VIFM(1)			    General Commands Manual		       VIFM(1)

NAME
       vifm - vi file manager

SYNOPSIS
       vifm [OPTION]...
       vifm [OPTION]... path
       vifm [OPTION]... path path

DESCRIPTION
       Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings.	If you
       use  vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files with-
       out having to learn a new set of commands.

OPTIONS
       vifm starts in the current directory unless it is given a different di-
       rectory on the command line or 'vifminfo'  option  includes  "savedirs"
       (in which case last visited directories are used as defaults).

       -      Read list of files from standard input stream and compose custom
	      view  out of them (see "Custom views" section).  Current working
	      directory is used as a base for relative paths.

       <path> Starts Vifm in the specified path.

       <path> <path>
	      Starts Vifm in the specified paths.

       Specifying two directories triggers split view even when	 vifm  was  in
       single-view mode on finishing previous run.  To suppress this behaviour
       :only command can be put in the vifmrc file.

       When only one path argument is found on command-line, the left/top pane
       is automatically set as the current view.

       Paths  to  files	 are  also allowed in case you want vifm to start with
       some archive opened.

       --select <path>
	      Open parent directory of the given  path	and  select  specified
	      file in it.

       -f     Makes   vifm   instead  of  opening  files  write	 selection  to
	      $VIFM/vimfiles and quit.

       --choose-files <path>|-
	      Sets output file to write selection  into	 on  exit  instead  of
	      opening  files.	"-" means standard output.  Use empty value to
	      disable it.

       --choose-dir <path>|-
	      Sets output file to write last visited directory into  on	 exit.
	      "-" means standard output.  Use empty value to disable it.

       --delimiter <delimiter>
	      Sets  separator  for  list  of  file  paths written out by vifm.
	      Empty value means null character.	 Default is new	 line  charac-
	      ter.

       --on-choose <command>
	      Sets command to be executed on selected files instead of opening
	      them.   The  command may use any of macros described in "Command
	      macros" section below.  The command is executed once  for	 whole
	      selection.

       --plugins-dir <path>
	      Additional  plugins  directory (can appear multiple times).  The
	      last one added has the highest priority.

       --logging[=<startup log path>]
	      Log  some	 operational  details  to  $XDG_DATA_HOME/vifm/log  or
	      $VIFM/log.   If  the  optional startup log path is specified and
	      permissions allow one to open it for writing,  then  logging  of
	      early  initialization  (before configuration directories are de-
	      termined) is put there.

       --server-list
	      List available server names and exit.

       --server-name <name>
	      Name of target or this instance (sequential numbers are appended
	      on name conflict).

       --remote
	      Sends the rest of the command line to another instance of	 vifm,
	      --server-name is treated just like any other argument and should
	      precede  --remote on the command line.  When there is no server,
	      quits silently.  There is no limit on how many arguments can  be
	      processed.  One can combine --remote with -c <command> or +<com-
	      mand>  to	 execute commands in already running instance of vifm.
	      See also "Client-Server" section below.

       --remote-expr
	      passes expression to vifm server and prints  result.   See  also
	      "Client-Server" section below.

       -c <command> or +<command>
	      Run  command-line	 mode  <command> on startup.  Commands in such
	      arguments are executed in the order they appear in command line.
	      Commands with spaces or special symbols must be enclosed in dou-
	      ble or single quotes or all special symbols  should  be  escaped
	      (the  exact  syntax strongly depends on shell).  "+" argument is
	      equivalent to "$" and thus picks last item of of the view.

       --help, -h
	      Show a brief command summary and exit vifm.

       --version, -v
	      Show version information and quit.

       --no-configs
	      Skip reading vifmrc and vifminfo.


       See "Startup" section below for the explanations on $VIFM.

General keys
       Ctrl-C or Escape
	      cancel most operations (see "Cancellation" section below), clear
	      all selected files.  In addition	to  that  Escape  also	aborts
	      waiting  for  more  input when the current input is insufficient
	      for determining the shortcut.

       Ctrl-L clear and redraw the screen.  Can also reload file list  in  ap-
	      propriate modes (like normal and visual).

Basic Movement
       The basic vi key bindings are used to move through the files and pop-up
       windows.

       k, gk, or Ctrl-P
	      move cursor up one line.

       j, gj or Ctrl-N
	      move cursor down one line.

       h      when  'lsview' is off move up one directory (moves to parent di-
	      rectory node in tree view), otherwise move left one file.

       l      when 'lsview' is off move into a directory  or  launch  a	 file,
	      otherwise move right one file.  See "Selection" section below.

       gg     move to the first line of the file list.

       G      move to the last line in the file list.

       gh     go  up one directory regardless of view representation (regular,
	      ls-like).	 Also can be used to leave custom views including tree
	      view.

       gl or Enter
	      enter directory or launch a file.	 See "Selection"  section  be-
	      low.

       H      move to the first file in the window.

       M      move to the file in the middle of the window.

       L      move to the last file in the window.

       Ctrl-F or Page Down
	      move forward one page.

       Ctrl-B or Page Up
	      move back one page.

       Ctrl-D jump back one half page.

       Ctrl-U jump forward one half page.

       n%     move to the file that is n percent from the top of the list (for
	      example 25%).

       0 or ^ move  cursor  to the first column.  See 'lsview' option descrip-
	      tion.

       $      move cursor to the last column.  See  'lsview'  option  descrip-
	      tion.

       Space  switch file lists.

       gt     switch to the next tab (wrapping around).

       {n}gt  switch to the tab number {n} (wrapping around).

       gT     switch to the previous tab (wrapping around).

       {n}gT  switch to {n}-th previous tab.

Movement with Count
       Most movement commands also accept a count, 12j would move down 12
       files.

       [count]%
	      move to percent of the file list.

       [count]j
	      move down [count] files.

       [count]k
	      move up [count] files.

       [count]G or [count]gg
	      move to list position [count].

       [count]h
	      go up [count] directories.

Scrolling panes
       zt     redraw pane with file in top of list.

       zz     redraw pane with file in center of list.

       zb     redraw pane with file in bottom of list.

       Ctrl-E scroll pane one line down or column right (in transposed ls-like
	      view).

       Ctrl-Y scroll  pane  one	 line up or column left (in transposed ls-like
	      view).

Pane manipulation
       Second character can be entered with or without Control key.

       Ctrl-W H
	      move the pane to the far left.

       Ctrl-W J
	      move the pane to the very bottom.

       Ctrl-W K
	      move the pane to the very top.

       Ctrl-W L
	      move the pane to the far right.


       Ctrl-W h
	      switch to the left pane.

       Ctrl-W j
	      switch to the pane below.

       Ctrl-W k
	      switch to the pane above.

       Ctrl-W l
	      switch to the right pane.


       Ctrl-W b
	      switch to bottom-right window.

       Ctrl-W t
	      switch to top-left window.


       Ctrl-W p
	      switch to previous window.

       Ctrl-W w
	      switch to other pane.


       Ctrl-W o
	      leave only one pane.

       Ctrl-W s
	      split window horizontally.

       Ctrl-W v
	      split window vertically.


       Ctrl-W x
	      exchange panes.

       Ctrl-W z
	      quit preview pane or view modes.


       Ctrl-W -
	      decrease size of the view by count.

       Ctrl-W +
	      increase size of the view by count.

       Ctrl-W <
	      decrease size of the view by count.

       Ctrl-W >
	      increase size of the view by count.


       Ctrl-W |
	      set current view size to count.

       Ctrl-W _
	      set current view size to count.

       Ctrl-W =
	      make size of two views equal.

       For Ctrl-W +, Ctrl-W -, Ctrl-W <, Ctrl-W >, Ctrl-W | and Ctrl-W _  com-
       mands  count  can  be  given before and/or after Ctrl-W.	 The resulting
       count is a multiplication of those two.	So "2 Ctrl-W  2	 -"  decreases
       window size by 4 lines or columns.

       Ctrl-W | and Ctrl-W _ maximise current view by default.

Marks
       Marks are set the same way as they are in vi.

       You can use these characters for marks [a-z][A-Z][0-9].

       m[a-z][A-Z][0-9]
	      set a mark for the file at the current cursor position.

       '[a-z][A-Z][0-9]
	      navigate to the file set for the mark.


       There are also several special marks that can't be set manually:

	 - '  (single  quote) - previously visited directory of the view, thus
	   hitting '' allows switching between two last locations

	 - < - the first file of the last visually selected block

	 - > - the last file of the last visually selected block

Searching
       /regular expression pattern
	      search for files matching regular expression in  forward	direc-
	      tion and advance cursor to next match.

       /      perform forward search with top item of search pattern history.

       ?regular expression pattern
	      search  for files matching regular expression in backward direc-
	      tion and advance cursor to previous match.

       ?      perform backward search with top item of search pattern history.

       Trailing slash for directories is taken into account, so /\/ searches
       for directories and symbolic links to directories.  At the moment //
       works too, but this can change in the future, so consider escaping the
       slash if not typing pattern by hand.

       Matches are automatically selected if 'hlsearch' is set.	 Enabling
       'incsearch' makes search interactive.  'ignorecase' and 'smartcase' op-
       tions affect case sensitivity of search queries as well as local filter
       and other things detailed in the description of 'caseoptions'.


       [count]n
	      go to the next file matching last search	pattern.   Takes  last
	      search direction into account.

       [count]N
	      go  to  the  previous  file matching last search pattern.	 Takes
	      last search direction into account.

       If 'hlsearch' option is set, hitting n/N to perform a search and go to
       a matching item can reset existing selection in normal mode.  It hap-
       pens when there are no prior search results (i.e., no files with high-
       lighting of the matched part), otherwise the selection is left as is.
       Resetting search matches in any way (like running :nohlsearch or press-
       ing Escape) will force the search next time n/N is pressed and cause
       matching files to be selected.

       See also "Regular expressions" section.


       [count]f[character]
	      search forward for file with [character] as first	 character  in
	      name.  Search wraps around the end of the list.

       [count]F[character]
	      search  backward for file with [character] as first character in
	      name.  Search wraps around the end of the list.

       [count];
	      find the next match of f or F.

       [count],
	      find the previous match of f or F.

       Note: f, F, ; and , wrap around list beginning and end  when  they  are
       used alone and they don't wrap when they are used as selectors.

File Filters
       There are three basic file filters:

	 - dot files filter (does not affect "." and ".." special directories,
	   whose  appearance is controlled by the 'dotdirs' option), see 'dot-
	   files' option;

	 - permanent filter;

	 - local filter (see description of the "=" normal mode command).

       Permanent filter essentially allows defining a  group  of  files	 names
       which are not desirable to be seen by default, like temporary or backup
       files,  which  might  be	 created alongside normal ones.	 Just like you
       don't usually need to see hidden dot files (files starting with a dot).
       Local filter on the other hand is for temporary immediate filtering  of
       file  list  at hand, to get rid of uninterested files in the view or to
       make it possible to use % range in a :command.

       For the purposes of more	 deterministic	editing	 permanent  filter  is
       split into two parts:

	 - one edited explicitly via :filter command;

	 - another one which is edited implicitly via zf shortcut.

       Files  are tested against both parts and a match counts if at least one
       of the parts matched.


       Each file list has its own copy of each filter.

       Filtered files are not checked in / search or :commands.

       Files and directories are filtered separately.  This is done by append-
       ing a slash to a directory name before testing whether it matches the
       filter. Examples:


	 " filter directories which names end with '.files'
	 :filter /^.*\.files\/$/

	 " filter files which names end with '.d'
	 :filter {*.d}

	 " filter files and directories which names end with '.o'
	 :filter /^.*\.o\/?$/

       See also "Regular expressions" and "Patterns" sections.

       The basic Vim folding key bindings are used for managing filters.


       za     toggle visibility of dot files.

       zo     show dot files.

       zm     hide dot files.

       zf     add selected files to permanent filter.

       zO     reset permanent filter.

       zR     save and reset all filters.

       zr     clear local filter.

       zM     restore all filters (undoes last zR).

       zd     exclude selection or current file	 from  a  custom  view.	  Does
	      nothing for regular view.	 For tree view excluding directory ex-
	      cludes that sub-tree.  For compare views zd hides group of adja-
	      cent  identical  files,  count  can be specified as 1 to exclude
	      just single file or selected items instead.  Files excluded this
	      way are not counted as filtered out and can't be returned unless
	      view is reloaded.

       =regular expression pattern
	      filter out files that don't match regular	 expression.   Whether
	      view  is updated as regular expression is changed depends on the
	      value of the 'incsearch' option.	This kind of filter  is	 auto-
	      matically reset when directory is changed.

Tree-related Keys
       While  some  of the keys make sense outside of tree-view, they are most
       useful in trees.

       [z     go to first sibling of current entry.

       ]z     go to last sibling of current entry.

       zj     go to next directory sibling of current entry or do nothing.

       zk     go to previous directory sibling of current entry or do nothing.

       zx     toggle fold under the cursor or parent entry of the current file
	      if cursor is not on a directory.

Other Normal Mode Keys
       [count]:
	      enter command line mode.	[count] generates range.

       q:     open external editor to prompt for  command-line	command.   See
	      "Command line editing" section for details.

       q/     open external editor to prompt for search pattern to be searched
	      in  forward  direction.	See "Command line editing" section for
	      details.

       q?     open external editor to prompt for search pattern to be searched
	      in backward direction.  See "Command line editing"  section  for
	      details.

       q=     open external editor to prompt for filter pattern.  See "Command
	      line  editing"  section for details.  Unlike other q{x} commands
	      this one doesn't work in Visual mode.

       [count]!! and [count]!<selector>
	      enter command line mode with entered ! command.	[count]	 modi-
	      fies range.

       Ctrl-O go  backwards through directory history of current view.	Nonex-
	      istent directories are automatically skipped.

       Ctrl-I if 'cpoptions' contains "t" flag, <tab> and <c-i> switch	active
	      pane  just  like <space> does, otherwise it goes forward through
	      directory history of current view.  Nonexistent directories  are
	      automatically skipped.

       Ctrl-G show a dialog with detailed information about current file.  See
	      "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

       Shift-Tab
	      enter  view  mode	 (works	 only  after activating view pane with
	      :view command).

       ga     calculate directory size.	 Uses cached directory sizes when pos-
	      sible for better performance.  As	 a  special  case  calculating
	      size of ".." entry results in calculation of size of current di-
	      rectory.

       gA     like  ga,	 but  force  update.   Ignores old values of directory
	      sizes.

