Vifm

“To all who have contributed to this great program, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. This may be the best program that has ever been installed on my computer. Vifm makes my time on the computer so much more efficient and enjoyable that I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate your efforts. Thank you so much for creating and continuing to work on this great product.”
— John Shea

“Thank you for this great Vifm tool whose slogan could be: "If you don't know how to do it, don't look at the docs, just think how you would do it in vi."”
— Carlos Pita

“Thanks so much for maintaining Vifm. I use it every hour I'm awake.”
— Roger Bongers

“There aren't many programs which stay useful and ergonomic for so many releases. I use vifm a lot. And it is the main tool for me while navigating fs. It's so configurable that it feels like a glove on a hand or even like skin. Keep it going!”
— Aetet

• Vim-like user mappings
• Vim-like command-line mode with ranges and abbreviations
• Vim-like marks and registers
• directory tree comparison
• operation undoing/redoing/backgrounding
• FUSE file systems support
• sessions
• color schemes, which can also be applied to specific sub-trees
• file decorations customizable according to their type and/or name
• named bookmarks (tags)
• less-like preview mode with customizable viewers
• advanced file filtering and renaming capabilities
• one or two pane view within tabs
• shell-like and external command-line editing
• table/grid/tree/miller views of files
• built-in integration with GNU Screen and tmux
• multi-block selection
• remembering position in previously visited directories
• remote command execution
• ability to script configuration for specific directories
• trash
• cross-platform (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS) and UTF-8 aware

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Normal and visual modes

• Made Ctrl-E/Ctrl-Y scroll transposed ls-like view horizontally by one column.
• Extended do and dp keys to process selection (thanks to Mark S., a.k.a. Markuzcha).

:set command and options

• Added 'mouse' option to control when mouse input is handled (not handled by default).
• Added 'navoptions' option to allow tweaking navigation mode a bit (thanks to filterfalse).
• Added 'tabline' option to specify format of the tab line.
• Added columncount: value to 'lsoptions' to always display fixed number of columns (thanks to Aleksandr Vysotskiy, a.k.a. loki1368).
• Added rpreview:files to 'milleroptions' (thanks to aksr).

Command-line mode

• Changed error reporting for some of the :commands such that now their failures cause a dialog to appear on sourcing, previously those errors were printed only to status bar.
• Changed implementation of :compare grouppaths to juxtapose only files with identical relative paths (patch by Alexandr Keyp, a.k.a. IAmKapuze).
• Added withicase and withrcase to :compare that force ignoring and respecting case respectively on comparing file names and paths (thanks to Jose Riha, a.k.a. jose1711).
• Added show* arguments to :compare command to control/switch which sets of files are displayed (toggling is done by :compare!) (patch by Alexandr Keyp, a.k.a. IAmKapuze).
• Added :amap, :anoremap and :aunmap commands to configure mappings in navigation mode (thanks to Henrik Holst, a.k.a. hholst80, and dmocek).
• Added :regedit command for external editing of register contents (thanks to Daniel J. Perry, a.k.a. BioBox; patch by Rostislav Tolushkin, a.k.a. nullptr-deref).
• Added Ctrl-Y key to command-line mode. It activates fast navigation that allows entering deep paths by a series of searches for individual path components (thanks to Henrik Holst, a.k.a. hholst80, and dmocek).
• Added Ctrl-J key to command-line navigation. It leaves the mode without opening a file/directory (thanks to filterfalse).
• Added Ctrl-O key to command-line navigation that goes to parent directory.
• Added Ctrl-N/Ctrl-P keys to command-line navigation to move view cursor up/down (thanks to Henrik Holst, a.k.a. hholst80, and dmocek).
• Added Arrows/Home/End/Page Up/Page Down keys to command-line navigation to move view cursor (thanks to Henrik Holst, a.k.a. hholst80, and dmocek).

Core

• Added printing stats while in :compare mode (patch by Alexandr Keyp, a.k.a. IAmKapuze).
• Don't move cursor on search failure during search with a count (patch by filterfalse).
• Specified a few more cases when to show a search message with search highlighting turned on: if found a match, if wrapping is turned on, and in visual mode (patch by filterfalse).
• A regular search logic showing messages is applied to n/N (patch by filterfalse).

