nnn - best terminal file manager

nnn

nnn (n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It’s tiny, nearly 0-config and incredibly fast.

live-preview

I use kitty, so I will take kitty as an example.

1. enable kitty remote control: add two lines in ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

   allow_remote_control yes
   listen_on unix:/tmp/mykitty
   

2. Download the live preview plugin

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarun/nnn/master/plugins/preview-tui
   chmod +x preview-tui
   

3. move the file into nnn’s plugin directory：

mkdir -p ~/.config/nnn/plugins
mv preview-tui ~/.config/nnn/plugins/

1. config environments：add below lines into .bashrc or .zshrc：

export NNN_PLUG='p:preview-tui'
export NNN_FIFO=/tmp/nnn.fifo

1. use nnn with -a option to enable the plguin：

nnn -a

1. In nnn，press ;，and p to enable preview-tui plugin。

Enjoy it !!!

Reference

1. Claude
2. nnn live-preview wiki