Vifm

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Customization of tab labels

New highlight groups

Sessions

Vim -> Vifm color scheme converter

Normal and visual modes:

• Added gF normal mode key which acts like gf, but goes all the way to the ultimate target of the chain of symbolic links (thanks to Alexandre Viau).
• Improve navigation on gf key. Do fewer refreshes and disable filters to make target visible.

Core:

• More sensible merging of histories from multiple instances in vifminfo file (avoids dropping of new entries).
• Invalidate cached directory information (size or number of files) on inode change (thanks to Jose Riha, a.k.a. jose1711).
• Invalidate cached directory size when using it to compute size of some parent directory.
• Improve cursor positioning after file operations.
• Made it possible to escape commas in patterns (as usual, by doubling) (thanks to filterfalse).

Command-line mode:

• Added :tabo[nly] command that closes all tabs but the current one.
• Added :session and :delsession commands to manage sessions (thanks to Marcos Cruz).
• Added optional full parameter for the :restart command, which makes it discard essentially all context. This is useful with persistent tabs (thanks to Yusuf Aktepe).
• Don't reset histories of views in inactive tabs on :restart.
• Improve differentiation between association and list forms of :colorscheme command on startup. This is important if list contains name of color scheme that doesn't exist.

:set command and options:

• Added tabs value to 'vifminfo' option. It enables persistent tabs (thanks to Cosmin Popescu, a.k.a. cosminadrianpopescu, filterfalse and Neil Griffin, a.k.a. ngriffin7a).
• Added v flag to the 'tuioptions' option. It controls whether width of middle border is adjusted to equalize view sizes (thanks to Matthias Braun, a.k.a. mb720).
• Added 'sessionoptions' option, which is an alternative to 'vifminfo' for session files.
• Added 'tablabel' option that specifies format of a single tab's label when non-empty (thanks to aleksejrs).
• Added 'tabprefix' and 'tabsuffix' options that allow customizing tabline separators (thanks to CoreCube).
• Added treeleafsparent value to 'dotdirs' option (thanks to filterfalse and Melandel).
• Do not require dhistory to be present in 'vifminfo' for savedirs to work.

Menus and dialogs:

• Added rate and progress bar to progress dialog (patch by Alborz Jafari).
• Added real (fully resolved) path to the File Info dialog (thanks to Alexandre Viau).
• Added number of hard links to the File Info dialog.
• Abort menu, more or file information modes before processing remote commands (thanks to kangshugang).
• Deduplicate elements of the :file menu.
• Make displaying of spaces in mappings more intelligent by using <space> at the start or end of LHS or RHS.

File preview:

• Improve handling of long or unknown escape sequences in previews (thanks to bratekarate).
• Use global color scheme for preview on the other pane ignoring its directory-specific color scheme.
• Invalidate textual quickview cache if it contains fewer lines than window height and is incomplete.

TUI (Text User Interface):

• Try harder to preserve position of the splitter. Avoid its drift on terminal resizes and preserve ratio of windows on startup and tab switches (thanks to Shakil Akhtar).
• Prevent internally selected files (e.g., via a range of a :command) from appearing selected in user interface (thanks to filterfalse).
• Reduce width of top line when side borders are hidden (set tuioptions-=s) (thanks to Svyatoslav Mishyn, a.k.a. juef).
• Escape some characters as ^X in view and tab titles, custom menu titles, on statusline and in terminal title (thanks to filterfalse).
• Use the same label for :grep and :find custom lists as the one used for :grep and :find menus (thanks to filterfalse).
• Use unexpanded command for title of custom file lists produced using %u or %U macros and menus produced using %m or %M macros (thanks to filterfalse).
• Use name of user-defined command in titles of custom views and menus (thanks to filterfalse).
• Preserve more information in the title on turning custom view into tree using :tree (thanks to filterfalse).
• Limit length of custom file list title to 80 character positions (thanks to filterfalse).

Integration:

• Detect being run under Wayland (relevant for :filextype commands) (thanks to mhdzli).
• Make 'title' option work in all terminals which contain tsl and fsl capabilities (thanks to m-kru).
• Update terminal title when in menus (thanks to filterfalse).

Color schemes:

• Added HardLink highlight group for regular files with more than one hard link (patch by Hans Bieshaar).
• Added LineNr highlight group for highlighting line number column of views (thanks to Anton Gepting).
• Added OddLine highlight group for highlighting every second entry line of a pane (thanks to iSeeU816).

Scripting:

• Added v:jobcount builtin variable that provides number of active jobs (number of lines in :jobs menu) (thanks to iSeeU816).
• Added v:session builtin variable that provides name of current session or is set to an empty string.