       If file under cursor is selected, each selected item is processed, oth-
       erwise only current file is updated.

       gf     find link destination (like l with 'followlinks' off,  but  also
	      finds directories).  On Windows additionally follows .lnk-files.

       gF     Same  as	gf,  but  resolves final path of the chain of symbolic
	      links.

       gr     only for MS-Windows
	      same as l key, but tries	to  run	 program  with	administrative
	      privileges.

       av     go into visual mode for updating current selection, any existing
	      selection is preserved.

       gv     go into visual mode restoring last selection.

       [reg]gs
	      if  register  is present, then all files listed in that register
	      that are visible in current view are selected.

	      When no register is specified, restore the last selection	 saved
	      for  this	 view  (similar to what gv does for visual mode selec-
	      tion).  When you leave a directory, its saved selection  is  re-
	      membered for that path and visiting the directory again restores
	      it.   Selection  for up to 10 distinct file-system locations are
	      remembered.

       gu<selector>
	      make names of selected files lowercase.

       [count]guu and [count]gugu
	      make names of [count] files starting from the current one lower-
	      case.  Without [count] only current file is affected.

       gU<selector>
	      make names of selected files uppercase.

       [count]gUU and [count]gUgU
	      make names of [count] files starting from the current one upper-
	      case.  Without [count] only current file is affected.

       e      explore file in the current pane.

       i      handle file (even if it's an executable and 'runexec' option  is
	      set).

       cw     change  word  is	used  to  rename a file or files.  If multiple
	      files are selected, behaves as :rename command run without argu-
	      ments.

       cW     change WORD is used to change only name of file (without	exten-
	      sion).

       cl     change  link  target.  If multiple files are selected, an editor
	      is spawn to edit paths.

       co     only for *nix
	      change file owner.

       cg     only for *nix
	      change file group.

       [count]cp
	      change file attributes (permission on  *nix  and	properties  on
	      Windows).	  If  [count]  is specified, it's treated as numerical
	      argument	for  non-recursive  `chmod`  command  (of   the	  form
	      [0-7]{3,4}).  See "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

       [count]C
	      clone file(s) [count] times.

       [reg][count]dd
	      move  files  to trash directory if 'trash' option is set, other-
	      wise delete them permanently.  See "Trash directory" section be-
	      low.

	      When "s" is present in 'cpoptions', operates on  selected	 files
	      or, in the absence of selection, the current one.	 When the flag
	      isn't set, always operates on the current file only.

       [reg]d[count]<selector>
	      like dd, but accepts motions/selectors.

       [count]DD or D[count]<selector>
	      like  dd and d<selector>, but always omits trash directory (even
	      when 'trash' option is set).  Affected by	 "s"  flag  in	'cpop-
	      tions'.

       [reg][count]Y or [reg][count]yy
	      yank files.

	      When  "s"	 is present in 'cpoptions', operates on selected files
	      or, in the absence of selection, the current one.	 When the flag
	      isn't set, always operates on the current file only.

       [reg]y[count]<selector>
	      yank files specified by motion/selector.

       [reg]p copy yanked files to the current directory or move the files  to
	      the  current directory if they were deleted with dd or :d[elete]
	      or if the files were yanked from trash  directory.   See	"Trash
	      directory" and "File copying" sections below.

       [reg]P move the last yanked files.  The advantage of using P instead of
	      d followed by p is that P moves files only once.	This isn't im-
	      portant  in  case	 you're	 moving	 files in the same file system
	      where your home directory is, but using P to move files on  some
	      other  file  system  (or	file systems, in case you want to move
	      files from fs1 to fs2 and your home is on	 fs3)  can  save  your
	      time.

       [reg]al
	      put symbolic links with absolute paths.

       [reg]rl
	      put symbolic links with relative paths.

       t      select or unselect (tag) the current file.

       u      undo last change.

       Ctrl-R redo last change.

       dp     in  compare view of "ofboth grouppaths" kind makes corresponding
	      entries of the other pane equal to the current one.  If at least
	      one file is selected, the command processes selection, otherwise
	      current file.
	      The semantics is as follows:
	       - nothing is done for identical entries
	       - if file is missing in current view, its pair gets removed
	       - if file is missing or differs in other view, it's replaced
	       - file pairs are defined by matching relative paths
	      File removal obeys 'trash' option.  When the option is  enabled,
	      the  operation  can  be undone/redone (although results won't be
	      visible automatically).
	      Unlike in Vim, this operation is	performed  on  a  single  line
	      rather than a set of adjacent changes.

       do     same as dp, but applies changes in the opposite direction.

       v or V enter visual mode, clears current selection.

       [count]Ctrl-A
	      increment first number in file name by [count] (1 by default).

       [count]Ctrl-X
	      decrement first number in file name by [count] (1 by default).

       ZQ     same as :quit!.

       ZZ     same as :quit.

       .      repeat  last  command-line  command (not normal mode command) of
	      this run (does nothing right after startup or :restart command).
	      The command doesn't depend on command-line history  and  can  be
	      used with completely disabled history.

       (      go  to  previous	group.	 Groups are defined by primary sorting
	      key.  For name and iname members of each group have  same	 first
	      letter, for all other sorting keys vifm uses size, uid, ...

       )      go to next group.	 See ( key description above.

       {      speeds  up  navigation to closest previous entry of the opposite
	      type by moving to the first file backwards when cursor is	 on  a
	      directory and to the first directory backwards when cursor is on
	      a	 file.	This is essentially a special case of ( that is locked
	      on "dirs".

       }      same as {, but in forward direction.

       [c     go to previous mismatched entry in directory comparison view  or
	      do nothing.

       ]c     go  to  next mismatched entry in directory comparison view or do
	      nothing.

       [d     go to previous directory entry or do nothing.

       ]d     go to next directory entry or do nothing.

       [r     same as :siblprev.

       ]r     same as :siblnext.

       [R     same as :siblprev!.

       ]R     same as :siblnext!.

       [s     go to the previous selected entry or do nothing.

       ]s     go to the next selected entry or do nothing.

       [S     same as [s, but wraps.

       ]S     same as ]s, but wraps.

Using Count
       You can use count with commands like yy.

       [count]yy
	      yank count files starting from current cursor position downward.

       Or you can use count with motions passed to y, d or D.

       d[count]j
	      delete (count + 1) files starting from current  cursor  position
	      downward.

Registers
       vifm  supports  multiple	 registers  to temporary store lists of yanked
       and/or deleted files.

       Registers are specified by pressing double quote key followed by a reg-
       ister name before typing a command.  Count is specified after a	regis-
       ter  name.   By default commands use unnamed register, which has double
       quote as its name.

       Though all commands accept registers, most commands  ignore  them  (for
       example,	 H  or	Ctrl-U).   Other  commands fill a register, append new
       files to it or use it as a source of list of files.

       Presently vifm supports ", _, a-z and A-Z characters as register names.

       As mentioned above " is unnamed register and has special meaning of the
       default register.  Every time a named register (a-z and A-Z)  is	 used,
       unnamed register is updated to contain the same list of files.

       _  is black hole register.  It can be used for writing, but its list is
       always empty.

       Registers with names from a to z and from A to Z are named ones.	  Low-
       ercase  registers  are cleared before adding new files, while uppercase
       ones aren't and should be used to append new files to the existing file
       list of a corresponding lowercase register (A for a, B for b, ...).

       Registers contain each  file  at	 most  once.   Nonexistent  files  are
       dropped	from  them.  In particular, registers can be changed on :empty
       command if they include files under trash directory (see "Trash	direc-
       tory" section below).

       Example:

	 "a2yy

       puts names of two files to register a (and to the unnamed register),

	 "Add

       removes one file and appends its name to register a (and to the unnamed
       register),

	 p or "ap or "Ap

       inserts previously yanked and deleted files into current directory.

Selectors
       y, d, D, !, gu and gU commands accept selectors.	 You can combine them
       with any of selectors below to quickly remove or yank several files.

       Most  of	 selectors are like vi motions: j, k, gg, G, H, L, M, %, f, F,
       ;, comma, ', ^, 0 and $.	 But there are some additional ones.

       a      all files in current view.

       s      selected files.

       S      all files except selected.

       Examples:

	 - dj - delete file under cursor and one below;

	 - d2j - delete file under cursor and two below;

	 - y6gg - yank all files from cursor position to 6th file in the list.

       When you pass a count to whole command and its selector they are multi-
       plied. So:

	 - 2d2j - delete file under cursor and four below;

	 - 2dj - delete file under cursor and two below;

	 - 2y6gg - yank all files from cursor position to  12th	 file  in  the
	   list.

Visual Mode
       Visual mode has two generic operating submodes:

	 - plain selection as it is in Vim;

	 - selection editing submode.

       Both  modes  select files in range from cursor position at which visual
       mode was entered to current cursor position (let's call	it  "selection
       region").  Each of two borders can be adjusted by swapping them via "o"
       or  "O"	keys  and  updating cursor position with regular cursor motion
       keys.  Obviously, once initial cursor position  is  altered  this  way,
       real start position becomes unavailable.

       Plain  Vim-like visual mode starts with cleared selection, which is not
       restored on rejecting selection ("Escape", "Ctrl-C", "v",  "V").	  Con-
       trary  to it, selection editing doesn't clear previously selected files
       and restores them after reject.	Accepting selection by	performing  an
       operation on selected items (e.g. yanking them via "y") moves cursor to
       the  top of current selection region (not to the top most selected file
       of the view).

       In turn, selection editing supports three types	of  editing  (look  at
       status bar to know which one is currently active):

	 - append - amend selection by selecting elements in selection region;

	 - remove  -  amend selection by deselecting elements in selection re-
	   gion;

	 - invert - amend selection by inverting selection of elements in  se-
	   lection region.

       No  matter  how	you  activate selection editing it starts in "append".
       One can switch type of operation (in the order given above) via	"Ctrl-
       G" key.

       Almost all normal mode keys work in visual mode, but instead of accept-
       ing selectors they operate on selected items.

       Enter  save selection and go back to normal mode not moving cursor.

       av     leave  visual mode if in amending mode (restores previous selec-
	      tion), otherwise switch to amending selection mode.

       gv     restore previous visual selection.

       v, V, Ctrl-C or Escape
	      leave visual mode if not in amending mode, otherwise  switch  to
	      normal visual selection.

       Ctrl-G switch  type of amending by round robin scheme: append -> remove
	      -> invert.

       :      enter command line mode.	Selection is cleared  on  leaving  the
	      mode.

       o      switch active selection bound.

       O      switch active selection bound.

       gu, u  make names of selected files lowercase.

       gU, U  make names of selected files uppercase.

       cl     change target of symbolic link(s).

       cw     same as running :rename command without arguments.

View Mode
       This mode tries to imitate the less program.  List of builtin shortcuts
       can be found below.  Shortcuts can be customized using :qmap, :qnoremap
       and :qunmap command-line commands.

       Shift-Tab, Tab, q, Q, ZZ
	      return to normal mode.

       [count]e, [count]Ctrl-E, [count]j, [count]Ctrl-N, [count]Enter
	      scroll forward one line (or [count] lines).

       [count]y, [count]Ctrl-Y, [count]k, [count]Ctrl-K, [count]Ctrl-P
	      scroll backward one line (or [count] lines).

       [count]f, [count]Ctrl-F, [count]Ctrl-V, [count]Space
	      scroll forward one window (or [count] lines).

       [count]b, [count]Ctrl-B, [count]Alt-V
	      scroll backward one window (or [count] lines).

       [count]z
	      scroll forward one window (and set window to [count]).

       [count]w
	      scroll backward one window (and set window to [count]).

       [count]Alt-Space
	      scroll forward one window, but don't stop at end-of-file.

       [count]d, [count]Ctrl-D
	      scroll forward one half-window (and set half-window to [count]).

       [count]u, [count]Ctrl-U
	      scroll   backward	  one  half-window  (and  set  half-window  to
	      [count]).

       r, Ctrl-R, Ctrl-L
	      repaint screen.

       R      reload view preserving scroll position.

       F      toggle automatic forwarding.   Roughly  equivalent  to  periodic
	      file reload and scrolling to the bottom.	The behaviour is simi-
	      lar to `tail -F` or F key in less.

       a      switch to the next viewer.  Does nothing for preview constructed
	      via %q macro.

       A      switch  to  the  previous viewer.	 Does nothing for preview con-
	      structed via %q macro.

       i      toggle raw mode (ignoring of defined viewers).  Does nothing for
	      preview constructed via %q macro.

       [count]/pattern
	      search forward for ([count]-th) matching line.

       [count]?pattern
	      search backward for ([count]-th) matching line.

       [count]n
	      repeat previous search (for [count]-th occurrence).

       [count]N
	      repeat previous search in reverse direction (for [count]-th  oc-
	      currence).

       [count]g, [count]<, [count]Alt-<
	      scroll to the first line of the file (or line [count]).

       [count]G, [count]>, [count]Alt->
	      scroll to the last line of the file (or line [count]).

       [count]p, [count]%
	      scroll to the beginning of the file (or N percent into file).

       v      invoke  an  editor  to  edit the current file being viewed.  The
	      command for editing is taken from the 'vicmd' or 'vixcmd' option
	      value and extended with middle line number prepended by  a  plus
	      sign and name of the current file.

       All  "Ctrl-W  x" keys work the same was as in Normal mode.  Active mode
       is automatically changed on navigating among windows.   When  less-like
       mode  activated	on  file preview is left using one by "Ctrl-W x" keys,
       its state is stored until another file is displayed using preview (it's
       possible to leave the mode, hide preview pane, do something else,  then
       get back to the file and show preview pane again with previously stored
       state in it).

Command line Mode
       These keys are available in all submodes of the command line mode: com-
       mand, search, prompt and filtering.

       Down,  Up, Left, Right, Home, End and Delete are extended keys and they
       are not available if vifm is compiled with --disable-extended-keys  op-
       tion.

       Esc, Ctrl-C
	      leave  command  line  mode,  cancels  input.  Cancelled input is
	      saved into appropriate history and can be recalled later.

       Ctrl-M, Enter
	      execute command and leave command line mode.

       Ctrl-I, Tab
	      complete command or its argument on editing of a :command,  com-
	      plete file names in file name prompts, move cursor onto the next
	      search  match  in	 file  search prompt (including in navigation)
	      when 'incsearch' is set.

       Shift-Tab
	      complete in reverse order or move cursor onto the previous  file
	      search match.

       Ctrl-_ stop completion and restore original input.

       Ctrl-B, Left
	      move cursor to the left.

       Ctrl-F, Right
	      move cursor to the right.

       Ctrl-A, Home
	      go to line beginning.

       Ctrl-E, End
	      go to line end.

       Alt-B  go to the beginning of previous word.

       Alt-F  go to the end of next word.

       Ctrl-U remove  characters  from	cursor	position till the beginning of
	      line.

       Ctrl-K remove characters from cursor position till the end of line.

