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Overview
Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt. If you use vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.
Features
- cross-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS)
- UTF-8 support
- user mappings (almost like in vi)
- ranges in command-line commands
- user defined commands (support ranges)
- registers
- operation undoing/redoing
- FUSE file systems support
- trash
- multiple files renaming (also known as "bulk renaming" or "batch renaming")
- filename modifiers
- Color schemes
- file name color according to generic file type
- path specific colorscheme customization
- bookmarks
- operation backgrounding
- customizable file viewers
- handy less-like preview mode with support of colors
- (interactive) filtering out and searching for files using regular expressions
- one or two pane view
- shell-like command line editing
- multicolumn view
- ls-like view
- customizable file name prefixes and suffixes
- built-in integration with GNU Screen and tmux
- external editing of command line
Main sections
- Contributing. Advices for those who would like to contribute bug report or feature request.
- Contributing to This Wiki. A place to map out and plan the topics found in the wiki.
- FAQ. Answers to frequently asked questions.
- Glossary. Explanation of abbreviations or ambiguous words.
- HOWTOs. Tutorials on various subjects.
- Manual. Main tutorial.
- Tips and Tricks. Description of some possibly unexpected/non-obvious uses of features.
- Utility scripts. Scripts that help utilize external applications.
- Vifm on the Web. List of pages related to Vifm.