Configuration:

• Added three MC-like shortcuts to sample vifmrc files (Alt-I, Alt-O and Ctrl-U) (thanks to Hans Bieshaar).
• Added global Default-256 color scheme to be used in terminals that support 256-color palette (automatically in sample vifmrc) (thanks to Shakil Akhtar).
• Create $VIFM/colors directory with default color scheme only on the first run (thanks to ranousse).
• Use mime-types in associations in sample vifmrc (thanks to Shakil Akhtar).

Performance:

• Significantly improved performance of adding files to registers that contain thousands of files. As a result contents of registers is sorted now (thanks to Typo).
• Significantly improved performance of adding files to trash that contains thousands of files. As a result contents of trash is sorted now (thanks to Typo).
• Significantly improved speed of sourcing files (includes processing configuration on startup and :restart).
• Significantly improved speed of handling typical globs (and therefore mime-type matchers) and reduced amount of memory they take up (thanks to yanzhang0219).
• Improve performance of mime-type detection by caching the results.
• Make comparing files by contents (:compare bycontents) somewhat faster (thanks to maxigaz).
• Don't force view reload after every :command that resets selection when there was non-empty selection. This might make metadata of files less up-to-date, but should increase overall performance (thanks to Jose Riha, a.k.a. jose1711).
• Avoid reloading source file list after copy or move operation when possible (thanks to Jose Riha, a.k.a. jose1711).

Vim-plugin:

• Added :VifmCs command to the plugin for "converting" Vim's color scheme into a Vifm's one (patch by Roman Plášil, a.k.a. Quiark).
• Multiple improvements of syntax highlighting.

Documentation:

• Added references to "Menus and dialogs" section of documentation from :commands and keys which open menus and dialogs detailed there.
• Explicitly documented that macros are expanded in user defined commands (thanks to gcmt).
• Made documentation of :command more comprehensible.
• Document that user must disable netrw plugin on his own when enabling g:vifm_replace_netrw. Vifm's plugin can't do it, because it's loaded after plugins shipped with Vim.
• Documented how selection is handled on launching files (like on l or Enter keys).
• Improve documentation on bycontents of :compare (thanks to maxigaz).
• Somewhat improved documentation on 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase' options (thanks to filterfalse).
• Fixed Vim version of the documentation lacking description of %p macro of 'findprg'.

Only on Windows:

• Added basic support for using PowerShell (pausing doesn't work) (thanks to Fang, a.k.a. peromage).
• Display targets of .lnk-files in file information dialog.
• Implemented capturing output of background applications (thanks to Gene Zharov).
• Follow targets of .lnk-files (thanks to Alexandre Viau).
• Fixed 'chaselinks' (symbolic links weren't resolved).
• Fixed creating symbolic links with 'syscalls' being turned on.
• Fixed creating symbolic links with spaces in source or target paths.
• Fixed Alt key combinations being broken since v0.9.
• Fixed running non-cmd shells being broken by adding 'shellcmdflag' in 0.10.1.
• Fixed issues with non-tiny 'shellcmdflag' (patch by Bas Bossink, a.k.a. basbossink).
• Fixed detecting presence of :file[x]type commands on Windows when backslashes are present in path (thanks to anonymous and n.e. at Vifm Q2A site).

Packaging:

• Avoid interposing system's reallocarray(), when it's present (thanks to Ben Boeckel, a.k.a. mathstuf).
• Install only one version of sample config and media script, the one which corresponds to operating system being used (thanks to Michael Vetter, a.k.a. jubalh and Ondrej Novy, a.k.a. onovy).
• Clean up tests directory on make clean in the top of the tree.

Important fixes:

• Fixed generation of :highlight command for OtherWin on writing $VIFM/colors/Default.vifm. The bug caused white background of inactive pane (thanks to Stas Malavin).
• Fixed :move subdir & renaming file in the process and doing weird stuff to multiple files (thanks to 45jqlakjrf87ayte7hy34ter4nguijauzl4eitk).
• Fixed graphics preview not being cleared on switching tabs or starting external applications (including on :shell).
• Fixed mapped keys being reinterpreted as builtin keys if RHS of the mapping failed at some point (e.g., contained an unmapped key) (thanks to Seok Won Lee, a.k.a. ijleesw).
• Fixed dialogs not being visible when UI updates are silenced via <silent> mappings.
• Fixed panic on some redraw operations mixing with file operations during terminal resizing (thanks to aca).

See change log for the full list.