       Ctrl-H, Backspace
	      remove character before the cursor.

       Ctrl-D, Delete
	      remove character under the cursor.

       Ctrl-W remove characters from cursor position  till  the	 beginning  of
	      previous word.

       Alt-D  remove  characters  from	cursor	position till the beginning of
	      next word.

       Ctrl-T swap the order of current and previous character and move cursor
	      forward or, if cursor past the end of line, swap	the  order  of
	      two last characters in the line.

       Alt-.  insert last part of previous command to current cursor position.
	      Each next call will insert last part of older command.

       Ctrl-G edit command-line content in external editor.  See "Command line
	      editing" section for details.

       Ctrl-N recall more recent command-line from history.

       Ctrl-P recall older command-line from history.

       Up     recall more recent command-line from history, that begins as the
	      current command-line.

       Down   recall  older command-line from history, that begins as the cur-
	      rent command-line.

       Ctrl-] trigger abbreviation expansion.

       Ctrl-R =
	      insert result of evaluating an expression.  Expression is to  be
	      entered  via  nested  command-line  prompt  (where this key does
	      nothing).	 Expansion of an erroneous expression is empty.

Fast navigation
       In order to streamline navigation through directory tree, you can enter
       a special form of command-line mode from search or local filter prompt.
       Once activated, pressing Enter opens currently selected	directory  and
       clears  the  prompt  in anticipation of the next component of the path.
       If entry under the cursor is a file, it is opened and the mode is  fin-
       ished.

       This  behaviour	is embedded in a command-line mode, but doesn't update
       input histories nor expands abbreviations and  redefines	 some  of  the
       mode's  mappings	 for the purpose of faster navigation through the file
       system rather than command-line editing.	 When on,  prompt  gets	 "nav"
       prefix.

       You can enable this behaviour on search by default via a mapping like:

	   nnoremap / /<c-y>


       Ctrl-Y enter  navigation	 mode.	Works only for search and local filter
	      started from a normal mode and  only  when  'incsearch'  is  set
	      ('wrapscan' is also nice to have set for search).

       Ctrl-Y return to a regular command-line mode.

       Enter, Right
	      either  enter  a	directory under the cursor without leaving the
	      mode and clear the prompt or  leave  the	mode  for  files.   If
	      'navoptions'  specifies  "open:all"  a  file under the cursor is
	      opened after leaving the mode.

       Ctrl-O, Left
	      go to parent directory.

       Ctrl-J leave the mode without undoing cursor position or filter state.

       Ctrl-N, Down
	      move view cursor down.

       Ctrl-P, Up
	      move view cursor up.

       Page Down
	      scroll view down.

       Page Up
	      scroll view up.

       Home   move view cursor to the first item.

       End    move view cursor to the last item.

Pasting special values
       The shortcuts listed below insert specified values into current	cursor
       position.  Last key of every shortcut references value that it inserts:
	 - c - [c]urrent file
	 - d - [d]irectory path
	 - e - [e]xtension of a file name
	 - r - [r]oot part of a file name
	 - t - [t]ail part of directory path

	 - a - [a]utomatic filter
	 - m - [m]anual filter
	 - = - local filter, which is bound to "=" in normal mode

       Values related to filelist in current pane are available through Ctrl-X
       prefix,	while  values  from  the other pane have doubled Ctrl-X key as
       their prefix (doubled Ctrl-X is presumably easier to type  than	upper-
       case  letters; it's still easy to remap the keys to correspond to names
       of similar macros).

       Ctrl-X c
	      name of the current file of the active pane.

       Ctrl-X d
	      path to the current directory of the active pane.

       Ctrl-X e
	      extension of the current file of the active pane.

       Ctrl-X r
	      name root of current file of the active pane.

       Ctrl-X t
	      the last component of path to the current directory of  the  ac-
	      tive pane.

       Ctrl-X Ctrl-X c
	      name of the current file of the inactive pane.

       Ctrl-X Ctrl-X d
	      path to the current directory of the inactive pane.

       Ctrl-X Ctrl-X e
	      extension of the current file of the inactive pane.

       Ctrl-X Ctrl-X r
	      name root of current file of the inactive pane.

       Ctrl-X Ctrl-X t
	      the last component of path to the current directory of the inac-
	      tive pane.


       Ctrl-X a
	      value of implicit permanent filter (old name "automatic") of the
	      active pane.

       Ctrl-X m
	      value  of	 explicit  permanent filter (old name "manual") of the
	      active pane.

       Ctrl-X =
	      value of local filter of the active pane.


       Ctrl-X /
	      last pattern from search history.

Command line editing
       vifm provides a facility to edit several kinds of data, that is usually
       edited in command-line mode, in external editor (using  command	speci-
       fied  by 'vicmd' or 'vixcmd' option).  This has at least two advantages
       over built-in command-line mode:
	 - one can use full power of Vim to edit text;
	 - finding and reusing history entries becomes possible.

       The facility is supported by four input submodes of the command-line:
	 - command;
	 - forward search;
	 - backward search;
	 - file rename (see description of cw and cW normal mode keys).

       Editing command-line using external editor is activated by  the	Ctrl-G
       shortcut.  It's also possible to do almost the same from Normal and Vi-
       sual modes using q:, q/ and q? commands.

       Temporary file created for the purpose of editing the line has the fol-
       lowing structure:

	 1. First line, which is either empty or contains text already entered
	    in command-line.

	 2. 2nd	 and all other lines with history items starting with the most
	    recent one.	 Altering this lines in any way won't  change  history
	    items stored by vifm.

       After  editing  application  is	finished the first line of the file is
       taken as the result of operation, when  the  application	 returns  zero
       exit  code.  If the application returns an error (see :cquit command in
       Vim), all the edits made to the file are ignored, but the initial value
       of the first line is saved in appropriate history.

More Mode
       This is the mode that appears when status bar content is so big that it
       doesn't fit on the screen.  One can identify the mode by "--  More  --"
       message at the bottom.

       The following keys are handled in this mode:


       Enter, Ctrl-J, j or Down
	      scroll one line down.

       Backspace, k or Up
	      scroll one line up.


       d      scroll one page (half of a screen) down.

       u      scroll one page (half of a screen) up.


       Space, f or PageDown
	      scroll down a screen.

       b or PageUp
	      scroll up a screen.


       G      scroll to the bottom.

       g      scroll to the top.


       q, Escape or Ctrl-C
	      quit the mode.

       :      switch to command-line mode.

Commands
       Commands are executed with :command_name<Enter>

       Commented  out  lines  should  start  with the double quote symbol ("),
       which may be preceded by whitespace characters intermixed with  colons.
       Inline  comments can be added at the end of the line after double quote
       symbol, only last line of a multi-line command can  contain  such  com-
       ment.  Not all commands support inline comments as it's not always pos-
       sible to identify one unambiguously:

	 - the syntax conflicts with names of registers

	 - the syntax conflicts with quoting arguments to commands

	 - mapping/abbreviation	 commands  can	expand	to arbitrary sequences
	   which can look like a comment without being one

       Most of the commands have two forms: complete and the short one.	 Exam-
       ple:

	 :noh[lsearch]

       This means the complete command is nohlsearch, and  the	short  one  is
       noh.

       Most of command-line commands completely reset selection in the current
       view.  However, there are several exceptions:

	 - `:invert s` most likely leaves some files selected;

	 - :view command;

	 - :normal command (when it doesn't leave command-line mode);

	 - :if	and :else commands don't affect selection on successful execu-
	   tion.

       '|' can be used to separate commands, so you can give multiple commands
       in one line.  If you want to use '|' in an argument,  precede  it  with
       '\'.

       These  commands	see  '|' as part of their arguments even when it's es-
       caped:

	   :[range]!
	   :amap
	   :anoremap
	   :autocmd
	   :cabbrev
	   :cmap
	   :cnoreabbrev
	   :cnoremap
	   :command
	   :dmap
	   :dnoremap
	   :filetype
	   :fileviewer
	   :filextype
	   :keepsel
	   :map
	   :mmap
	   :mnoremap
	   :nmap
	   :nnoremap
	   :noremap
	   :normal
	   :qmap
	   :qnoremap
	   :vmap
	   :vnoremap
	   :wincmd
	   :windo
	   :wingo
	   :winrun

       To be able to use another command after one of these, wrap it with  the
       :execute command.  An example:

	 if filetype('.') == 'reg' | execute '!!echo regular file' | endif

       :[count]

       :number
	      move to the file number.
	      :12 would move to the 12th file in the list.
	      :0 move to the top of the list.
	      :$ move to the bottom of the list.

       :[count]command
	      The   only  builtin  :[count]command  are	 :[count]d[elete]  and
	      :[count]y[ank].

       :d3    would delete three files starting at the current	file  position
	      moving down.

       :3d    would delete one file at the third line in the list.

       :command [args]

       :[range]!program
	      execute command via shell.  Accepts macros.

       :[range]!command &

       same  as	 above,	 but the command is run in the background using vifm's
       means.

       Programs that write to stderr create error dialogs  showing  errors  of
       the command.

       Note the space before ampersand symbol, if you omit it, command will be
       run in the background using job control of your shell.

       Accepts macros.

						:!!

       :[range]!!command
	      same as :!, but pauses before returning.

       :!!    repeat the last command.

						:alink

       :[range]alink[!?]
	      create absolute symbolic links to files in directory of inactive
	      view.   With  "?"	 prompts for destination file names in an edi-
	      tor.  "!" forces overwrite.

       :[range]alink[!] path
	      create absolute symbolic links to files in  directory  specified
	      by  the  path  (absolute	or  relative  to directory of inactive
	      view).

       :[range]alink[!] name1 name2...
	      create absolute symbolic links of files in  directory  of	 other
	      view  giving  each next link a corresponding name from the argu-
	      ment list.

       :[range]alink[!?] -skip ...
	      see "-skip parameter" section below.

						:apropos

       :apropos keyword...
	      create a menu of items returned by the apropos command.  Select-
	      ing an item in the menu opens corresponding man  page.   By  de-
	      fault  the  command  relies  on  the external "apropos" utility,
	      which can be customized by altering value	 of  the  'aproposprg'
	      option.  See "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

						:autocmd

       :au[tocmd] {event} {pat} {cmd}
	      register autocommand for the {event}, which can be:
		- DirEnter - triggered after directory is changed
	      Event name is case insensitive.

	      {pat}  is	 a  comma-separated  list  of modified globs patterns,
	      which can contain tilde or environment variables.	 All paths use
	      slash ('/') as directory separator.  The pattern can start  with
	      a	 '!',  which negates it.  Patterns that do not contain slashes
	      are matched against the last item of the path only  (e.g.	 "dir"
	      in  "/path/dir").	  Literal comma can be entered by doubling it.
	      Two modifications to globs matching are as follows:
		- *  - never matches a slash (i.e., can signify single	direc-
	      tory level)
		-  **  -  matches any character (i.e., can match path of arbi-
	      trary depth)

	      {cmd} is a :command or several of them separated with '|'.

	      Examples of patterns:
		- conf.d      - matches conf.d directory anywhere
		- *.d	      - matches directories ending with ".d" anywhere
		- **.git      - matches something.git, but not .git anywhere
		- **/.git/**  - matches /path/.git/objects, but not /path/.git
		- **/.git/**/ - matches /path/.git/ only (because of  trailing
	      slash)
		-  /etc/*	-  matches  /etc/conf.d/,  /etc/X11,  but  not
	      /etc/X11/fs
		- /etc/**/*.d - matches /etc/conf.d, /etc/X11/conf.d, etc.
		- /etc/**/*   - matches /etc/ itself and any file below it
		- /etc/**/**  - matches /etc/ itself and any file below it

       :au[tocmd] [{event}] [{pat}]
	      list those autocommands that match given event-pattern  combina-
	      tion.
	      {event}  and  {pat} can be omitted to list all autocommands.  To
	      list any autocommands for specific pattern one can use *	place-
	      holder in place of {event}.

       :au[tocmd]! [{event}] [{pat}]
	      remove  autocommands that match given event-pattern combination.
	      Syntax is the same as for listing above.

       :apropos
	      repeat last :apropos command.

						:bmark

       :bmark tag1 [tag2 [tag3...]]
	      bookmark current directory with specified tags.

       :bmark! path tag1 [tag2 [tag3...]]
	      same as :bmark, but allows bookmarking specific path instead  of
	      current  directory.  This is for use in vifmrc and for bookmark-
	      ing files.

	      Path can contain macros that expand to single path (%c, %C,  %d,
	      %D) or those that can expand to multiple paths, but contain only
	      one  (%f, %F, %rx).  The latter is done for convenience on using
	      the command interactively.  Complex macros that  include	spaces
	      (e.g. "%c:gs/ /_") should be escaped.

						:bmarks

       :bmarks
	      display all bookmarks in a menu.

       :bmarks [tag1 [tag2...]]
	      display  menu  of	 bookmarks  that  include all of the specified
	      tags.  See "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

						:bmgo

       :bmgo [tag1 [tag2...]]
	      when there are more than one match acts  exactly	like  :bmarks,
	      otherwise	 navigates  to	single match immediately (and fails if
	      there is no match).

						:cabbrev

       :ca[bbrev]
	      display menu of command-line mode abbreviations.	See "Menus and
	      dialogs" section for controls.

       :ca[bbrev] lhs-prefix
	      display command-line mode	 abbreviations	which  left-hand  side
	      starts with specified prefix.

       :ca[bbrev] lhs rhs
	      register	new  or	 overwrites existing abbreviation for command-
	      line mode.  rhs can contain spaces and any special sequences ac-
	      cepted in rhs of mappings (see "Mappings" section	 below).   Ab-
	      breviations are expanded non-recursively.

						:call

       :cal[l] {function}([{expr1}, ...])
	      invoke a {function} discarding its return value.
	      Unlike in Vim, a call expression followed by trailing characters
	      is not invoked.

						:chistory

       :chi[story]
	      display  menu  of	 saved menus.  See "Menus and dialogs" section
	      for controls, also see "Menus history" section.

						:cnoreabbrev

       :cnorea[bbrev]
	      display menu of command-line mode abbreviations.	See "Menus and
	      dialogs" section for controls.

       :cnorea[bbrev] lhs-prefix
	      display command-line mode	 abbreviations	which  left-hand  side
	      starts with specified prefix.

       :cnorea[bbrev] lhs rhs
	      same  as :cabbrev, but mappings in rhs are ignored during expan-
	      sion.

						:cd

       :cd or :cd ~ or :cd $HOME
	      change to home directory.

       :cd -  go to the last visited directory.

       :cd ~/dir
	      change directory to ~/dir.

