[edit: colin.stephane has uploaded vfu version 4.10 to extras-devel [2] just some hours after I wrote this post. To prevent parallel development please use his packages instead of mine. I'll just keep my packages online for reference.]

Hi,

I like to use the CLI on my N900. But on the other hand I like easy navigation via a file manager. This is why I've always liked mc.
Unfortunately the small display limits the usefulness of two windows. So I looked for a CLI file manager without two windows and I found vfu [1]. I took the Debian Lenny armel package and the libpcre3 package it depends on, optified them, messed a bit with the dependencies (some of the libs in Freemantle 1.3 are even older than in Lenny ) and installed both on my N900. I didn't do much testing but it seems to work fine (despite of the older libs in Maemo).

I attached the two deb files in a tar.gz archive. Feel free to do with it whatever you want (as long as it's GPL compliant).
I don't have much experience with vfu so far. So please don't ask me any specific questions! But I'd like to see some suggestions for customized vfu.conf files. The only thing I did was to change the default editor from joe to nano.

btw: You should have Esc mapped somewhere on your keyboard, otherwise you'll get stuck in vfu sooner or later.

[1] http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu/
[2] http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=79563