Comments on: At long last: A look at vifm

By: Something old, something new: Console file managers « Motho ke motho ka botho

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:48:58 +0000

[...] vifm, ranger uses vi-style keystrokes and commands to handle most chores. F1 shows you all the important [...]

By: Luca

Luca — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:21:16 +0000

Heh, next up you’ll be using Bash in Vi mode!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:03:36 +0000

Ooh! Very interesting. …

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Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:58:17 +0000

[...] At long last: A look at vifm [...]

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:56:07 +0000

Okay, here is the old dude’s take.
1996:
OS: Slackware 1.?
Hardware:
Tandy MMPC-10
4 MB (RAM)
512K (V-RAM)
486 SX/25
I ran Linux for a year following a basic setup:
tty1: mc
tty2: jed
tty3: debugging my crappy code

By: skingrapher

skingrapher — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:55:14 +0000

I’m a basic vim user and I find vifm is easier than mc to use for me. But vimd has also a plugin to manage files : it’s NERDTree.

So, it seems to me that both make the same job.

Thanks for your post.

By: couchoGaucho

couchoGaucho — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:38:19 +0000

M-x dired

By: kamiheku

kamiheku — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:01:40 +0000

You should take a look at ranger, which is a similar program (a file manager with vi keys), but it’s got a different kind of interface. ranger-git in AUR. And Arch Forums thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93025

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:50:59 +0000

The help text, in Arch, should be in /usr/share/vifm/vifm-help.txt –or at least that is where I found mine…

Another little hack, if you are a keen vim user, is to change the command key from : to ; which fits nicely when you map that key in vim…