vifm: Fast, lightweight, old school file manager

“Recently I have been covering some of the lighter weight file
managers for the Linux operating system. We’ve seen PCMan File
Manager and emelFM2 covered recently. I’ve also touched on Thunar
numerous times. All of these file managers have two things in
common: They are fast and they have GUIs. Today’s file manager
shares the speed, but not the GUI. This file manager is vifm. If
you know your Linux you can probably assume the “vi” is associated
with one of the most popular Linux editors, vi. That assumption is
correct.

“The vifm file manager is an ncurses-based file manager with vi
keybindings. So if you are used to vi, you will have no problems
using vifm. Now vifm is not heavily developed. In fact, the last
release was August 7, 2009. But it’s still a worthy file manager
for those looking for more text-based management tools. In this
article, I will introduce you to one of the best text-based file
managers.”

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