Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vi[m]-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
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/README.md
Vifm – Vim-like file manager
Version 0.15. This file last updated on 24 May 2025.
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) |
| thu.sh (image preview) | Repository (Sixel or Kitty) |
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 $MYVIFMRC).
License
GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
Hints
Before first commit, do not forget to setup your git environment:
git config --global user.name "your_name_here"
git config --global user.email "your@email_here"
git config --global user.email "your@email_here"
Clone this repository using HTTP(S):
git clone https://code.reversed.top/user/xaizek/vifm
Clone this repository using ssh (do not forget to upload a key first):
git clone ssh://rocketgit@code.reversed.top/user/xaizek/vifm
You are allowed to anonymously push to this repository.
This means that your pushed commits will automatically be transformed into a pull request:
... clone the repository ...
... make some changes and some commits ...
git push origin master
... make some changes and some commits ...
git push origin master