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Abstract: Marta is the greatest file manager for MacOS, by light years. Longer version: Before switching away from Windows, I was a long-time Far Manager [1]

Abstract: Marta is the greatest file manager for MacOS, by light years. Longer version: Before switching away from Windows, I was a long-time Far Manager [1] user. It is a great, great program far better than various graphical commanders. It had a set of killer features: 1. Quick directories, press ctrl-1 and you are there 2. No graphical cruft. All these tiny boxes and panels with buttons you see everywhere on the likes of Total commander, Double commander, etc, they are gone, none 3. It is text mode. Hard to spoil a properly done text mode with bad fonts, tiny fonts, etc - especially if you can set them up yourself 4. Folder operations. Open same folder in another panel, compare panels, selecting files, masks, regex, all done, all great 5. Great archive support. Open archive from folder, copy from archive, all done all great 6. Very, very capable build-in editor with code highlighting, and hex viewer/editor(!). I could edit savegames right from a file manager, imagine that?! I could go on, but nothing I have ever tried on GNU/Linux and MacOS came even close to it. I even tried to use ports of Far [2], but it is... well, far from smoothly supporting either platform. So I was really unhappy when using MacOS (there are few apps I hate as much as native Finder) until I've found Marta [3] recently. And Marta is truly great file manager for MacOS that even improves on Far in a lot of ways. Its author Yan Zhulanow is an extremely great developer who has put a lot of thought into the application, and it does everything that Far does (maybe sans a built-in editor), and it improves on it in many ways. Try it out. It is blazing fast, it is very well thought through from top to bottom, and it is probably one of the few perfect apps that leave you stunned after discovering it. It does have a relatively high learning curve to learn how to configure it and to learn all the hotkeys, but the result is very much worth it. [1]: https://www.farmanager.com/ https://www.farmanager.com/ [2]: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l https://github.com/elfmz/far2l [3]: https://marta.sh https://marta.sh

majkinetor 4y ago
You don't have to use GUI with both TC and DC. Its a matter of configuration. One important thing I do is set fuzzy filter on so that when I type in folder it selects file/folder I want quickly and ENTER will do the rest. Hotkeys are a thing too. I never use mouse with them.
meebee 4y ago
It does feel like a native Mac app and is quick and responsive. Is there a way to modify the key hotkeys to be like Total Commander? At this point I don't want to have to learn another set of keystrokes. I briefly looked at it and hit space to select a few files, and it opened them, and then I hit Cmd+D to get a quick directory and instead duplicated the file. So it seems that a key mapping from us old commander users must have been done by someone.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  I think you can, it has a pretty powerful configuration editor. I wasn't specifically looking in TC-like config, because Far hotkeys are hard-wired in my brain and I felt that they are mostly the same in Marta.

majkinetor 4y ago

You don't have to use GUI with both TC and DC. Its a matter of configuration. One important thing I do is set fuzzy filter on so that when I type in folder it selects file/folder I want quickly and ENTER will do the rest. Hotkeys are a thing too. I never use mouse with them.

meebee 4y ago

It does feel like a native Mac app and is quick and responsive. Is there a way to modify the key hotkeys to be like Total Commander? At this point I don't want to have to learn another set of keystrokes. I briefly looked at it and hit space to select a few files, and it opened them, and then I hit Cmd+D to get a quick directory and instead duplicated the file. So it seems that a key mapping from us old commander users must have been done by someone.

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
I think you can, it has a pretty powerful configuration editor. I wasn't specifically looking in TC-like config, because Far hotkeys are hard-wired in my brain and I felt that they are mostly the same in Marta.