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Ease of use

The fact that Midnight Commander and Ranger are terminal applications will write them off for a lot of people. This is a shame, because it’s pretty intuitive to navigate then you’ll be fine and if not, just press ? to access man pages, key bindings or commands. You can input like commands in Ranger, but it comes configured with Midnight Commander-style shortcuts.

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