       :cd /curr/dir /other/dir
	      change directory of the current pane to /curr/dir and  directory
	      of  the other pane to /other/dir.	 Relative paths are assumed to
	      be relative to directory of current view.	 Command won't fail if
	      one of directories is invalid.  All forms of the command	accept
	      macros.

       :cd! /dir
	      same as :cd /dir /dir.

						:cds

       :cds[!] pattern string
	      navigate to path obtained by substituting first match in current
	      path.   Arguments	 can include slashes, but starting first argu-
	      ment with a separator will activate below form of	 the  command.
	      Specifying "!"  changes directory of both panes.

       Available flags:

	 - i  -	 ignore case (the 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase' options are not
	   used)

	 - I - don't ignore case (the 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase' options are
	   not used)

       :cds[!]/pattern/string/[flags]
	      same as above, but with :substitute-like syntax.	Other punctua-
	      tion characters can be used as separators.

						:change

       :c[hange]
	      show a dialog to alter properties of files.

						:chmod

       :[range]chmod
	      display file attributes (permission on *nix  and	properties  on
	      Windows) change dialog.

       :[range]chmod[!] arg...
	      only for *nix
	      change permissions for files.  See `man 1 chmod` for arg format.
	      "!" means set permissions recursively.

						:chown

       :[range]chown
	      only for *nix
	      same as co key in normal mode.

       :[range]chown [user][:][group]
	      only for *nix
	      change owner and/or group of files.  Operates on directories re-
	      cursively.

						:clone

       :[range]clone[!?]
	      clones  files  in current directory.  With "?" vifm will open vi
	      to edit file names.  "!" forces overwrite.  Macros are expanded.

       :[range]clone[!] path
	      clones files to directory specified with the path	 (absolute  or
	      relative	to  current directory).	 "!" forces overwrite.	Macros
	      are expanded.

       :[range]clone[!] name1 name2...
	      clones files in current directory giving each next clone a  cor-
	      responding  name	from the argument list.	 "!" forces overwrite.
	      Macros are expanded.

						:colorscheme

       :colo[rscheme]?
	      print current color scheme name on the status bar.

       :colo[rscheme]
	      display a menu with a list of available color schemes.  You  can
	      choose primary color scheme here.	 It is used for view if no di-
	      rectory  specific colorscheme fits current path.	It's also used
	      to set border color (except view titles) and colors in menus and
	      dialogs.	See "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

       :colo[rscheme] color_scheme_name
	      change primary color scheme to color_scheme_name.	  In  case  of
	      errors  (e.g.  some colors are not supported by terminal) either
	      nothing is changed or color scheme is reset to builtin colors to
	      ensure that TUI is left in a usable state.

       :colo[rscheme] color_scheme_name directory
	      associate directory with the color scheme.  The directory	 argu-
	      ment  can	 be either absolute or relative path when :colorscheme
	      command is executed from command line, but mandatory  should  be
	      an  absolute path when the command is executed in scripts loaded
	      at startup (until vifm is completely loaded).

       :colo[rscheme] color_scheme_name color_scheme_name...
	      loads the first color scheme in the order given that exists  and
	      is  supported by the terminal.  If none matches, current one re-
	      mains unchanged.	For example:

		" use a separate color scheme for panes which are inside FUSE mounts
		execute 'colorscheme in-fuse' &fusehome

						:comclear

       :comc[lear]
	      remove all user defined commands.

						:command

       :com[mand]
	      display a menu of user commands.	See "Menus and	dialogs"  sec-
	      tion for controls.

       :com[mand] prefix
	      display user defined commands that start with the prefix.

       :com[mand] name action[ &]
	      set or redefine a user command.
	      Use  :com[mand]!	to  overwrite  a previously set command of the
	      same name.  Builtin commands can't be redefined.
	      User commands must start with an upper  or  lower	 case  letter.
	      Command  name  can't contain special symbols except for a single
	      trailing '?' or '!'.  Numbers are	 allowed  provided  that  they
	      don't  cause parsing ambiguity (no command name prefix that pre-
	      cedes a digit can match an existing  command  unless  it	has  a
	      digit in the same place), for example:
		" good
		:command mp3 command
		" good
		:command mp4 command
		:command mp3! command
		:command mp4? command
		" bad
		:command mp command
		:command mp44 command
		" good
		:command mp4c command

	      User  commands are run in a shell by default (see below for syn-
	      tax of other options).  To run a command in the  background  you
	      must  mark  it  as a background command by adding " &" after the
	      command's action (e.g., `:com rm rm %f &`).
	      User commands of all kinds have macros expanded  in  them.   See
	      "Command macros" section for more information.

       :com[mand] name /pattern
	      set search pattern.

       :com[mand] name =pattern
	      set local filter value.

       :com[mand] name filter{:filter args}
	      set file name filter (see :filter command description).  For ex-
	      ample:

		" display only audio files
		:command onlyaudio filter/.+.\(mp3|wav|mp3|flac|ogg|m4a|wma|ape\)$/i
		" display everything except audio files
		:command noaudio filter!/.+.\(mp3|wav|mp3|flac|ogg|m4a|wma|ape\)$/i

       :com[mand] name :commands
	      set  kind	 of  an alias for internal commands (like in a shell).
	      Passes range given to alias to an aliased	 command,  so  running
	      :%cp after
		:command cp :copy %a
	      equals
		:%copy

						:compare

       :compare [byname | bysize | bycontents |
		 listall | listunique | listdups |
		 ofboth | ofone |
		 groupids | grouppaths |
		 skipempty | withicase | withrcase |
		  showidentical	 |  showdifferent  | showuniqueleft | showuni-
	      queright]...
	      compare files in one or two views according  to  the  arguments.
	      The default is "bycontents listall ofboth grouppaths showidenti-
	      cal showdifferent showuniqueleft showuniqueright".  See "Compare
	      views"  section below for details.  Diff structure is incompati-
	      ble with alternative representations, so values of 'lsview'  and
	      'millerview' options are ignored.

       :compare! (showidentical | showdifferent | showuniqueleft |
		   showuniqueright)...	 this  invocation form works only when
	      compare view is active and results in redoing  of	 the  previous
	      :compare with toggled state of the passed in options.

						:copen

       :cope[n]
	      reopens  the  last  visible menu that has navigation to files by
	      default, if any.	See also "Menus history" section.

						:copy

       :[range]co[py][!?][ &]
	      copy files to directory of other view.   With  "?"  prompts  for
	      destination file names in an editor.  "!" forces overwrite.

       :[range]co[py][!] path[ &]
	      copy  files  to  directory  specified with the path (absolute or
	      relative to directory of other view).  "!" forces overwrite.

       :[range]co[py][!] name1 name2...[ &]
	      copy files to directory of other view giving each	 next  file  a
	      corresponding name from the argument list.  "!" forces overwrite

       :[range]co[py][!?] -skip ...[ &]
	      see "-skip parameter" below.

       Also see "File copying" section below.

						:cquit

       :cq[uit][!]
	      same   as	  :quit,   but	also  aborts  directory	 choosing  via
	      --choose-dir (empties output file)  and  returns	non-zero  exit
	      code.

						:cunabbrev

       :cuna[bbrev] lhs
	      unregister command-line mode abbreviation by its lhs.

       :cuna[bbrev] rhs
	      unregister  command-line	mode  abbreviation by its rhs, so that
	      abbreviation could be removed even after expansion.

						:delbmarks

       :delbmarks
	      remove bookmarks from current directory.

       :delbmarks tag1 [tag2 [tag3...]]
	      remove set of bookmarks that include all of the specified tags.

       :delbmarks!
	      remove all bookmarks.

       :delbmarks! path1 [path2 [path3...]]
	      remove bookmarks of listed paths.

						:delcommand

       :delc[ommand] user_command
	      remove user defined command named user_command.

						:delete

       :[range]d[elete][!][ &]
	      delete selected file  or	files.	 "!"  means  complete  removal
	      (omitting trash).

       :[range]d[elete][!] [reg] [count][ &]
	      delete selected or [count] files to the reg register.  "!" means
	      complete removal (omitting trash).

						:delmarks

       :delm[arks]!
	      delete all marks.

       :delm[arks] marks ...
	      delete  specified	 marks,	 each  argument is treated as a set of
	      marks.

						:delsession

       :delsession
	      delete specified session if it was stored previously.   Deleting
	      current session doesn't detach it.

						:display

       :di[splay]
	      display menu with registers content.

       :di[splay] list ...
	      display  the  contents  of the numbered and named registers that
	      are mentioned in list (for example "az to display "", "a and  "z
	      content).

						:dirs

       :dirs  display directory stack in a menu.  See "Menus and dialogs" sec-
	      tion for controls.

						:echo

       :ec[ho] [<expr>...]
	      evaluate	each  argument	as an expression and output them sepa-
	      rated with a space.  See help on :let command for	 a  definition
	      of <expr>.

						:edit

       :[range]e[dit] [file...]
	      open  selected or passed file(s) in editor.  Macros and environ-
	      ment variables are expanded.

						:else

       :el[se]
	      execute commands until next matching :endif if all other	condi-
	      tions didn't match.  See also help on :if and :endif commands.

						:elseif

       :elsei[f] {expr1}
	      execute commands until next matching :elseif, :else or :endif if
	      conditions  of  previous :if and :elseif branches were evaluated
	      to zero.	See also help on :if and :endif commands.

						:empty

       :empty permanently remove files from all existing non-empty  trash  di-
	      rectories (see "Trash directory" section below).	Trash directo-
	      ries  which are specified via %r and/or %u also get deleted com-
	      pletely.	Also remove all operations from undolist that have  no
	      sense  after  :empty  and remove all records about files located
	      inside directories from all registers.  Removal is performed  as
	      background  task	with  undetermined  amount  of work and can be
	      checked via :jobs menu.

						:endif

       :en[dif]
	      end conditional block.  See also help on :if and :else commands.

						:execute

       :exe[cute] [<expr>...]
	      evaluate each argument as an expression and join	results	 sepa-
	      rated  by	 a space to get a single string which is then executed
	      as a command-line command.  See help on :let command for a defi-
	      nition of <expr>.

						:exit

       :exi[t][!]
	      same as :quit.

						:file

       :f[ile][ &]
	      display menu of programs set for the file type  of  the  current
	      file.   "	 &"  forces  running associated program in background.
	      See "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

       :f[ile] arg[ &]
	      run associated command that begins with the arg skipping opening
	      menu.  " &" forces running associated program in background.

						:filetype

       :filet[ype] pattern-list [{descr}]def_prog[ &],[{descr}]prog2[ &],...
	      associate given program list to each of the  patterns.   Associ-
	      ated  program  (command) is used by handlers of l and Enter keys
	      (and also in the :file menu).  If you need to insert comma  into
	      command  just  double it (",,").	Space followed by an ampersand
	      as two last characters of a command means running of the command
	      in the background.  Optional description can be  given  to  each
	      command  to  ease	 understanding	of what command will do in the
	      :file menu.  Vifm will try the rest of the programs for an asso-
	      ciation when  the	 default  isn't	 found.	  When	program	 entry
	      doesn't  contain any of vifm macros, name of current file is ap-
	      pended as if program entry ended with %c macro on *nix  and  %"c
	      on  Windows.   On	 Windows path to executables containing spaces
	      can (and should be for correct work with such paths)  be	double
	      quoted.  See "Patterns" section below for pattern definition and
	      "Selection" section for how selection is handled.	 See also "Au-
	      tomatic  FUSE  mounts"  section below.  Example for zip archives
	      and several actions:

		filetype *.zip,*.jar,*.war,*.ear
		       \ {Mount with fuse-zip}
		       \ FUSE_MOUNT|fuse-zip %SOURCE_FILE %DESTINATION_DIR,
		       \ {View contents}
		       \ zip -sf %c | less,
		       \ {Extract here}
		       \ tar -xf %c,

	      Note that on OS X when `open` is used to call an	app,  vifm  is
	      unable  to  check whether that app is actually available.	 So if
	      automatic skipping of programs that aren't there	is  desirable,
	      `open` should be replaced with an actual command.

       :filet[ype] filename
	      list  (in	 menu  mode)  currently registered patterns that match
	      specified file name.  Same as ":filextype filename".

						:filextype

       :filex[type] pattern-list [{ description }] def_program,program2,...
	      same as :filetype, but this command is ignored if not running in
	      X.  In X :filextype is equal to :filetype.  See "Patterns"  sec-
	      tion  below  for	pattern definition and "Selection" section for
	      how selection is handled.	 See also "Automatic FUSE mounts" sec-
	      tion below.

	      For example, consider the following settings  (the  order	 might
	      seem strange, but it's for the demonstration purpose):

		filetype *.html,*.htm
			\ {View in lynx}
			\ lynx
		filextype *.html,*.htm
			\ {Open with dwb}
			\ dwb %f %i &,
		filetype *.html,*.htm
			\ {View in links}
			\ links
		filextype *.html,*.htm
			\ {Open with firefox}
			\ firefox %f &,
			\ {Open with uzbl}
			\ uzbl-browser %f %i &,

	      If  you're using vifm inside a terminal emulator that is running
	      in graphical environment (when X is used on *nix; always on Win-
	      dows), vifm attempts to run application in this order:

	      1. lynx
	      2. dwb
	      3. links
	      4. firefox
	      5. uzbl

	      If there is no graphical environment  (checked  by  presence  of
	      non-empty	 $DISPLAY  or $WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable on
	      *nix; never happens on Windows), the list will look like:

	      1. lynx
	      2. links

	      Just as if all :filextype commands were not there.

	      The purpose of such differentiation is to allow comfortable  use
	      of vifm with same settings in desktop environment/through remote
	      connection (SSH)/in native console.

	      Note  that  on OS X $DISPLAY isn't defined unless you define it,
	      so :filextype should be used only if you set  $DISPLAY  in  some
	      way.

       :filext[ype] filename
	      list  (in	 menu  mode)  currently registered patterns that match
	      specified file name.  Same as ":filetype filename".

						:fileviewer

       :filev[iewer] pattern-list command1,command2,...
	      register specified list of commands as viewers for each  of  the
	      patterns.	 Viewer is a command which output is captured and dis-
	      played in one of the panes of vifm after pressing "e" or running
	      :view  command.	When  the  command doesn't contain any of vifm
	      macros, name of current file is appended	as  if	command	 ended
	      with  %c	macro.	Comma escaping and missing commands processing
	      rules as for :filetype apply to this  command.   See  "Patterns"
	      section below for pattern definition.  Supports Lua handlers.

	      Example for zip archives:

		fileviewer *.zip,*.jar,*.war,*.ear zip -sf %c, echo "No zip to preview:"

       :filev[iewer] filename
	      list  (in	 menu  mode)  currently registered patterns that match
	      specified filename.

