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Overview
Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings, 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
- 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
- colorschemes
- 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
- FAQ. Answers to frequently asked questions.
- Utility scripts. Scripts that help utilize external applications.