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Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings

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bind -x '"\C-o":vifm' This opens vifm but then when I drop down to the shell by pressing o on my keyboard triggering nnoremap o :shell<CR>, I am not able to use the ctrl + o keyboard ...
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In the vifm help, I found how to declare and use variables (options) :let &[l:|g:]opt = <expr> sets option value. ... option *vifm-expr-option* ---...
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In the vifmrc I tried to set a bookmark like bmark! $home/tmp tmp ... but that doesnt seem to work. What I get is a bookmark with the path /location_where_i_was_when_setting_the_bookmark/$home/tmp or ...
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I want to mount SFTP share to my computer and use it with Vifm. I tried with sshfs-win, but it is not stable.
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I would like to copy any file (audio, video, text, image) through the terminal and paste it in the browser. like ctr + c and ctrl + v.
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I wanted to put the selected file owner and current directory permissions (in the form drwxrwxrwx) in the form Owner:{owner}|Updir:{perms}. It turned out to be tricky, involving macros and internal ...
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I use VIFM in MS-Windows 10. Right now when I start VIFM, it opens up the VIFM install directory; something like C:/ProgramFilesMy/vifm-w64-se-0.10.1-binary in both the windows. But I would like VIFM ...
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I use VIFM from MS-Windows. How do I execute batch (.bat) files from VIFM?
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I've found that vifm's number option sets line numbers for the file list. I'd like to instead show line numbers for the preview window when it is visible (:view). How can this be done?
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This situation has come about through limitations in vifm (a vim-based file browser), but the question is really about the windows command line and powershell. In vifm I have implemented the ...
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By default, t is used to add files or directories to a selection in vifm. The selected items can then be used as parameters to filesystem operations (copy, delete, link, move, ..). Is it possible to ...
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hi i am using vifm on windows and really liking it. I have put this on vifmrc file to yank full filename to clipboard - nnoremap yf :!echo %d\%c%i| clip<cr> It works fine, but if the filename ...
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Is there any way to sort the files in vifm by time? Like ls -t in bash? I need to copy the last 4 downloaded files in vifm. Therefore I need to find a way to sort.
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I'm trying to set up a mapping to open a file with the OS-default application. I don't want to use the filetype command in my vifmrc, as explained here, because I want l and Enter to still open the ...
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I am trying to run Vifm on my windows 10 x64. I downloaded vifm-w64-se-0.8-binary file from sourceforge and tried to run vifm.exe from command prompt. This gives me the following error - LINES value ...
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