						:filter

       :filter[!] {pattern}
	      filter files matching the pattern	 out  of  directory  listings.
	      '!'  controls  state  of	filter inversion after updating filter
	      value (see also 'cpoptions'  description).   Filter  is  matched
	      case sensitively on *nix and case insensitively on Windows.  See
	      "File Filters" and "Patterns" sections.

	      Example:

		" filter all files ending in .o from the filelist.
		:filter /.o$/


       :filter[!] {empty-pattern}
	      same as above, but use last search pattern as pattern value.

	      Example:

		:filter //I


       :filter
	      reset filter (set it to an empty string) and show all files.

       :filter!
	      same as :invert.

       :filter?
	      show information on local, name and auto filters.

						:find

       :[range]fin[d] pattern
	      display results of find command in the menu.  Searches among se-
	      lected  files  if	 any.  Accepts macros.	By default the command
	      relies on the external "find" utility, which can	be  customized
	      by altering value of the 'findprg' option.

       :[range]fin[d] -opt...
	      same  as	:find  above,  but  user  defines  all find arguments.
	      Searches among selected files if any.

       :[range]fin[d] path -opt...
	      same as :find above, but user defines all find  arguments.   Ig-
	      nores selection and range.

       :[range]fin[d]
	      repeat last :find command.

						:finish

       :fini[sh]
	      stop  sourcing a script. Can only be used in a vifm script file.
	      This is a quick way to skip the rest of the file.

						:goto

       :go[to]
	      change directory if necessary and put specified path  under  the
	      cursor.	The path should be existing non-root path.  Macros and
	      environment variables are expanded.

						:grep

       :[range]gr[ep][!] pattern
	      will show results of grep command in the menu.  Add "!"  to  re-
	      quest inversion of search (look for lines that do not match pat-
	      tern).  Searches among selected files if any and no range given.
	      Ignores  binary files by default.	 By default the command relies
	      on the external "grep" utility, which can be customized  by  al-
	      tering value of the 'grepprg' option.

       :[range]gr[ep][!] -opt...
	      same  as :grep above, but user defines all grep arguments, which
	      are not escaped.	Searches among selected files if any.

       :[range]gr[ep][!]
	      repeat last :grep command.  "!" of this command inverts  "!"  in
	      repeated command.

						:help

       :h[elp]
	      show the help file.

       :h[elp] argument
	      is the same as using ':h argument' in vim.  Use vifm-<something>
	      to  get  help  on vifm (tab completion works).  This form of the
	      command doesn't work when 'vimhelp' option is off.

						:hideui

       :hideui
	      hide interface to show previous commands' output.

						:highlight

       :hi[ghlight]
	      display information about all highlight groups active at the mo-
	      ment.

       :hi[ghlight] clear
	      reset all highlighting to builtin defaults and removed all file-
	      name-specific rules.

       :hi[ghlight] clear ( {pat1,pat2,...} | /regexp/ )
	      remove specified rule.

       :hi[ghlight] ( group-name | column:name | {pat1,pat2,...} | /regexp/ )
	      display information on given highlight group or file  name  pat-
	      tern of color scheme used in the active view.

       :hi[ghlight] ( group-name | column:name | {pat1,pat2,...} | /reg-
       exp/[iI] ) cterm=style | ctermfg=color | ctermbg=color | gui=style |
       guifg=color | guibg=color
	      set style (cterm, gui), foreground (ctermfg, guifg) and/or back-
	      ground  (ctermbg,	 guibg)	 parameters of highlight group or file
	      name pattern for color scheme used in the active view.

       Group names, style values and color names are case  insensitive.	  Note
       that  this  doesn't include column names as that would make builtin and
       custom columns indistinguishable.

       Available group-name values:
	- Win - color of all windows (views, dialogs, menus) and default color
       for their content (e.g. regular files in views)
	- AuxWin - color of auxiliary areas of windows
	- OtherWin - color of inactive pane
	- Border - color of vertical parts of the border
	- TabLine - tab line color (for 'tabscope' set to "global")
	- TabLineSel - color of the tip of selected tab (regardless  of	 'tab-
       scope')
	- TopLine - top line color of the other pane
	- TopLineSel - top line color of the current pane
	- CmdLine - the command line/status bar color
	- ErrorMsg - color of error messages in the status bar
	- StatusLine - color of the line above the status bar
	- JobLine - color of job line that appears above the status line
	- WildBox - color of the wild menu
	- WildMenu - color of the selected wild menu item
	- SuggestBox - color of key suggestion box
	- CurrLine - line at cursor position in active view
	- OtherLine - line at cursor position in inactive view
	- OddLine - color of every second entry line in a pane
	- LineNr - line number column of views
	- Selected - color of selected files
	- Directory - color of directories
	- Link - color of symbolic links in the views
	- BrokenLink - color of broken symbolic links
	- HardLink - color of regular files with more than one hard link
	- Socket - color of sockets
	- Device - color of block and character devices
	- Executable - color of executable files
	- Fifo - color of fifo pipes
	-  CmpMismatch	- color of mismatched files in side-by-side comparison
       by path
	- CmpUnmatched - comparison file entry that has no pair in  the	 other
       pane
	-  CmpBlank  - entry placeholder in a compare view, paired with CmpUn-
       matched
	- User1..User20 - 20 colors which can  be  used	 via  %*  'statusline'
       macro

       Column  names  match  names  of columns of |vifm-'viewcolumns'| option,
       which in turn are based on values of |vifm-'sort'| and  custom  columns
       added  from  Lua.   Regardless  of the source, columns are specified as
       "column:{name}", for example:

	 highlight column:fileext ctermfg=red

       Available style values (some of them can be combined):
	- bold
	- underline
	- reverse or inverse
	- standout
	- italic (on unsupported systems becomes reverse)
	- combine - add attributes of current group to attributes of the  par-
       ent in group hierarchy (see below) instead of replacing them
	- none

       Available colors:
	- -1 or default or none - default or transparent
	- black	  and lightblack
	- red	  and lightred
	- green	  and lightgreen
	- yellow  and lightyellow
	- blue	  and lightblue
	- magenta and lightmagenta
	- cyan	  and lightcyan
	- white	  and lightwhite
	- 0-255 - corresponding colors from 256-color palette (for ctermfg and
       ctermbg)
	- #rrggbb - direct ("gui", "true", 24-bit) color in hex-notation, each
       of  the	three  components are in the range 0x00 to 0xff (for guifg and
       guibg)

       Light versions of colors are regular colors with bold attribute set au-
       tomatically in terminals that have less than 16 colors.	 So  order  of
       arguments  of  :highlight  command  is important and it's better to put
       "cterm" in front of others to prevent it	 from  overwriting  attributes
       set by "ctermfg" or "ctermbg" arguments.

       For  convenience of color scheme authors xterm-like names for 256 color
       palette	 is   also   supported.	   The	 mapping   is	 taken	  from
       http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Xterm256_color_names_for_console_Vim
       Duplicated entries were altered by adding an underscore followed by nu-
       merical suffix.

	 0 Black		  86 Aquamarine1	   172 Orange3
	 1 Red			  87 DarkSlateGray2	   173 LightSalmon3_2
	 2 Green		  88 DarkRed_2		   174 LightPink3
	 3 Yellow		  89 DeepPink4_2	   175 Pink3
	 4 Blue			  90 DarkMagenta	   176 Plum3
	 5 Magenta		  91 DarkMagenta_2	   177 Violet
	 6 Cyan			  92 DarkViolet		   178 Gold3_2
	 7 White		  93 Purple		   179 LightGoldenrod3
	 8 LightBlack		  94 Orange4_2		   180 Tan
	 9 LightRed		  95 LightPink4		   181 MistyRose3
	10 LightGreen		  96 Plum4		   182 Thistle3
	11 LightYellow		  97 MediumPurple3	   183 Plum2
	12 LightBlue		  98 MediumPurple3_2	   184 Yellow3_2
	13 LightMagenta		  99 SlateBlue1		   185 Khaki3
	14 LightCyan		 100 Yellow4		   186 LightGoldenrod2
	15 LightWhite		 101 Wheat4		   187 LightYellow3
	16 Grey0		 102 Grey53		   188 Grey84
	17 NavyBlue		 103 LightSlateGrey	   189 LightSteelBlue1
	18 DarkBlue		 104 MediumPurple	   190 Yellow2
	19 Blue3		 105 LightSlateBlue	   191 DarkOliveGreen1
	20  Blue3_2		   106	Yellow4_2	       192 DarkOliveG-
       reen1_2
	21 Blue1		 107 DarkOliveGreen3	   193 DarkSeaGreen1_2
	22 DarkGreen		 108 DarkSeaGreen	   194 Honeydew2
	23 DeepSkyBlue4		 109 LightSkyBlue3	   195 LightCyan1
	24 DeepSkyBlue4_2	 110 LightSkyBlue3_2	   196 Red1
	25 DeepSkyBlue4_3	 111 SkyBlue2		   197 DeepPink2
	26 DodgerBlue3		 112 Chartreuse2_2	   198 DeepPink1
	27 DodgerBlue2		 113 DarkOliveGreen3_2	   199 DeepPink1_2
	28 Green4		 114 PaleGreen3_2	   200 Magenta2_2
	29 SpringGreen4		 115 DarkSeaGreen3	   201 Magenta1
	30 Turquoise4		 116 DarkSlateGray3	   202 OrangeRed1
	31 DeepSkyBlue3		 117 SkyBlue1		   203 IndianRed1
	32 DeepSkyBlue3_2	 118 Chartreuse1	   204 IndianRed1_2
	33 DodgerBlue1		 119 LightGreen_2	   205 HotPink
	34 Green3		 120 LightGreen_3	   206 HotPink_2
	35 SpringGreen3		 121 PaleGreen1		   207 MediumOrchid1_2
	36 DarkCyan		 122 Aquamarine1_2	   208 DarkOrange
	37 LightSeaGreen	 123 DarkSlateGray1	   209 Salmon1
	38 DeepSkyBlue2		 124 Red3		   210 LightCoral
	39 DeepSkyBlue1		 125 DeepPink4_3	   211 PaleVioletRed1
	40 Green3_2		 126 MediumVioletRed	   212 Orchid2
	41 SpringGreen3_2	 127 Magenta3		   213 Orchid1
	42 SpringGreen2		 128 DarkViolet_2	   214 Orange1
	43 Cyan3		 129 Purple_2		   215 SandyBrown
	44 DarkTurquoise	 130 DarkOrange3	   216 LightSalmon1
	45 Turquoise2		 131 IndianRed		   217 LightPink1
	46 Green1		 132 HotPink3		   218 Pink1
	47 SpringGreen2_2	 133 MediumOrchid3	   219 Plum1
	48 SpringGreen1		 134 MediumOrchid	   220 Gold1
	49 MediumSpringGreen	 135  MediumPurple2	     221  LightGolden-
       rod2_2
	50  Cyan2		   136	DarkGoldenrod	      222 LightGolden-
       rod2_3
	51 Cyan1		 137 LightSalmon3	   223 NavajoWhite1
	52 DarkRed		 138 RosyBrown		   224 MistyRose1
	53 DeepPink4		 139 Grey63		   225 Thistle1
	54 Purple4		 140 MediumPurple2_2	   226 Yellow1
	55 Purple4_2		 141 MediumPurple1	   227 LightGoldenrod1
	56 Purple3		 142 Gold3		   228 Khaki1
	57 BlueViolet		 143 DarkKhaki		   229 Wheat1
	58 Orange4		 144 NavajoWhite3	   230 Cornsilk1
	59 Grey37		 145 Grey69		   231 Grey100
	60 MediumPurple4	 146 LightSteelBlue3	   232 Grey3
	61 SlateBlue3		 147 LightSteelBlue	   233 Grey7
	62 SlateBlue3_2		 148 Yellow3		   234 Grey11
	63 RoyalBlue1		 149 DarkOliveGreen3_3	   235 Grey15
	64 Chartreuse4		 150 DarkSeaGreen3_2	   236 Grey19
	65 DarkSeaGreen4	 151 DarkSeaGreen2	   237 Grey23
	66 PaleTurquoise4	 152 LightCyan3		   238 Grey27
	67 SteelBlue		 153 LightSkyBlue1	   239 Grey30
	68 SteelBlue3		 154 GreenYellow	   240 Grey35
	69 CornflowerBlue	 155 DarkOliveGreen2	   241 Grey39
	70 Chartreuse3		 156 PaleGreen1_2	   242 Grey42
	71 DarkSeaGreen4_2	 157 DarkSeaGreen2_2	   243 Grey46
	72 CadetBlue		 158 DarkSeaGreen1	   244 Grey50
	73 CadetBlue_2		 159 PaleTurquoise1	   245 Grey54
	74 SkyBlue3		 160 Red3_2		   246 Grey58
	75 SteelBlue1		 161 DeepPink3		   247 Grey62
	76 Chartreuse3_2	 162 DeepPink3_2	   248 Grey66
	77 PaleGreen3		 163 Magenta3_2		   249 Grey70
	78 SeaGreen3		 164 Magenta3_3		   250 Grey74
	79 Aquamarine3		 165 Magenta2		   251 Grey78
	80 MediumTurquoise	 166 DarkOrange3_2	   252 Grey82
	81 SteelBlue1_2		 167 IndianRed_2	   253 Grey85
	82 Chartreuse2		 168 HotPink3_2		   254 Grey89
	83 SeaGreen2		 169 HotPink2		   255 Grey93
	84 SeaGreen1		 170 Orchid
	85 SeaGreen1_2		 171 MediumOrchid1

       There are two colors (foreground and background) and only one bold  at-
       tribute.	 Thus single bold attribute affects both colors when "reverse"
       attribute  is  used  in vifm run inside terminal emulator.  At the same
       time linux native console can handle boldness of foreground  and	 back-
       ground  colors  independently, but for consistency with terminal emula-
       tors this is available only implicitly by using light versions of  col-
       ors.  This behaviour might be changed in the future.

       Although	 vifm  supports 256 colors in a sense they are supported by UI
       drawing library, whether you will be able to use all of them highly de-
       pends on your terminal.	To set up terminal properly,  make  sure  that
       $TERM  in the environment you run vifm is set to name of 256-color ter-
       minal  (on  *nixes  it  can  also  be  set  via	X   resources),	  e.g.
       xterm-256color.	One can find list of available terminal names by list-
       ing  /usr/lib/terminfo/.	  Number  of colors supported by terminal with
       current settings can be checked via "tput colors" command.

       In order to use 24-bit colors one needs a terminal that supports	 them,
       corresponding  terminfo	record	(probably  ends	 in  "-direct" like in
       "xterm-direct") and $TERM pointing to it.   When	 vifm  detects	direct
       color  support  "cterm*"	 values	 are  ignored for groups which have at
       least one of "gui*" values set, otherwise they are used after translat-
       ing via a builtin palette.

