Manual
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This is work in progress. See Contributing to This Wiki#Manual_Outline for outline of what is planned to have here. At the moment chapters listed below are available.
Ideology
- Main principles on which VIfm is build and according to which it's developed.
- Vifm as part of environment.
Quickstart Tutorial
- Basic movement commands.
- Opening files, starting applications, running external commands.
- Basic configuration.
Configuration model
- Configuration files location and structure.
- Affecting use of configuration files by Vifm.
Quitting Vifm
- Configuring Vifm to preserve its state across sessions.
- How state conflicts are resolved.
- Leaving Vifm started in special "file-picker" mode.
Command-line and alike modes
- Moving around and editing.
- Command and argument completion.
- Working with history.
- Pasting runtime context into command-line.
- Editing command-line externally.
Color schemes
- Creating new color schemes.
- List of third-party color schemes.
- Troubleshooting.