Package:Vifm

Vifm

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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