mc

> 128 KB appears a point of diminishing returns, larger block sizes yield similar or worse performance. Indeed, 128 KB is a well-known long lasted optimal buffer size [1], [2]. Until it has been increased to 256 KB recently (07.04.2024) [3]. [1] https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/commit/e7c01c7781dcd... [2] https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/issues/2193 [3] https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/commit/933b111a5dc7d...

Would a commander type TUI work for you? https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc https://github.com/ranger/ranger https://github.com/jarun/nnn There's also superfile and broot. Personally I feel like they try to do a little too much, but that doesn't mean they won't work for you: https://github.com/yorukot/superfile https://github.com/Canop/broot

Depends on the archive type and how the vfs/extfs code was implemented for it¹. It also depends on how the archive is treated if it is compressed container, which can be seen by looking at how a .tar and .tar.xz are handled for example. The zip handler is probably the easiest to understand, as it doesn't need to contend with external compression wrappers and is a simple perl script. (In some cases it would probably be nicer if it did extract the entire archive to tmpfs, such as when you independently pull a few files from a massive .deb for example) Implementing your own extfs scripts to wrap a simple menu around some task can be really useful, far beyond basic archives. I wrote one so that I can shuffle my todo list priorities by moving fake "task files" in to different pseudo-directories. ¹ https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/

The beauty of that feature is the system to implement it - extfs(EXTernal virtual File System) - is built with simple scripts, so you can add your own little tools to make other things navigable beyond the ~40 that come bundled. There is a simple introduction in /usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/README, or https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/src/vfs/... .

For GNU/Linux, you have Midnight Commander https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc.git

https://github.com/ranger/ranger https://github.com/jarun/nnn https://github.com/gokcehan/lf https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc

thanks! re: extensibility -- mc does have scripting [1] (although not sure if you meant something else) re: image viewer -- hmm how would that work considering mc is running in terminal? I guess it could interact with some sort of modal window for file previews or something like that. [1] https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/misc/mc....