       Here is the hierarchy of highlight groups, which you need to  know  for
       using transparency:
	 JobLine
	 SuggestBox
	 StatusLine
	   WildBox
	     WildMenu
	   User1..User20
	 Border
	 CmdLine
	   ErrorMsg
	 Win
	   OtherWin
	     AuxWin
	       OddLine
		 Column highlights
		   File name specific highlights
		     Directory
		     Link
		     BrokenLink
		     HardLink
		     Socket
		     Device
		     Fifo
		     Executable
		       CmpMismatch
		       CmpUnmatched
		       CmpBlank
			 Selected
			   CurrLine
			     LineNr (in active pane)
			   OtherLine
			     LineNr (in inactive pane)
	 TopLine
	   TopLineSel
	     TabLineSel (for pane tabs)
	       User1..User20
	 TabLine
	   TabLineSel
	     User1..User20

       "none"  means  default terminal color for highlight groups at the first
       level of the hierarchy and transparency for all others.

       Here file name specific highlights mean those configured via globs ({})
       or regular expressions (//).  At most one of them is applied  per  file
       entry,  namely  the first that matches file name, hence order of :high-
       light commands might be important in certain cases.

						:history

       :his[tory]
	      display a menu with list of visited directories.	See "Menus and
	      dialogs" section for controls.

       :his[tory] x
	      x can be:
		d[ir]	  or . show directory history.
		c[md]	  or : show command line history.
		s[earch]  or / show search history and	search	forward	 on  l
	      key.
		f[search]  or  /  show	search history and search forward on l
	      key.
		b[search] or ? show search history and search  backward	 on  l
	      key.
		i[nput]	   or  @  show prompt history (e.g. on one file renam-
	      ing).
		fi[lter]  or = show local filter history (see  description  of
	      the "=" normal mode command).
		e[xprreg]	show expression register history (see descrip-
	      tion of Ctrl+R = in command-line mode).
		mc[md]	       show command-line history of menus.
	      See "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

						:histnext

       :histnext
	      same as <c-i>.  The main use case for this command  is  to  work
	      around  the  common pain point of <tab> and <c-i> being the same
	      ASCII character: one could alter the terminal emulator  settings
	      to  emit,	 for example, the `F1` keycode when Ctrl-I is pressed,
	      then `:noremap <f1> :histnext<cr>` in vifm, add "t" flag to  the
	      'cpoptions',  and	 thus have both <c-i> and <tab> working as ex-
	      pected.

						:histprev

       :histprev
	      same as <c-o>.

						:if

       :if {expr1}
	      start conditional	 block.	  Commands  are	 executed  until  next
	      matching	:elseif,  :else or :endif command if {expr1} evaluates
	      to non-zero, otherwise they are ignored.	An error during evalu-
	      ation of {expr1} results in not taking any conditional  branches
	      (not  even  an  else-branch).  See also help on :else and :endif
	      commands.

	      Example:

		if $TERM == 'screen.linux'
		    highlight CurrLine ctermfg=lightwhite ctermbg=lightblack
		elseif $TERM == 'tmux'
		    highlight CurrLine cterm=reverse ctermfg=black ctermbg=white
		else
		    highlight CurrLine cterm=bold,reverse ctermfg=black ctermbg=white
		endif

						:invert

       :invert [f]
	      invert file name filter.

       :invert? [f]
	      show current filter state.

       :invert s
	      invert selection.

       :invert o
	      invert sorting order of the primary sorting key.

       :invert? o
	      show sorting order of the primary sorting key.

						:jobs

       :jobs  display menu of current backgrounded processes.  See "Menus  and
	      dialogs" section for controls.

						:keepsel

       :keepsel [command...]
	      preserve	selection  during some :command by default.  Note that
	      this doesn't save and restore selection to preserve it no matter
	      what, but precludes its clearing at the end  of  a  command  and
	      thus won't help if selection is cleared explicitly during opera-
	      tion.

	      Example:

		:keepsel view

						:let

       :let $ENV_VAR = <expr>
	      set an environment variable.  Warning: setting environment vari-
	      able to an empty string on Windows removes it.

       :let $ENV_VAR .= <expr>
	      append value to environment variable.

       :let &[l:|g:]opt = <expr>
	      sets option value.

       :let &[l:|g:]opt .= <expr>
	      append value to string option.

       :let &[l:|g:]opt += <expr>
	      increasing option value, adding sub-values.

       :let &[l:|g:]opt -= <expr>
	      decreasing option value, removing sub-values.

       Where <expr> could be a single-quoted string, double-quoted string, an
       environment variable, function call or a concatanation of any of them
       in any order using the '.' operator.  Any whitespace is ignored.

						:locate

       :locate filename
	      use "locate" command to create a menu of filenames.  Selecting a
	      file  from the menu will reload the current file list in vifm to
	      show the selected file.  By default the command  relies  on  the
	      external "locate" utility (it's assumed that its database is al-
	      ready  built),  which can be customized by altering value of the
	      'locateprg' option.  See "Menus and dialogs"  section  for  con-
	      trols.

       :locate
	      repeat last :locate command.

						:ls

       :ls    lists windows of active terminal multiplexer (only when terminal
	      multiplexer  is  used).  This is achieved by issuing proper com-
	      mand for active terminal multiplexer, thus the list is not  han-
	      dled by vifm.

						:lstrash

       :lstrash
	      display a menu with list of files in trash.  Each element of the
	      list  is original path of a deleted file, thus the list can con-
	      tain duplicates.	See "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

						:mark

       :[range]ma[rk][?] x [/full/dir/path [filename]]
	      set mark x (a-zA-Z0-9) at /full/dir/path and filename.   By  de-
	      fault current file in current directory is used.	If no filename
	      was given and /full/dir/path is current directory, then the last
	      file  of	the  [range] is used.  Question mark stops the command
	      from overwriting an existing mark.  Macros and environment vari-
	      ables are expanded.

						:marks

       :marks create a pop-up menu of marks.  See "Menus and dialogs"  section
	      for controls.

       :marks list ...
	      display the contents of the marks that are mentioned in list.

						:media

       :media only for *nix
	      display  media management menu.  See "Menus and dialogs" section
	      for controls.  See also 'mediaprg' option.

						:messages

       :mes[sages]
	      shows previously given messages (up to 50).

						:mkdir

       :[line]mkdir[!] dir ...
	      create directories at specified paths.  The [line] can  be  used
	      to  pick node in a tree-view.  "!" means make parent directories
	      as needed.  Macros are expanded.

						:move

       :[range]m[ove][!?][ &]
	      move files to directory of other view.   With  "?"  prompts  for
	      destination file names in an editor.  "!" forces overwrite.

       :[range]m[ove][!] path[ &]
	      move  files  to  directory  specified with the path (absolute or
	      relative to directory of other view).  "!" forces overwrite.

       :[range]m[ove][!] name1 name2...[ &]
	      move files to directory of other view giving each	 next  file  a
	      corresponding  name  from	 the  argument list.  "!" forces over-
	      write.

       :[range]m[ove][!?] -skip ...[ &]
	      see "-skip parameter" section below.

						:nohlsearch

       :noh[lsearch]
	      clear selection in current pane.

						:normal

       :norm[al][!] commands
	      execute normal mode commands.  If "!" is used, user defined map-
	      pings are ignored.  Unfinished last command  is  aborted	as  if
	      <esc>  or	 <c-c>	was typed.  A ":" should be completed as well.
	      Commands can't start with a space, so put a count of 1 (one) be-
	      fore it.

						:only

       :on[ly]
	      switch to a one window view.

						:open

       :[range]o[pen]
	      open current file, selection or files in the range as  if	 Enter
	      was pressed.

						:plugin

       :plugin load
	      loads all plugins.  To be used in configuration file to manually
	      load  plugins  at	 an  earlier point.  The plugins can be loaded
	      only once, additional calls will do nothing.

       :plugin blacklist {plugin}
	      adds {plugin} to the list of plugins to be ignored.

       :plugin whitelist {plugin}
	      adds {plugin} to the list of plugins to be loaded while ignoring
	      all other plugins.  This list should normally be empty.

						:plugins

       :plugins
	      open plugins menu.  See "Menus and  dialogs"  section  for  con-
	      trols.

						:popd

       :popd  remove pane directories from stack.

						:pushd

       :pushd[!] /curr/dir [/other/dir]
	      add  pane	 directories  to  stack and process arguments like :cd
	      command.

       :pushd exchange the top two items of the directory stack.

						:put

       :[line]pu[t][!] [reg] [ &]
	      put files from specified register (" by  default)	 into  current
	      directory.   The [line] can be used to pick node in a tree-view.
	      "!" moves files "!" moves files from their original location in-
	      stead of copying them.  During this  operation  no  confirmation
	      dialogs will be shown, all checks are performed beforehand.

						:pwd

       :pw[d] show the present working directory.

						:qall

       :qa[ll][!]
	      exit  vifm (add ! to skip saving changes and checking for active
	      backgrounded commands).

						:quit

       :q[uit][!]
	      if there is more than one tab, close the current one,  otherwise
	      exit  vifm  (add	! to skip saving state and checking for active
	      backgrounded commands).

						:redraw

       :redr[aw]
	      redraw the screen immediately.

						:regedit

       :rege[dit] [{reg}]
	      edit register contents using external editor. If {reg} is	 omit-
	      ted,  unnamed  register will be edited by default.  Edited paths
	      are normalized (no extra `.`, `..`, `/`, etc.) and all  relative
	      paths  are  treated  as starting in the directory of the current
	      view.

						:registers

       :reg[isters]
	      display menu with registers content.

       :reg[isters] list ...
	      display the contents of the numbered and	named  registers  that
	      are  mentioned in list (for example "az to display "", "a and "z
	      content).

						:regular

       :regular

       switch to regular view leaving custom view.
						       :rename

       :[range]rename[!]
	      rename files by editing their names in an editor.	  "!"  renames
	      files  recursively  in  subdirectories.  See "External Renaming"
	      section.

       :[range]rename name1 name2...
	      rename each of selected files to a corresponding name.

						:restart

       :restart
	      free  a  lot  of	things	(histories,  commands,	etc.),	reread
	      vifminfo,	 vifmrc	 and  session  files  and run startup commands
	      passed in the argument list, thus	 losing	 all  unsaved  changes
	      (e.g.  recent  history  or  keys	mapped after starting this in-
	      stance).	Session that wasn't yet stored gets reset.

	      While many things get reset, some basic UI state and current lo-
	      cations are preserved, including tabs.

       :restart full
	      variation of :restart that makes no  attempt  to	preserve  any-
	      thing.

						:restore

       :[range]restore
	      restore  file  from trash directory, doesn't work outside one of
	      trash directories.  See "Trash directory" section below.

						:rlink

       :[range]rlink[!?]
	      create relative symbolic links to files in  directory  of	 other
	      view.  With "?" prompts for destination file names in an editor.
	      "!" forces overwrite.

       :[range]rlink[!] path
	      create  relative	symbolic links of files in directory specified
	      with the path (absolute or relative to directory of other view).
	      "!" forces overwrite.

       :[range]rlink[!] name1 name2...
	      create relative symbolic links of files in  directory  of	 other
	      view  giving  each next link a corresponding name from the argu-
	      ment list.  "!" forces overwrite.

       :[range]rlink[!?] -skip ...[ &]
	      see "-skip parameter" section below.

						:screen

       :screen
	      toggle whether to use the terminal multiplexer or not.
	      A terminal multiplexer uses pseudo terminals to  allow  multiple
	      windows  to be used in the console or in a single xterm.	Start-
	      ing vifm from  terminal  multiplexer  with  appropriate  support
	      turned  on  will	cause  vifm to open a new terminal multiplexer
	      window for each new file edited or program launched from vifm.
	      This requires screen version 3.9.9 or newer for  the  screen  -X
	      argument or tmux (1.8 version or newer is recommended).

       :screen!
	      enable integration with terminal multiplexers.

       :screen?
	      display  whether	integration  with terminal multiplexers is en-
	      abled.

       Note: the command is called screen for historical  reasons  (when  tmux
       wasn't  yet  supported) and might be changed in future releases, or get
       an alias.

						:select

       :[range]select
	      select files in the given range (current file  if	 no  range  is
	      given).

       :select {pattern}
	      select  files  that match specified pattern.  Possible {pattern}
	      forms are described in "Patterns" section below.	Trailing slash
	      for directories is taken into account, so `:select! */ |	invert
	      s` selects only files.

       :select //[iI]
	      same as item above, but reuses last search pattern.

       :select !{external command}
	      select  files from the list supplied by external command.	 Files
	      are matched by full paths, relative paths are converted  to  ab-
	      solute ones beforehand.

       :[range]select! [{pattern}]
	      same  as above, but resets previously selected items before pro-
	      ceeding.

						:session

       :session?
	      print name of the current session.

       :session
	      detach current session without saving it.	 Resets v:session.

       :session name
	      create or load and switch to a session with the specified	 name.
	      Name  can't  contain  slashes.   Session active at the moment is
	      saved before the switch.	Session is  also  automatically	 saved
	      when quitting the application in usual ways.  Sets v:session.

       :session -
	      switch  to a previous session if it still exists (wasn't removed
	      or detached from without saving).

						:set

       :se[t] display all options that differ from their default value.

       :se[t] all
	      display all options.

       :se[t] opt1=val1 opt2='val2' opt3="val3" ...
	      sets given options.  For local options both values are set.
	      You can use following syntax:
	       - for all options - option, option? and option&
	       - for boolean options - nooption, invoption and option!
	       - for integer options - option=x, option+=x and option-=x
	       - for string options - option=x and option+=x
	       - for string list options - option=x, option+=x, option-=x  and
	      option^=x
	       - for enumeration options - option=x, option+=x and option-=x
	       -  for  set  options  -	option=x, option+=x, option-=x and op-
	      tion^=x
	       - for charset options - option=x, option+=x, option-=x and  op-
	      tion^=x

	      the meaning:
	       - option - turn option on (for boolean) or print its value (for
	      all others)
	       - nooption - turn option off
	       - invoption - invert option state
	       - option! - invert option state
	       - option? - print option value
	       - option& - reset option to its default value
	       - option=x or option:x - set option to x
	       - option+=x - add/append x to option
	       - option-=x - remove (or subtract) x from option
	       - option^=x - toggle x presence among values of the option

	      Option  name  can	 be  prepended	and  appended by any number of
	      whitespace characters.

						:setglobal

       :setg[lobal]
	      display all global options that differ from their default value.

       :setg[lobal] all
	      display all global options.

