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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Core

• Added expression pseudo-register (Ctrl-R =) for command-line mode (thanks to Marcos Cruz and Jiji from Vifm Q2A site).
• Added parsing of \c and \C sequences in regular expressions to force case ignoring or matching respectively (thanks to filterfalse and Safal Piya, a.k.a. mrsafalpiya).

Configuration

• Changed how location of trash directory is determined. Now starting vifm --no-configs won't mess anything up if you're using ~/.vifm. Can potentially cause some trouble for existing configurations, but shouldn't.

Command-line mode

• Added :keepsel command. Changes default behaviour after running a :command to not reset selection of a view (thanks to dalvand and sharklasers996).
• Added -skip parameter to :copy/:move/:alink/:rlink. Makes the commands automatically skip files that exist at destination instead of refusing to proceed (thanks to Jose Riha, a.k.a. jose1711).
• Added handling of - in :session for switching to a previous session.
• Added :history exprreg menu for displaying history of expression register values.
• Do not reset selection on :view command (thanks to Alexandre Viau).
• Permit directories with trailing slashes supplied by external commands in :[un]select !cmd (patch by filterfalse).

Normal and visual modes

• Changed [c and ]c to also traverse added/missing entries (thanks to qsmodo).
• Added cl key visual mode (similar to its function in normal mode).
• Extended cl normal mode key to handle selection of multiple files (thanks to aleksejrs).
• Made gs normal mode key remember selection for up to 10 last entered directories (thanks to ratnamhof and Matthias Braun, a.k.a. mb720).

:set command and options

• Added 'autocd' option. Makes invalid :commands be interpreted as an implicit :cd command (thanks to Taras Halturin, a.k.a. halturin).
• Added %o macro to 'statusline', which expands to Unix permissions in octal form (and to nothing on Windows) (thanks to iSeeU816).
• Added datasync value to 'iooptions' option to configure whether writes on file copying when 'syscalls' is on are synchronized periodically (thanks to Andrew Savchenko and Afz).
• Added ehistory value to 'vifminfo' and 'sessionoptions' option. It manages storing of expression register history.
• Added optional border for horizontal split layout controlled by newly added hborder in 'fillchars' (patch by qsmodo).
• Added maxtreedepth value to 'previewoptions' option, which allows limiting depths of the displayed tree (thanks to Afz).
• Set 'title' option by default if $TERM is foot* as its terminfo entry might lack tsl and fsl attributes (thanks to nobodyatandnothing).

Macros

• Added %N macro that prevents detaching viewers from current session (thanks to emorozov).
• Added %pu macro that disables caching of viewer's output (thanks to b0x4it).
• Added %l/%"l and %L/%"L macros for the list of selected files. %f is not empty if there is no selection, which is not always desirable (thanks to ratnamhof).

Angle bracket notation

• Added angle-bracket notation for alpha keys with Alt and Shift modifiers (<[am]-s-[a-z]>, <s-[am]-[a-z]>) (thanks to Reece Petersen).
• Added angle-bracket notation for numeric keys with Alt modifier (<[am]-[0-9]>) (thanks to anonymous at Vifm Q2A site)
• Added angle-bracket notation for some shifted grey keys: <s-home>, <s-end>, <s-left>, <s-right>, <s-up>, <s-down>, <s-pageup>, <s-pagedown>, <s-delete>, <s-insert> (patch by M Kelly).

Scripting

• Extended has() builtin function to check for Lua handlers.
• Don't expand() macros in environment variables (patch by filterfalse).

Lua

• Upgraded Lua from 5.4.3 to 5.4.4
• Added sample plugin for using mpc.
• Added sample plugin for customizing editor.
• Added vifm.escape() function.
• Added vifm.run() function (similar to :!).
• Added vifm.sessions.current() function.
• Added vifm.keys.add() for adding mappings (can accept selectors or an argument like in 'a) and selectors.
• Enable os.tmpname().
• Exposed minimal API for tabs (includes layout).

TUI (Text User Interface)

• Escape unreadable characters in menus, command-line mode, dialogs and statusbar messages (thanks to MadMaverick9).
• Hide graphics when displaying dialogs or entering menus, more or file info modes (thanks to heelsleeh and PRESFIL).
• Fixed multiple cases of cursor/UI flickering.

Color schemes

• Added CmpUnmatched and CmpBlank highlight groups (thanks to qsmodo).

Menus and dialogs

• Changed conflict dialog to offer "Merge all" option even for files if there are some directories left to process (thanks to dalvand).
• Added comparison action to conflict resolution dialog (thanks to anonymous at Vifm Q2A site and dalvand).
• Display permissions in octal form in File Info dialog and group them with owner/group info (thanks to iSeeU816).
• Reformat File Info dialog to be more compact (thanks to chelovechishko).

Performance

• Extended optimizations for globs to cover something* and some*thing cases.

Vim-plugin

• Added :PeditVifm command (and corresponding :PeditVim) to the plugin (thanks to Mukund Mauji, a.k.a. maujim).

Only on Windows

• Added initial support for Yori shell on Windows (not everything might work well at this point) (thanks to LinArcX).
• Fixed argument escaping issues for foreground programs on Windows (thanks to fohrums).
• Fixed auto-detection of GUI programs on Windows, which prevents Vifm from waiting on them to finish (thanks to Azin Sharaf).
• Fixed start in :file[x]type commands on Windows not being considered as present.
• Fixed slashes being doubled in macros like %"c on Windows with cmd.exe as a shell (thanks to Toby Hawkins, a.k.a. HawkinsT).

Documentation

• Documented that <del> key might correspond to <bs> (thanks to dalvand).

Noteworthy fixes

• Fixed building when fdatasync() call isn't available (thanks to Schrijvers Luc, a.k.a. Begasus).
• Fixed severe performance degradation after measuring size of large directory trees.
• Fixed :compare listunique yielding different results depending on which view is active due to not processing bottom files in the current view in some situations.
• Fixed graphics not being cleared properly on switching between viewers in view mode.
• Fixed processing of extended keys on OpenBSD.
• Fixed :. file modifier incorrectly checking for one path being parent of another and producing weird results (/pa was considered parent of /path, with th being the result) (thanks to Dennis Preiser, a.k.a. 0xDP).
• Fixed --remote and --remote-expr failing if $TERM isn't valid (regression in 0.11-beta) (thanks to b0x4it).
• Fixed directory preview resetting after detaching from it (thanks to Luka Markušić, a.k.a. mark2185).

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