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Rapid environment editor vs One Commander

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When comparing Rapid environment editor vs One Commander, the Slant community recommends Rapid environment editor for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for Windows?” Rapid environment editor is ranked 24th while One Commander is ranked 38th. The most important reason people chose Rapid environment editor is:

Displays wrong entries in red, e.g. paths that do no longer exist.

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OS Windows 10 version 17763.0 or higher

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Pros

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Warnings

Displays wrong entries in red, e.g. paths that do no longer exist.

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Easy

Editing of Windows environment variables is easy, splits long lines.

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Resolve variables values, make easy a refactoring of PATH by extracting different elements in their own new variable

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Convert variables between verbatim and expandable

Windows supports referencing variables within variables, but only if they're marked in the registry as expandable, and conversion between the two types is exposed in the context menu for each variable.

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Free

Free for non commercial use.

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Simple and fast

Fast search and filter.

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Miller columns

Like Finder from macOS.

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Multi tab support

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Themes

Light, dark and customizable themes/colours.

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Default file manager setup

Can make it the default file manager such that windows explorer stays out of the way for most of the work.

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File previews

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File / folder filters

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Folder views can be saved and applied

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Cons

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Simple

Some may not consider it a "power" user tool.

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Folders cannot be sorted by size

Con
Cannot access Android device connected by USB

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Cannot access Android device by FTP

And can never will as this is clarified by developer that this feature will never be added.

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It doesn't have UNDO function

Very important. When you work with valuable data files, this function can't be ommited.

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Navigating folders by Ctrl+Tab has considerable delay

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Browsing Recycle Bin is very slow

Navigating away from Recycle Bin tab and coming back to it reload the Recycle Bin which is very slow as mentioned. Program has an option to open recycle bin in Windows File Explorer, which suggests that developer is aware that opening Recycle Bin is problematic.