       :setg[lobal] opt1=val1 opt2='val2' opt3="val3" ...
	      same as :set, but changes/prints only global options  or	global
	      values  of  local	 options.   Changes to the latter might be not
	      visible until directory is changed.

						:setlocal

       :setl[ocal]
	      display all local options that differ from their default value.

       :setl[ocal] all
	      display all local options.

       :setl[ocal] opt1=val1 opt2='val2' opt3="val3" ...
	      same as :set, but changes/prints only local values of local  op-
	      tions.

						:shell

       :sh[ell][!]
	      start  a	shell  in  current directory.  "!" suppresses spawning
	      dedicated window of terminal multiplexer for a shell.   To  make
	      vifm  adaptive  to  environment  it uses $SHELL if it's defined,
	      otherwise 'shell' value is used.


						:siblnext

       :[count]siblnext[!]

	      change directory to [count]th next sibling directory after  cur-
	      rent  path  using	 value	of global sort option of current pane.
	      "!" enables wrapping.

	      For example, say, you're at /boot and root listing  starts  like
	      this:

		  bin/
		  boot/
		  dev/
		  ...

	      Issuing :siblnext will navigate to /dev.


						:siblprev

       :[count]siblprev[!]
	      same as :siblnext, but in the opposite direction.

						:sort

       :sor[t]
	      display dialog with different sorting methods, where one can se-
	      lect  the	 primary  sorting  key.	 When 'viewcolumns' options is
	      empty and 'lsview' is off, changing  primary  sorting  key  will
	      also  affect  view  look (in particular the second column of the
	      view will be changed).  See "Menus and dialogs" section for con-
	      trols.

						:source

       :so[urce] file
	      read command-line commands from the file.

						:split

       :sp[lit]
	      switch to a two window horizontal view.

       :sp[lit]!
	      toggle horizontal window splitting.

       :sp[lit] path
	      splits the window horizontally to show  both  file  directories.
	      Also changes other pane to path (absolute or relative to current
	      directory of active pane).

						:stop

       :st[op]
	      suspend  vifm  (same  as pressing Ctrl-Z).  Does nothing if this
	      instance isn't running in a shell.  The command exists to	 allow
	      mapping to the action of Ctrl-Z.

						:substitute

       :[range]s[ubstitute]/pattern/string/[flags]
	      for each file in range replace a match of pattern with string.

       String  can  contain \0...\9 to link to capture groups (\0 - all match,
       \1 - first group, etc.).

       Pattern is stored in search history.

       Available flags:

	 - i - ignore case (the 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase' options  are  not
	   used)

	 - I - don't ignore case (the 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase' options are
	   not used)

	 - g - substitute all matches in each file name (each g toggles this)

       :[range]s[ubstitute]/pattern
	      substitute pattern with an empty string.

       :[range]s[ubstitute]//string/[flags]
	      use last pattern from search history.

       :[range]s[ubstitute]
	      repeat previous substitution command.

						:sync

       :sync [relative path]
	      change  the  other pane to the current pane directory or to some
	      path relative to the current directory.	Using  macros  is  al-
	      lowed.

       :sync! change the other pane to the current pane directory and synchro-
	      nize  cursor  position.  If current pane displays custom list of
	      files, position before entering it is used  (current  one	 might
	      not make any sense).


       :sync! [location | cursorpos | localopts | filters | filelist | tree |
       all]...
	      change  enumerated  properties of the other pane to match corre-
	      sponding properties of the current  pane.	  Arguments  have  the
	      following meanings:

		- location - current directory of the pane;

		- cursorpos - cursor position (doesn't make sense without "lo-
		  cation");

		- localopts - all local options;

		- filters - all filters;

		- filelist  -  list  of	 files for custom view (implies "loca-
		  tion");

		- tree - tree structure for tree view (implies "location");

		- all - all of the above.

						:tabclose

       :tabc[lose]
	      close current tab, unless it's the  only	one  open  at  current
	      scope.

						:tabmove

       :tabm[ove] [N]
	      without  the  argument  or with `$` as the argument, current tab
	      becomes the last tab.  With the argument, current tab  is	 moved
	      after  the tab with the specified number.	 Argument of `0` moves
	      current tab to the first position.

						:tabname

       :tabname [name]
	      set, update or reset (when no argument is provided) name of  the
	      current tab.

						:tabnew

       :tabnew [path]
	      create  new tab.	Accepts optional path for the new tab.	Macros
	      and environment variables are expanded.

						:tabnext

       :tabn[ext]
	      switch to the next tab (wrapping around).

       :tabn[ext] {n}
	      go to the tab number {n}.	 Tab numeration starts with 1.

						:tabonly

       :tabo[nly]
	      close all tabs but the current one.  Closes pane	tabs  only  at
	      the active side.

						:tabprevious

       :tabp[revious]
	      switch to the previous tab (wrapping around).

       :tabp[revious] {n}
	      go  to  the {n}-th previous tab.	Note that :tabnext handles its
	      argument differently.

						:touch

       :[line]touch file...
	      create files at specified paths.	Aborts on errors.  Doesn't up-
	      date time of existing files.  The [line] can  be	used  to  pick
	      node in a tree-view.  Macros are expanded.

						:tr

       :[range]tr/pattern/string/
	      for each file in range transliterate the characters which appear
	      in  pattern  to  the  corresponding  character  in string.  When
	      string is shorter than pattern, it's padded with its last	 char-
	      acter.

						:trashes

       :trashes
	      lists all valid trash directories in a menu.  Only non-empty and
	      writable	trash directories are shown.  This is exactly the list
	      of directories that are cleared when :empty command is executed.

       :trashes?
	      same as :trashes, but also displays size of  each	 trash	direc-
	      tory.

						:tree

       :tree  turn  pane  into	tree  view with current directory as its root.
	      The tree view is implemented on top of a custom view, but is au-
	      tomatically kept in sync with file system	 state	and  considers
	      all  the	filters.   Thus	 the structure corresponds to what one
	      would see on visiting the directories manually.	As  a  special
	      case  for	 trees	built  out of custom view file-system tracking
	      isn't performed.

	      To leave tree view go up from its root or use gh at any level of
	      the tree.	 Any command that changes directory will also  do,  in
	      particular, `:cd ..`.

	      Tree structure is incompatible with alternative representations,
	      so values of 'lsview' and 'millerview' options are ignored.

	      The "depth" argument specifies nesting level on which loading of
	      subdirectories won't happen (they will be folded).  Values start
	      at 1.

       :tree! toggle current view in and out of tree mode.

						:undolist

       :undol[ist]
	      display list of latest changes.  Use "!" to see actual commands.
	      See "Menus and dialogs" section for controls.

						:unlet

       :unl[et][!] {var}...
	      remove  one  or more environment (`$VAR`) or global (`g:global`)
	      variables.  Use "!" to omit displaying warnings  about  nonexis-
	      tent variables.

						:unselect

       :[range]unselect
	      unselect	files  in the given range (current file if no range is
	      given).

       :unselect {pattern}
	      unselect files that match specified pattern.  Possible {pattern}
	      forms are described in "Patterns" section below.	Trailing slash
	      for directories is taken into account, so `:unselect  */`	 unse-
	      lects directories.

       :unselect !{external command}
	      unselect	files  from  the  list	supplied  by external command.
	      Files are matched by full paths, relative paths are converted to
	      absolute ones beforehand.

       :unselect //[iI]
	      same as item above, but reuses last search pattern.

						:version

       :ve[rsion]
	      show menu with version information.

						:vifm

       :vifm  same as :version.

						:view

       :vie[w]
	      toggle on and off the quick file view (preview  of  file's  con-
	      tents).  See also 'quickview' option.

       :vie[w]!
	      turn on quick file view if it's off.

						:volumes

       :volumes
	      only for MS-Windows
	      display  menu  with volume list.	Hitting l (or Enter) key opens
	      appropriate volume in the current pane.  See "Menus and dialogs"
	      section for controls.

						:vsplit

       :vs[plit]
	      switch to a two window vertical view.

       :vs[plit]!
	      toggle window vertical splitting.

       :vs[plit] path
	      split the window vertically to show both file directories.   And
	      changes  other pane to path (absolute or relative to current di-
	      rectory of active pane).

						:wincmd

       :[count]winc[md] {arg}
	      same as running Ctrl-W [count] {arg}.

						:windo

       :windo [command...]
	      execute command for each pane (same as :winrun % command).

						:wingo

       :wingo {id} [{substr}]
	      navigate to a view by its id number.  The {substr} part is  used
	      for  completion (can be any number of words, only leading white-
	      space is removed).  The view will	 become	 the  current  one  by
	      switching	 to  the corresponding tab and pane.  Matching is case
	      sensitive substring search in view title	or  its	 full  current
	      path (with `~` expanded regardless of any settings).

       :wingo {substr}
	      this  form  navigates  to	 a view that is uniquely identified by
	      {substr} or errors.  The form will not be used if the first word
	      of {substr} is a valid number that starts with a digit (i.e., no
	      `+` or `-` in front).

						:winrun

       :winrun type [command...]
	      execute command for pane(s), which is determined by  type	 argu-
	      ment:
		- ^ - top-left pane
		- $ - bottom-right pane
		- % - all panes
		- . - current pane
		- , - other pane

						:write

       :w[rite]
	      write  current state to vifminfo and session files (if a session
	      is active).

						:wq

       :wq[!] same as :quit, but ! disables only  the  check  of  backgrounded
	      commands,	 while	state  of the application is always written.
	      :wqall

       :wqa[ll][!]
	      same as :qall, but ! disables only  the  check  of  backgrounded
	      commands, while state of the application is always written.

						:xall

       :xa[ll][!]
	      same as :qall.

						:xit

       :x[it][!]
	      same as :quit.

						:yank

       :[range]y[ank] [reg] [count]
	      will yank files to the reg register.

						:map lhs rhs

       :map lhs rhs
	      map lhs key sequence to rhs in normal and visual modes.

       :map! lhs rhs
	      map lhs key sequence to rhs in command line mode.


					:amap :cmap :dmap :mmap :nmap :qmap
       :vmap

       :amap lhs rhs
	      map lhs to rhs in navigation mode.

       :cm[ap] lhs rhs
	      map lhs to rhs in command line mode.

       :dm[ap] lhs rhs
	      map lhs to rhs in dialog modes.

       :mm[ap] lhs rhs
	      map lhs to rhs in menu mode.

       :nm[ap] lhs rhs
	      map lhs to rhs in normal mode.

       :qm[ap] lhs rhs
	      map lhs to rhs in view mode.

       :vm[ap] lhs rhs
	      map lhs to rhs in visual mode.


						:*map

       :amap  list all maps in navigation mode.

       :cm[ap]
	      list all maps in command line mode.

       :dm[ap]
	      list all maps in dialog modes.

       :mm[ap]
	      list all maps in menu mode.

       :nm[ap]
	      list all maps in normal mode.

       :qm[ap]
	      list all maps in view mode.

       :vm[ap]
	      list all maps in visual mode.

						:*map beginning

       :amap beginning
	      list all maps in navigation mode that start with the beginning.

       :cm[ap] beginning
	      list  all	 maps  in command line mode that start with the begin-
	      ning.

       :dm[ap] beginning
	      list all maps in dialog modes that start with the beginning.

       :mm[ap] beginning
	      list all maps in menu mode that start with the beginning.

       :nm[ap] beginning
	      list all maps in normal mode that start with the beginning.

       :qm[ap] beginning
	      list all maps in view mode that start with the beginning.

       :vm[ap] beginning
	      list all maps in visual mode that start with the beginning.

						:noremap

       :no[remap] lhs rhs
	      map the key sequence lhs to rhs for normal and visual modes, but
	      don't expand user mappings in rhs.

       :no[remap]! lhs rhs
	      map the key sequence lhs to rhs for command line mode, but don't
	      expand user mappings in rhs.

	    :anoremap :cnoremap :dnoremap :mnoremap :nnoremap :qnoremap
       :vnoremap

       :anoremap lhs rhs
	      map the key sequence lhs to rhs for navigation mode,  but	 don't
	      expand user mappings in rhs.

       :cno[remap] lhs rhs
	      map the key sequence lhs to rhs for command line mode, but don't
	      expand user mappings in rhs.

       :dn[oremap] lhs rhs
	      map  the key sequence lhs to rhs for dialog modes, but don't ex-
	      pand user mappings in rhs.

       :mn[oremap] lhs rhs
	      map the key sequence lhs to rhs for menu mode, but don't	expand
	      user mappings in rhs.

       :nn[oremap] lhs rhs
	      map  the	key sequence lhs to rhs for normal mode, but don't ex-
	      pand user mappings in rhs.

       :qn[oremap] lhs rhs
	      map the key sequence lhs to rhs for view mode, but don't	expand
	      user mappings in rhs.

       :vn[oremap] lhs rhs
	      map  the	key sequence lhs to rhs for visual mode, but don't ex-
	      pand user mappings in rhs.

						:unmap

       :unm[ap] lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from normal and visual modes.

       :unm[ap]! lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from command line mode.

			  :aunmap :cunmap :dunmap :munmap :nunmap :qunmap
       :vunmap

       :aunmap lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from navigation mode.

       :cu[nmap] lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from command line mode.

       :du[nmap] lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from dialog modes.

       :mu[nmap] lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from menu mode.

       :nun[map] lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from normal mode.

       :qun[map] lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from view mode.

       :vu[nmap] lhs
	      remove user mapping of lhs from visual mode.

Ranges
       The ranges implemented include:
	 2,3 - from second to third file in the list (including it)
	 % - the entire directory.
	 . - the current position in the filelist.
	 $ - the end of the filelist.
	 't - the mark position t.

       Examples:

	 :%delete

       would delete all files in the directory.

	 :2,4delete

       would delete the files in the list positions 2 through 4.

	 :.,$delete

       would delete the files from the current position	 to  the  end  of  the
       filelist.

	 :3delete4

       would delete the files in the list positions 3, 4, 5, 6.

       If a backward range is given :4,2delete - an query message is given and
       user can chose what to do next.

       The builtin commands that accept a range are :d[elete] and :y[ank].

:command parameters
       Some  of	 the  command-line  commands  accept parameters in the form of
       `-paramname`.  Arguments of such commands can be split into two groups:
       parameters and positional arguments.  Items from the two groups	cannot
       be interleaved and parameters always come first.	 List of parameters is
       terminated  implicitly  by the first argument that doesn't start with a
       dash ("-") or explicitly via "--" separator (needs to be a separate ar-
       gument), which is just discarded.  These strict rules  allow  arbitrary
       positional arguments, such as file names that start with a dash.


       -skip parameter
	      This  parameter  makes :copy, :move, :alink and :rlink automati-
	      cally skip source files that already exist  at  the  destination
	      rather than refusing to perform the operation.

