Man, 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.
Far 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 :)
I appreciate the submission, but wish it had a lot more context given (e.g. in a blog post). For example, for someone who hasn't used find and replace in Sublime, how is it different than find and replace available in most text editors? How is this different than sed?
I can understand the example in the repo just from reading it. Without the context I would have had no idea what posted is search and replace. So it’s got that going for it.
The example in the repo is `far --find "Foo" --replace "Bar" --tartget "./src/*/*.rs"`. If the value here is to not know how to use a regex, that's not very compelling
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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.
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. ;)
I got it from nixpkgs, not sure if it's easy to install otherwise.
Less powerful but easier to use for simple cases?
https://github.com/ms-jpq/sadhttps://github.com/chmln/sd
that haven't been mentioned yet
[1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod