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welcome to rovr

let’s use the 5W1H framework to describe rovr and its latest improvements

a modern answer to a terminal file explorer, that is highly customisable to fit your workflow easily, while being aesthetically pleasing.

I can’t answer this question, but I can answer why you shouldn’t use rovr.
you shouldn’t use rovr if

  1. you have an existing workflow with any other file explorers (superfile excluded)
    other file managers like yazi, ranger or nnn are amazing file explorers, and rovr cannot compete with their flexibility, extensibility or just raw speed.

  2. you hate good looking things
    honestly, i don’t blame you, if you like your terminal to look clean, sure go use your three pane file explorer, or even just use the cli, i don’t mind.

I had quite some issues with superfile. it is an amazing project, and you should definitely go check it out.


however, some issues I had was with its performance. spf does not utilize either threads nor asyncio, everything runs on a single app process, which can lead to plenty of lag when traveling.
I would’ve loved to fix these issues, but I don’t have any golang background, and I found textual as a framework, and really wanted to put my skills to the test.
so I guess we are here now.