nnn vs TUIFIManager

nnn is a terminal file manager designed to be small, fast and nearly zero-configuration. It handles copying, moving, deleting, archiving and linking selections, alongside batch renaming, disk-usage analysis, app launching and file picking. Navigation includes contexts, sessions, bookmarks and directory marks, while search options include instant filtering, fuzzy matching, regular expressions and string filters. It provides directory and text previews, and can create, list, extract and mount archives. Plugins can add functions such as live previews, disk mounting, file comparison and uploads. Remote mounts require optional sshfs or rclone dependencies. The project says nnn typically needs less than 3.5 MB of resident memory; it has no configuration file and uses defaults, with optional environment-variable settings. It is free and open source under the BSD-2-Clause license, and is listed for Android, Linux, macOS and Windows. The project offers packages and a statically linked binary, or users can compile it from source.

TUIFIManager is a free, GPL-3.0 terminal file manager oriented toward Termux users, and it can also be imported as a component in a Uni-Curses project. Its listed keybindings cover copying, cutting, pasting, deleting, and renaming, as well as creating files and folders and toggling hidden files. Vim mode supports normal and vim shortcuts; the README also lists common mouse events and X11 drag-and-drop from terminals. The project supports Termux and includes several Termux-only keybindings. Installation instructions use pip, followed by running `tuifi` in a terminal. The README documents environment variables for settings such as vim mode, editor, configuration path, hidden files, and filename display lines. The project says it uses about 35 MB of RAM and requires Python 3.8 or newer. Synthetic XDND is experimental and requires requests, pynput, PySide6, and python-xlib. The README labels its documentation a work in progress and says changing default keys besides commands is not currently possible through configuration.