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Questions tagged [vifm]

Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt.

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Copying address of active directory in VIFM

Is there a way to yank the address of the active directory within vifm?
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Leaving VIFM in such a way that the terminal directory is the same as the last visited VIFM directory

I'm trying to achieve what was described in the title. I followed these directions (http://sourceforge.net/p/vifm/feature-requests/24/) but they did not work. Here are the instructions I followed: Add special command to vifmrc command Q :execute…
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Viewing PDF's in VIFM with Evince

I am unable to view PDF's in VIFM with Evince (my pdf viewer of choice). How does one do this?
George
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In VIFM, how do I define a movement that takes me to the most recently edited file?

I have not been able to find a VIFM motion that moves directly to the most recently edited file when I am elsewhere in the directory. Is there such a motion? If not, is it possible to define one? I have tried using the window sorting for Time…
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How to make the “l” key or arrow in vifm move to preview pane instead of opening a file in vim?

Currently, when clicking the letter l or arrow →, if I am on a directory it moves into it but if I am on a file it opens it in vim. I am wondering if there is a way to change this behaviour for files to move into the "view" pane instead of opening…
I J
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vifm: How to format mtime column to display Year?

I'm quite new to vifm but I've been reading the manual and browsing around. So far I've been able to do all I wanted to do with it, but I'm missing a piece. I wanted to display the modification date as the "2nd column" (and in fact, I sort by that…
Martin Marconcini
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Opening nautilus from vifm

If I browse to a folder in VIFM, is there a way to open a nautilus window from that location? I'm interested in this so I can use point-and-click drag and dropping features of nautilus in certain contexts (vifm is the most efficient way to find a…
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How to use terminal command in vifm

I want to run terminal command in vifm For example, Can I execute code . command in vifm?
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