeah it got fixed not long after I made this video.

[@MoreChannelNoise]

Good video, I subscribed. I am currently using lf. I can't turn off previews for some reason, I tried set preview false in my config but it's not working.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Thanks, I managed to turn them off once before but it doesn't work anymore on my system either so it seems to a bug.

[@MoreChannelNoise]

@@BrodieRobertson Thanks for trying though, it means I am not being an idiot, so that's good to know! I have filed an issue on the github page, So I hope I am not missing something obvious, lol

[@MoreChannelNoise]

@@BrodieRobertson Found out the online docs were wrong you need to use set nopreview

[@petewest3122]

lf has a manpage. You have to copy the lf.1 file over to: /usr/share/man/man1/lf.1

[@BrodieRobertson]

The AUR package at this time didn't include it but was fixed

[@Maik.iptoux]

Why not just using mc?

[@mangelozzi]

python for config is way easier to understand and especially maintain than bash :'''(

[@sorathpanzer]

Lf file manager as now w3m previewer, would be nice a new video about it: github.com/gokcehan/lf/wiki/Previews

[@BrodieRobertson]

Will do, that's awesome to see

[@folguefolgue6177]

"shell script, that we all love", shell scripting, in batch, bash, powershell, any shell scripting language you can imagine its pure garbage

[@fuseteam]

y should be for copying and p for pasting 😏

[@aneeshprasobhan]

are you Luke Smiths child ?

[@Flackon]

Lol, who would want to script in shellscript when python is a possibility?

[@BrodieRobertson]

You're free to script in whatever language you choose but for a lot of situations it'll be quicker to just do it in shell script.

[@andreiandreichuk4814]

Could yo please share you lfrc?

[@BrodieRobertson]

It's always available on my github

[@MarkoL-z7o]

next

[@1toneboy]

mate, you said 'zee' instead of 'zed', WTF....

[@BrodieRobertson]

I don't see the problem here

[@nitsi9333]

@@BrodieRobertson I guess 1toneboy is british

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@nitsi9333 I've had people call me on it in Australia, nobody can agree on the correct pronunciation

[@1toneboy]

Oh, I didn't realise you lived in America. My bad.

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@1toneboy No I'm definitely in Australia

[@rochr4]

ok, I kinda like You, you take function before looks, no homo (obligatory) what is what, linux here is performance, I understans and cheers You, guys that promote tiling, very nice, I dear You U. prove that tiling is the way, I tile in tmux, which is great and logic, tiling terminals is is perfect, pls show Us why tiling is better then stacking (wm world VS DE world) WHY THE FUCK id tiling workflow better ..(Me XFCE, like xfce rock shit stable monolith performance, I use desktop apps, gimp, browse web, pls do such video, how the duck tiling makes any sesne for someone that use GUI apps and put out a work, performs better in tiling WM then in focking KDE... can You do it ? pls. beg You! :)

[@LucyPero]

i use a TWM and i admit that tiling is useless except in some edge cases

[@yasmimrodrigues5437]

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