doctordrau / vifm

Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

Vifm – Vim-like file manager

    

Latest release is 0.12.1. This file last updated on 21 September 2022.

Brief Description

Vifm is a curses based Vim-like file manager extended with some useful ideas from mutt. If you use Vim, Vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands. It goes not just about Vim-like keybindings, but also about modes, options, registers, commands and other things you might already like in Vim.

Just like Vim, Vifm tries to adhere to the Unix philosophy. So instead of working solutions which are set in stone user is provided with a set of means for customization of Vifm to one's likings. Though builtin functionality should be enough for most of use cases.

Resources and Contacts

Usage	Link
Website	https://vifm.info/
Wiki	https://wiki.vifm.info/
Q & A	https://q2a.vifm.info/

Communication

Reason	Channel
Bugs & Feature Requests	GitHub, SourceForge or via email
Preferred place for asking usage questions	Posting on the Q&A site
Read-only and very low traffic news mailing list	vifm-announce

Other resources

Usage	Where to find
Repositories	GitHub and SourceForge
Vim Plugin	Repository
Colorschemes (maintained)	Repository and colorscheme-previews
Devicons/favicons	[1], [2]
vifmimg (image preview)	Repository (using überzug to display the images)
sixel image preview	Repository (for Sixel-capable terminals)

Screenshots

Getting Started

A good idea for quick start might be skimming over cheatsheet for the main mode (that is Normal mode), reading some sections on basic usage on the wiki and looking at sample configuration file (run :edit $MYVIFMC).

License

GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.