Norton Commander and all of its clones and successors (Midnight Commander, Total Commander, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander#Norton_Commande

Norton Commander and all of its clones and successors (Midnight Commander, Total Commander, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander#Norton_Commander-inspired_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander#Norton_Comman...) are the closest that I am aware of. A similar line of shell-like TUIs would be X-Tree Gold (http://vtda.org/docs/computing/XTree/XTreeGold20UsersGuide.pdf http://vtda.org/docs/computing/XTree/XTreeGold20UsersGuide.p...) and any of its clones. Vim has Netrw: https://vonheikemen.github.io/devlog/tools/using-netrw-vim-builtin-file-explorer/ https://vonheikemen.github.io/devlog/tools/using-netrw-vim-b... Emacs has Dired mode: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredMode https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredMode