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Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. It ships with "rifle", a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type.
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Pros
Pro Customizable keybindings
If you are not familiar with vim-like keybindings, you can use standard keys from other file managers like F5 (copy), F4 (edit), F8 (delete), arrows for moving between folders/files, etc.
If you don't like those either, you can customize bindings any way you like.
Pro Extensible, scriptable
Ranger allows the use of various scripts for calling on individual or multiple files, for file previews, or for other operations.
This allows for in-terminal full colour previews of images and videos.
You can even call external scripts or chain shell commands from the primary interface.
Cons
Con A great idea but not GUI friendly
May be difficult to get past the fact that it asked for commands dd and cc and the likes to cut and or paste. Arch-Linux normally prides itself on not over-complicating things. This is too bad. It is a great idea with the 3 Smart Columns, but why would anyone prefer to need to learn 30 commands in order to cut and paste or copy a file or folder, or to see/change permissions?
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Pro Can be used in terminal
Which makes for a good choice of file explorer for those that use machines without a GUI.