file manager with certain capabilities

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Boruch,

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:44:49 -0400
Boruch Baum <boruch_baum at gmx.com> wrote:

> Try 'ranger': http://ranger.nongnu.org/
> in conjunction with trash-cli: https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
> Both are pre-packaged in Debian.
> 
> Ranger is a curses-based file manager with THREE vertical panes. As a
> default, ranger 'auto-previews' all files in it's rightmost pane, and
> it can re-sort on the fly by  atime, basename, ctime, mtime, natural,
> type, size.

thanks for the recommendation, but it seems that I would prefer Dolphin
(see the other sub-thread).

One thing I don't understand is why you changed the subject line to
all-lowercase and with the funny characters after "file manager with". Normally
when replying, your mailer just adds a "Re:" to the subject line and you can
keep it at that.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> 
> 
> 
> From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
> I am looking for a file manager
> with the following capabilities:
> 
> 1. Should have a preview pane that gets updated automatically whenever
> I select
> a different file. Preview of text files should be adequate, but previewing
> other file formats would be a nice bonus.
> 
> 2. Should be able to delete files to a recycle bin, so they can be
> restored
> later on if I want to keep them.
> 
> 3. Ability to sort based on filename, size, date, etc.



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