What's in?

• Support unlimited number of scripts
• Pass currently selected filename as first argument to custom scripts
• Support directory auto-select in navigate-as-you-type mode
• Show selection name in archive name prompt
• Support Cygwin opener
• Better support on RHEL 25 with earlier version of curses
• Sample script for fzy integration
• Now available on OpenBSD
• Disabled package generation for Ubuntu 17.10

What's in?

• Run a custom script
• Archive selected file/directory
• Show number of cherry-picked files in multi-copy mode
• Env var NNN_SHOW_HIDDEN to show hidden files by default
• More informative help screen
• Prefer env var VISUAL, if defined, to EDITOR
• New/changed/remapped shortcuts
  • ^] - spawn a new shell in current directory
  • r - edit directory entries in vidir
  • R - run a custom script
  • f - archive entry
  • ^I - toggle navigate-as-you-type mode
  • L - lock the current terminal (Linux-only)
• All Ctrl shortcuts enabled in navigate-as-you-type mode
• Fix: GUI programs closing when parent terminal is closed
• Recognize ~, - and & at bookmark prompt
• Recognize ruby (.rb) files as text files
• Efficient integer-only file size calculation
• Official inclusion on openSUSE and Fedora
• Package generation for Ubuntu 18.04

What's in?

• Batch rename/move/delete files in vidir from moreutils
• Copy multiple file paths
• Copy file paths when X is unavailable
• Optionally quote individual file paths with single quotes on copy
• Use ISO 8601 date format in file details
• New/changed/remapped shortcuts:
  • ^Y - multi-path copy
  • ^B - show bookmark prompt (replaces b)
  • b - pin current dir (replaces ^B)
  • ^J - toggle du mode
  • R - batch rename files in vidir
  • ^F - extract archive (replaces ^X)
  • ^G - quit nnn and change dir
  • ^X - quit nnn (replaces ^Q)
• Extra shortcuts enabled in navigate-as-you-type mode:
  • ^K, ^Y (file path copy)
  • ^T (toggles quoted file path copy)
  • ^R (rename)
  • ^O (open with...)
  • ^B (show bookmark prompt)
  • ^V (visit pinned dir)
  • ^J (toggle du mode)
  • ^/ (open desktop opener)
  • ^F (extract archive)
  • ^L (refresh)
  • ^G (quit nnn and change dir)
  • ^X (quit nnn)

Merry Christmas!!!

nnn v1.6 is even faster and leaner! We achieved these figures: https://github.com/jarun/nnn#performance

What's in?

• Shortcut ^O to open file with custom application
• Option -b to open bookmarks directly at start
• Huge performance improvements around file name storing and handling
• Several large static buffers removed or reduced
• Several internal algorithms fine tuned for performance/resource usage

What's in?

• File and directory creation (n)
• Env variable NNN_NOWAIT to unblock nnn when opening files (DE-specific)
• Show current entry number in status bar
• Support archive listing (F) and extraction (Ctrl-X) [using atool]
• Show correct file size on i386 for large files (> 2GB)

What's in?

• Monitor directory changes
• In-place file rename
• Pin a directory (Ctrl-B) and visit it anytime (Ctrl-V)
• Auto-completion scripts
• Show volume capacity and free in help
• Auto-fallback to light mode if too few columns (< 35)
• PackageCore integration
• Unsupported Function keys (they never work universally):
  • F2 (rename), use Ctrl-R
  • F5 (refresh), use Ctrl-L

What's in?

• Show directories in custom color (default: enabled in blue)
• Option -e to use exiftool instead of mediainfo
• Fixed #34: nftw(3) broken with too many open descriptors
• More concise help screen

What's in?

• Use the desktop opener (xdg-open on Linux, open(1) on OS X) to open files
• Option NNN_USE_EDITOR to open text files in EDITOR (fallback vi)
• Bookmark support (maximum 10, key b)
• Navigate-as-you-type mode (key Insert or option -i)
• Subtree search: gnome-search-tool, fallback catfish (key ^/) (customizable)
• Show current directory content size and file count in disk usage mode
• Add detail view mode as default, use -l to start in light mode
• Shortcuts F2 and ^L to refresh and unfilter Note: if filter is empty, Enter opens the currently selected file now
• Help screen shows bookmarks and configuration
• Show a message when calculating disk usage
• Show the spawned shell level
• Linux only: use vlock as the locker on timeout (set using NNN_IDLE_TIMEOUT)

News

• Introducing nlay - a highly customizable bash script to handle media type
• nnn is on Homebrew now
• RPM packages for CentOS 7 and Fedora 24 generated on release

What's in?

• Search-as-you-type
• Unicode support
• Option -S to start in disk usage analyzer mode
• Show media information (using mediainfo)
• Use readline at change directory prompt
• Jump to prev directories using cd ..... (with . as PWD)
• Jump to initial directory using &
• Show help, mediainfo and file info in PAGER
• Several optimizations

Modifications

Behaviour and navigation

• Detail view (default: disabled) with:
  • file type (directory, regular, symlink etc.)
  • modification time
  • human-readable file size
  • current item in reverse video
  • number of items in current directory
  • full name of currently selected file in 'bar'
• Show details of the currently selected file (stat, file)
• Disk usage analyzer mode (within the same fs, doesn't follow symlinks)
• Directories first (even with sorting)
• Sort numeric names in numeric order
• Case-insensitive alphabetic content listing instead of upper case first
• Key - to jump to last visited directory
• Roll over at the first and last entries of a directory (with Up/Down keys)
• Removed navigation restriction with relative paths (and let permissions handle it)
• Sort entries by file size (largest to smallest)
• Shortcut to invoke file name copier (set using environment variable NNN_COPIER)

File association

• Set NNN_OPENER to let a desktop opener handle it all. E.g.:

  export NNN_OPENER=xdg-open
  export NNN_OPENER="gio open"
  export NNN_OPENER=gvfs-open
  

• Selective file associations (ignored if NNN_OPENER is set):

  • Associate plain text files (determined using file) with vi
  • Associate common audio and video mimes with mpv
  • Associate PDF files with zathura
  • Removed less as default file opener (there is no universal standalone opener utility)
  • You can customize further (see how to change file associations)

• NNN_FALLBACK_OPENER is the last line of defense:

  • If the executable in static file association is missing
  • If a file type was not handled in static file association
  • This may be the best option to set your desktop opener to

• To enable the desktop file manager key, set NNN_DE_FILE_MANAGER. E.g.:

  export NNN_DE_FILE_MANAGER=thunar
  

Optimization

• All redundant buffer removal
• All frequently used local chunks now static
• Removed some redundant string allocation and manipulation
• Simplified some roundabout procedures
• Compiler warnings fixed
• strip the final binary