File operations

• Made aborting deletion abort the operation on the rest of files when deleting multiple files.

Macros

• Changed %N macro to also not start a process group for a command (thanks to Oskar Grunning, a.k.a. sQVe).

Scripting

• Added input() builtin function to prompt user for input (thanks to Artur F., a.k.a. arturfabriciohahaedgy).
• Added filereadable() builtin function mainly as a way to check file's presence.

Menus and dialogs

• Added r key to :jobs menu, which reloads the list of jobs (thanks to Sylwia Ptasinska, a.k.a. SylEleuth).
• Made feedback after pressing dd in :jobs more prominent (thanks to Sylwia Ptasinska, a.k.a. SylEleuth).

TUI (Text User Interface)

• Added builtin handling of mouse events (thanks to ranousse, Sergei Shilovsky and user451421541757324; patch by 高浩亮, a.k.a. haolian9).
• Added ETA to detailed progress dialog (thanks to Jose Riha, a.k.a. jose1711).
• Apply file highlighting to ext and fileext view columns (thanks to aleksejrs).
• Merged file conflict comparison dialog into the main conflict dialog (thanks to aleksejrs).
• Made file conflict more concise (thanks to aleksejrs).

Color schemes

• Added additional User10..User20 highlight groups and corresponding %10*-%20* macros (thanks to Sylwia Ptasinska, a.k.a. SylEleuth).
• Update Default-256 to differentiate between more file types (thanks to aleksejrs).

Invocation

• Added --plugins-dir command-line option which allows specifying additional places to look for plugins (thanks to 高浩亮, a.k.a. haolian9).

Performance

• Reduced amount of memory consumed by :compare groupids.
• Made :compare bycontents not bother reading content of files which have unique size.

Documentation

• Provide basic instructions in the documentation on how mappings work (thanks to dmocek).
• Fixed description of %i macro in the documentation to mention that it runs command in background.

Packaging

• Changed use of $(filter-out) in src/Makefile.am to $(var:from=to) substitution to get rid of a warning on configuration.
• Changed how pthread support is detected by configure script to handle more cases (thanks to Markus Elfring, a.k.a. elfring).
• Changed configure script to fail if neither perl nor vim is available instead of failing to generate tags for Vim-style documentation (thanks to Sergei Trofimovich, a.k.a. trofi).
• Install icons also to ${prefix}/share/icons. It's not clear that using ${prefix}/share/pixmaps will always be handled properly (thanks to Szilárd Andai).

Integration

• Made instances running inside AppImage consider contents of /etc/vifm (thanks to aleksejrs).
• Fixed $VIFM_APPDIR_ROOT being ignored by :help command, which made it not work properly from AppImage (thanks to infinitewhileloop).

Only on Windows

• Fixed escaping of file paths when using 'vicmd' or 'vixcmd' to open a file on Windows (thanks to Phil Runninger).

Noteworthy fixes

• Fixed abort due to assertion failure on using zx normal mode key after leaving tree in some cases (thanks to Mark S., a.k.a. Markuzcha).
• Fixed asynchronous previewing of symbolic links, which required manual redraw (thanks to Alexandre Viau).
• Fixed FUSE mounting assuming 2> redirection is supported by the shell, which isn't true at least for csh and tcsh (thanks to Evgeniy, a.k.a. iron-udjin).
• Fixed dialogs not handling non-latin characters well.
• Fixed :locate never escaping its arguments (should be done unless the first one starts with a dash). This is a regression in 0.7.6.
• Fixed n/N not moving the cursor without prior search (patch by filterfalse).
• Fixed resetting 'hlsearch' during incremental search in visual mode (patch by filterfalse).
• Fixed dropping selected files on empty input during incremental search in visual mode when 'hlsearch' is set (patch by filterfalse).
• Fixed segfault on trying to use a pipe from Lua after its parent VifmJob object was garbage-collected (thanks to PRESFIL).
• Fixed 'previewprg' not being respected on switching to view mode (regression in 0.12-beta) (thanks to Sitaram Chamarty).

See change log for the full list of changes and by whom they were suggested or implemented.