Another nnn fan here, great tool!

Been meaning to try out xplr[1] which I came across the other day.

1 https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr

How does nnn compare to ranger https://github.com/ranger/ranger ?

Related to ranger, nowadays I use lf[0], which is a clone of ranger written in Go. There's also pistol[1] which is a replacement for ranger's rifle file viewer

[0] https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

[1] https://github.com/doronbehar/pistol

ranger is fancier (both visually and in terms of configurability), but nnn is significantly faster in my experience. I kept putting off looking into ranger's rifle capabilities and Python scripting, but after having it crash on me a couple times - in a directory with many hundreds of files, to be fair - I tried nnn. The speed and simplicity made me switch over entirely, because it has just the right amount of features that I wanted from ranger. (Well, the one thing I kinda miss is the inline Markdown preview in ranger - shortcut `i` - but it's a minor convenience at best.)

You can set glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) as the markdown previewer in nnn if you use a customer opener.

Midnight commander

MC only here too. On Amiga Directory Opus (DOpus) was amazing. Their windows port came late and isn't so essential, though I can't imagine how people have the patience to do any file management with awful normal explorer. Luckily not a worry of mine, I live in the nix/nux terminals.