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Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt. | '''Vifm''' is an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses ncurses] based file manager with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi vi] like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client) 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) | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 UTF-8] support | |||
* user mappings (almost like in vi) | |||
* ranges in command-line commands | |||
* user defined commands (support ranges) | |||
* registers | |||
* operation undoing/redoing | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace FUSE] file systems support | |||
* trash | |||
* multiple files renaming (also known as "bulk renaming" or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_renaming "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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_(Unix) 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 | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls ls]-like view | |||
* customizable file name prefixes and suffixes | |||
* built-in integration with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen GNU Screen] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux tmux] | |||
* external editing of command line | |||
== Color themes == | == Color themes == | ||
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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
Color themes
There is seperate git repository containing a collection of color themes for vifm.
If you would like to just have one theme you could download it via wget like this:
user $ wget -P ~/.vifm/colors https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vifm/vifm-colors/master/solarized-dark
If you prefer to download all themes you could clone the entire repository, and stay up to date.
user $ rm -rf ~/.vifm/colors user $ git clone https://github.com/vifm/vifm-colors ~/.vifm/colors
To check for updates just type
user $ cd ~/.vifm/colors. user $ git pull
USE-Flags
- X
- extended-keys
- gtk
- magic
- developer
- vim
- vim-syntax