When comparing Far Manager vs File Manager Pro, the Slant community recommends File Manager Pro for most people. In the question“What are the best Mac file managers?” File Manager Pro is ranked 7th while Far Manager is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose File Manager Pro is:
It is kind of annoying to have tons of movies on the NAS, but having recognizable icons for the movies in a file manager can really help.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Keyboard-oriented
Far Manager's interface encourages keyboard operation - all actions are easily accessible with keyboard shortcuts, you can quickly record macros for any repeatable action, there are no screen redraws if it is not necessary and that makes everything faster.
Pro Open source
Released under BSD license.
Pro Two-panel interface
Pro Many plugins
There are may of them, and you can write them in any languages, including Python.
Pro Editor with syntax highlighting
Every Far feature is also true for its editor. You can setup an external editor if you like, but the included editor works really well and features syntax highlighting.
Pro Easily recorded macros
Hit "Ctrl-." and start recording your boring sequence. Hit "Ctrl-." again to assign it a key. You can use Lua if you need more advanced macros.
Pro Numeric sorting option
E.g. readme-9.txt before readme-10.txt
Pro Extremely fast
Pro Offline context help
Just press F1 when you need it. No internet connection or browser is required.
Pro Themeable
Fully themeable, allowing you to change the colors of every part of the interface.
Pro Scrippting support via LUA
Pro Movie poster as file icons
It is kind of annoying to have tons of movies on the NAS, but having recognizable icons for the movies in a file manager can really help.
Pro Disk overview on click
You can know what's happening on your drive by clicking on a particular segment.
Pro Built in text editor
Sometimes a simple text file is just enough, being to open a text editor therefore can come in very handy. Be it to view, edit or generate a text file.
Cons
Con Blocking operations
Operations such as copy, move, delete, etc are blocking, and you have to wait for them to complete before you can continue.
Though you can cancel the operation with the escape key.
Con Only for Windows
Con Always uses monospace font
Which makes long file names look extremely wide
Con Does not support scrolling with mouse
With plugin
Con Text-based interface
Far Manager does not use a GUI like most windows applications nowadays. This may prove difficult to use for people who are not familiar with text-based user interfaces.