I like using terminal file managers for quickly traversing many nested directories, where I'm not sure where I want to go. I can use it to browse around and hjkl is familiar as a vim user.
With ranger[0], I can even use it as an alternative to cd, which is often the most convenient (I usually want a terminal in the last directory I browsed to, not the place where I opened the file manager[1]).
I hope to find a way to use nnn similarly, but it (like ranger) doesn't seem to support this out of the box.
> but it (like ranger) doesn't seem to support this out of the box
No utility can support cd-on-quit out of the box because a spawned process can't send the $PWD to the parent directly when it quits. It needs tweaks in your shell's rc file. nnn also needs the same instrumentation.
With ranger[0], I can even use it as an alternative to cd, which is often the most convenient (I usually want a terminal in the last directory I browsed to, not the place where I opened the file manager[1]).
I hope to find a way to use nnn similarly, but it (like ranger) doesn't seem to support this out of the box.
[0]: https://github.com/ranger/ranger
[1]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/342064/ranger-cd-in...