CliFM Files

After 5 years of development, version 1.0 (Mario) is ready!

Tons of new features

• Optional case insensitive path completion and directory jumping
• Recursive search via find
• New option to disable ELN's
• New matching algorithm for the directory jumper using frecency (frequency + recency).
• Only-list-matches (no cd) option for the directory jumper (jl).
• Option to run trash in place or rm to prevent accidental deletions
• Copy selected files and bulk rename them at once
• Invert search/selection: exclude via exclamation mark
• Advcpmv support (wcp is also supported to copy files)
• Fused parameters support for ELN's: o12 instead of o 12
• Files list max
• New sorting methods: owner and group
• Improved long view formatting
• New, much faster long view function
• New, faster listing algorithm: scandir(3) was replaced by readdir(3) and qsort(3)
• Workspaces (up to 8)
• String support for cmd history
• REGEX filter to exclude group of filenames from the files list
• Option to disable columns
• Read stdin: cmd | clifm or clifm < list.txt
• Plugins can now talk to CliFM via a dedicated pipe (CLIFM_BUS)
• Batch link
• Icons support (depends on icons-in-terminal)
• Tested on both tmux and screen
• Kangaroo, a built-in directory jumper similar to autojump, z.lua, and zoxide
• REGEX for all internal commands
• File picker and CD on quit (as shell functions)
• Integration with FZF via plugins
• Plugins: Music playlist, pdf reader, wallpaper setter, image/video preview, updates check, fuzzy finder, fuzzy jumper, drag and drop, FZF navigation, FZF selection, and interactive help plugins
• Completions for Bash
• Theming support via color schemes
• Pinned file/dir
• Show only directories option
• Environment variables
• Bookmark names expansion
• New command line options
• Stealth mode
• Support for custom keybindings and configuration files
• More than 20 new keybinds
• Lock terminal
• Filetype filter for selections
• Allow changing readline to vi editing mode

Bug Fixes

• Select /home and you get a negative size
• dir_size function not properly handling large sizes
• When switching between light and normal mode in the program, Enter does not work in the pager
• Not extracting archives containing spaces in name
• Wrong columns width with kanji alphabets (CJK)
• r * refuses to remove directories
• Export not exporting files in CWD when no parameter is passed
• Wrong list dir when scandir(3) error
• Bad keybinds in config file
• autocd and auto-open not enabled when external commands are not enabled
• Bookmarking a file (with bm add) without shortcut and name won't work
• Crash when saving dirhist and there is no directory history
• Select a directory in root and you get this: //dir
• Bookmark names expansion may conflict with filenames in CWD
• Issue with background color when using RGB colors
• Wrong filenames for files selected in root dir
• Wrong color for directories with no read permission
• Memory leak in file_info structure
• Selected files are not deselected after r sel.
• Filetype filter not working in current working directory
• In Alt-{i,f,y} keybindings the first line of the prompt is not printed
• Clear screen not working in long mode
• Dirhist stuck at non-existing directory