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There is another Far, with a bit more history behind it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Manager
by abcd_f 1y ago
There is another Far, with a bit more history behind it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Manager
- eddythompson80 1y agoMan, I remember the first time I came across Far Manager. It was through ConEmu in 2010. I was pretty confused with Far tbh. Couldn’t really figure out who or why you would use it. Then I saw someone actually using it at work. The Wiki doesn’t go much into the demographic for such file manager. It does say they predate GUI file managers, which is fair I guess, but I always thought you lived by cd/ls/find/cat/etc then. I still do for the most part.
- abcd_f 1y agoFar is a Norton Commander clone, and the NC was ubiquitous in pre-Windows era. It felt like it was on every single machine that ran DOS. Its dual-panel design is really quite ingenious as it speeds up the majority of routine file operations, especially when working with ad-hoc file sets. Just need to learn the keyboard shortcuts :)
- thesz 1y agoFar is for Windows, where "find" and "cat" are problematic, to say the very least. In that area, Far is game-changing. And even today I use Midnight Commander in Linux because I used to Norton/Volkov Commander and then Far. ;)
- ilyagr 1y agoFar manager now exists on Linux and Mac: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l https://github.com/elfmz/far2l I got it from nixpkgs, not sure if it's easy to install otherwise.