Command macros
       The command macros may be used in user commands.

       %a     User  arguments.	 When  user arguments contain macros, they are
	      expanded before performing substitution of %a.

       %c %"c The current file under the cursor.

       %C %"C The current file under the cursor in the other directory.

       %f %"f All of the selected files or the current file, but  see  "Selec-
	      tion" section below.

       %F %"F Same as %f, %"f, but for the inactive pane.

       %l %"l List  of selected files.	Unlike %f from above, this is only for
	      explicit selection (i.e., not via a range) and is	 empty	if  no
	      files are selected.

       %L %"L Same as %l, %"l, but for the inactive pane.

       %b %"b Same as %f %F.

       %d %"d Full path to current directory.

       %D %"D Full path to other file list directory.

       %rx %"rx
	      Full  paths  to  files  in the register {x}.  In case of invalid
	      symbol in place of {x}, it's processed with the rest of the line
	      and default register is used.

       %m     Show command output in a menu.

       %M     Same as %m, but l (or Enter) key is handled like for :locate and
	      :find commands.

       %u     Process command output as list of paths and compose custom  view
	      out of it.

       %U     Same  as %u, but implies less list updates inside vifm, which is
	      absence of sorting at the moment.

       %Iu    Same as %u, but gives up terminal before running	external  com-
	      mand.

       %IU    Same  as	%U, but gives up terminal before running external com-
	      mand.

       %S     Show command output in the status bar.

       %q     Redirect command output to quick view,  which  is	 activated  if
	      disabled.

       %s     Execute  command in horizontally split window of active terminal
	      multiplexer (ignored if not running inside one).

       %v     Same as %s, but splits vertically.

       %n     Forbid use of terminal multiplexer to run the command.

       %N     Do not detach viewer from	 terminal  session  (keeps  `/dev/tty`
	      available)  or  process  group  (keeps the command in the set of
	      foreground clients of the terminal).  This flag is a  workaround
	      for  rare	 commands/terminals which might need a working TTY for
	      :fileviewer command to operate correctly and has no effect  oth-
	      erwise.

       %i     Run in background and suppress error dialogs, but collect errors
	      internally  for  viewing via :jobs menu.	This macro doesn't de-
	      tach the command from terminal session (`/dev/tty`) on its  own,
	      add " &" to leave the command without access to the terminal.

       %Pl    Pipe list of files to standard input of a command.

       %Pz    Same as %Pl, but separates paths by null ('\0') character.

       %pc    Marks the end of the main command and the beginning of the clear
	      command  for graphical preview, which is invoked on closing pre-
	      view of a file.

       %pd    Marks a preview command as one that directly  communicates  with
	      the  terminal.   Beware that this is for things like sixel which
	      are self-contained sequences that depend only on current	cursor
	      position, using this with anything else is likely to mangle ter-
	      minal state.

       %pu    Uncached	preview.   Intended  to be used for commands that just
	      send file path somewhere for preview.

       The following dimensions and coordinates are in characters:

       %px    x coordinate of top-left corner of preview area.

       %py    y coordinate of top-left corner of preview area.

       %pw    width of preview area.

       %ph    height of preview area.


       Use %% if you need to put a percent sign in your command.

       Note that %i, %Iu, %IU, %m, %M, %n, %q, %s, %S, %u, %U  and  %v	macros
       are  mutually exclusive.	 Only the last one of them in the command will
       take effect.

       Note that %Pl and %Pz are mutually exclusive.  Only  the	 last  one  of
       them in the command will take effect.

       Note  that a previewer containing %pd is considered a pass-through pre-
       viewer, otherwise a previewer containing both %px and %py is considered
       to be a graphical previewer, the rest are treated as text previewers.

       You can use file name modifiers after %c, %C, %f, %F,  %b,  %d  and  %D
       macros.	Supported modifiers are:

	 - :p		- full path

	 - :u		  -   UNC   name   of	path   (e.g.   "\\server"   in
	   "\\server\share"), Windows only.  Expands to current computer  name
	   for not UNC paths.

	 - :~		- relative to the home directory

	 - :.		- relative to current directory

	 - :h		- head of the file name

	 - :t		- tail of the file name

	 - :r		- root of the file name (without last extension)

	 - :e		- extension of the file name (last one)

	 - :s?pat?sub?	 -  substitute	the  first occurrence of pat with sub.
	   You can use any character for '?', but it must not occur in pat  or
	   sub.

	 - :gs?pat?sub? - like :s, but substitutes all occurrences of pat with
	   sub.

       See ':h filename-modifiers' in Vim's documentation for the detailed de-
       scription.

       Using  %x means expand corresponding macro escaping all characters that
       have special meaning.  And %"x means using of double quotes and	escape
       only  backslash	and  double  quote characters, which is more useful on
       Windows systems.

       Position and quantity (if there is any) of %m, %M, %S or %s  macros  in
       the command is unimportant.  All their occurrences are removed from the
       resulting command.

       %c  and	%f  macros are expanded to relative paths, while %C and %F are
       always expanded to full paths.  The same applies to %f and  %F  implic-
       itly used by %b.

       :com move mv %f %D
	      set  the	:move command to move all of the files selected in the
	      current directory to the other directory.

       The %a macro is replaced with any arguments given to an alias command.
       All arguments are considered optional.
	      :com lsl !!ls -l %a - set the lsl command to execute ls -l  with
	      or without an argument.

       :lsl<Enter>
	      will list the directory contents of the current directory.

       :lsl filename<Enter>
	      will list only the given filename.

       The macros can also be used in directly executing commands.  ":!mv %f
       %D" would move the current directory selected files to the other direc-
       tory.

       Appending & to the end of a command causes it to be executed in the
       background.  Typically you want to run two kinds of external commands
       in the background:

	 - GUI applications that doesn't fork thus block vifm (:!sxiv %f &);

	 - console tools that do not work with terminal (:!mv %f %D &).

       You don't want to run terminal commands, which require terminal input
       or output something in background because they will mess up vifm's TUI.
       Anyway, if you did run such a command, you can use Ctrl-L key to update
       vifm's TUI.

       Rewriting the example command with macros given above with background-
       ing:

       %m,  %M,	 %s,  %S,  %u and %U macros cannot be combined with background
       mark (" &") as it doesn't make much sense.

Command backgrounding
       File system operations can take a lot of time to proceed.   That's  why
       vifm  supports backgrounding them.  To run :copy, :move or :delete com-
       mand in background just append " &" to it.

       For each background operation a new thread is created.	Job  cancella-
       tion can be requested in the :jobs menu via dd shortcut.

       You  can	 check if a command is still running in the :jobs menu.	 Back-
       grounded commands have progress instead of process id at the  beginning
       of the line.

       Background operations cannot be undone.

       See "File copying" section below.

Cancellation
       Note that cancellation works somewhat different on Windows platform due
       to  different  mechanism	 of  break signal propagation.	One also might
       need to use Ctrl-Break shortcut instead of Ctrl-C.

       There are two types of operations that can be cancelled:

	 - file system operations;

	 - mounting with FUSE (but not unmounting as  it  can  cause  loss  of
	   data);

	 - calls of external applications.

       Note  that  vifm	 never terminates applications, it sends SIGINT signal
       and lets the application quit normally.

       When one of a set of operations is cancelled (e.g. copying of 5th  file
       of  10 files), further operations are cancelled too.  In this case undo
       history will contain only actually performed operations.

       Cancelled operations are indicated by "(cancelled)" suffix appended  to
       information message on status bar.

       File system operations

       Currently  the  following  commands  can	 be cancelled: :alink, :chmod,
       :chown,	:clone,	 :copy,	 :delete,  :mkdir,  :move,  :restore,  :rlink,
       :touch.	 File putting (on p/P key) can be cancelled as well.  It's not
       hard to see that these are mainly long-running operations.

       Cancelling commands when they are repeated for undo/redo operations  is
       allowed	for  convenience,  but is not recommended as further undo/redo
       operations might get blocked by	side-effects  of  partially  cancelled
       group of operations.

       These commands can't be cancelled: :empty, :rename, :substitute, :tr.

       Mounting with FUSE

       It's  not considered to be an error, so only a notification on the sta-
       tus bar is shown.

       External application calls

       Each of these operations can be cancelled: :apropos, :find, :grep, :lo-
       cate.

Selection
       If there is a selection, it's stashed before proceeding further	unless
       file  under the cursor is part of that selection.  This means that when
       macros are expanded for :filetype or :filextype programs, `%f` and `%F`
       become equivalent to `%c` and `%C` respectively if current file is  not
       selected.   So you run selection by running one of selected files, oth-
       erwise you're running a single file even if there  are  other  selected
       entries.

       When running a selection it must not include broken symbolic links, has
       to  be consistent and set of file handlers must be compatible.  Consis-
       tency means that selection contains either only directories  (including
       links to them) or only files, but not their mix.

       Compatibility is a more sophisticated check, but it's defined in a nat-
       ural  way  so that you get what you'd expect.  The following properties
       of selection are taken into account while checking it for compatibility
       and deciding how to handle it:


	 1. If there any files for which handler isn't defined, then all files
	    are opened using 'vicmd' or 'vixcmd'.


	 2. If all handlers match the following criteria:
	     - backgrounded
	     - include `%c`/`%"c` and/or `%C`/`%"C`
	     - include neither `%f`/`%"f` nor `%F`/`%"F`
	    then each file is executed independently of the rest.


	 3. If all handlers are equal, the common handler is  executed.	  This
	    handler  might  ignore  selection  and process only file under the
	    cursor.


	 4. Otherwise, an error is reported, because handlers differ and  they
	    don't support parallel execution.

Patterns
       :highlight,  :filetype, :filextype, :fileviewer commands and 'classify'
       option support globs, regular expressions and mime types to match  file
       names  or  their paths.	Directory paths get an implicit trailing slash
       on matching against a pattern, keep that in mind for globs  or  regular
       expressions that end with `$`.

       There are six possible ways to write a single pattern:

	 1. [!]{comma-separated-name-globs}

	 2. [!]{{comma-separated-path-globs}}

	 3. [!]/name-regular-expression/[iI]

	 4. [!]//path-regular-expression//[iI]

	 5. [!]<comma-separated-mime-type-globs>

	 6. undecorated-pattern

       First five forms can include leading exclamation mark that negates pat-
       tern matching.

       The  last  form is implicitly refers to one of others.  :highlight does
       not accept undecorated form, while :filetype, :filextype,  :fileviewer,
       :select, :unselect and 'classify' treat it as list of name globs.

       Path  patterns receive absolute path of the file that includes its name
       component as well.

       To combine several patterns (AND them), make sure you're using  one  of
       the first five forms and write patterns one after another, like this:
	 <text/plain>{*.vifm}
       Mind that if you make a mistake the whole string will be treated as the
       sixth form.

       :filetype,  :filextype  and :fileviewer commands accept comma-separated
       list of patterns instead of a single pattern, thus effectively handling
       OR operation on them:
	 <text/plain>{*.vifm},<application/pdf>{*.pdf}
       Forms that accept comma-separated lists of patterns also	 process  them
       as lists of alternatives.

       Patterns with regular expressions

       Regular	expression  patterns  are case insensitive by default, see de-
       scription of commands, which might override default behaviour.

       Flags of regular expressions mean the following:
	 - "i" makes filter case insensitive;
	 - "I" makes filter case sensitive.  They  can	be  repeated  multiple
       times,  but  the later one takes precedence (e.g.  "iiiI" is equivalent
       to "I" and "IiIi" is the same as "i").

       There are no implicit `^` or `$`, so make sure to specify them  explic-
       itly if the pattern should match the whole name or path.

       Patterns with globs

       "Globs"	section below provides short overview of globs and some impor-
       tant points that one needs to know about them.

       Patterns with mime-types

       Mime type matching is essentially globs matching applied to  mime  type
       of  a  file instead of its name/path.  Note: mime types aren't detected
       on Windows.

       Examples

       Associate `evince` to PDF-files only inside `/home/user/downloads/` di-
       rectory (excluding its subdirectories):

	 :filextype //^/home/user/downloads/[^/]*.pdf$// evince %f


Regular expressions
       All regular expressions are modern/extended.  See  `man	7  regex`  for
       more details on what's supported.

       The following special sequences are additionally parsed:
	- `\c` forces matching ignoring case of letters
	- `\C` forces matching respecting case of letters

       `\c`  and `\C` have the highest priority in determining whether case is
       matched or not and exist	 to  override  'ignorecase',  'smartcase'  and
       `i`/`I` flags when necessary.

       If  multiple  sequences	are present, the one which appears later takes
       precedence.

       Note that unlike in Vim character classes are affected by settings  and
       sequences that control case sensitivity in regular expressions.

Globs
       Globs are always case insensitive as it makes sense in general case.

       `*`,  `?`,  `[`	and `]` are treated as special symbols in the pattern.
       E.g.

	 :filetype * less %c

       matches all files.  One can use character classes for escaping, so

	 :filetype [*] less %c

       matches only one file name, the one which contains only	asterisk  sym-
       bol.

       `*`  means  any number of any characters (possibly an empty substring),
       with one exception: asterisk at the pattern beginning doesn't match dot
       in the first position.  E.g.

	 :fileviewer *.zip,*.jar zip -sf %c

       associates using of `zip` program to preview all files  with  `zip`  or
       `jar`  extensions as listing of their content, but `.file.zip` won't be
       matched.

       `?` means any character at this position.  E.g.

	 :fileviewer ?.out file %c

       calls `file` tool for all files which have exactly one character before
       their extension (e.g. a.out, b.out).

       Square brackets designate character class, which means that whole char-
       acter class matches against any of characters listed in it.  For	 exam-
       ple

	 :fileviewer *.[ch] highlight -O xterm256 -s dante --syntax c %c

       makes vifm call `highlight` program to colorize source and header files
       in C language for a 256-color terminal.	Equal command would be

	 :fileviewer *.c,*.h highlight -O xterm256 -s dante --syntax c %c


       Inside square brackets `^` or `!` can be used for symbol class negation
       and the `-` symbol to set a range.  `^` and `!` should appear right af-
       ter the opening square bracket.	For example

	 :filetype *.[!d]/ inspect_dir

       associates `inspect_dir` as additional handler for all directories that
       have one character extension unless it's "d" letter.  And

	 :filetype [0-9].jpg sxiv

       associates  `sxiv` picture viewer only for JPEG-files that contain sin-
       gle digit in their name.

       If you need to include literal comma, which normally separates multiple
       globs, double it.

:set options
       Local options
	      These are kind of options that are local to a specific view.  So
	      you can set ascending sorting order for left pane and descending
	      order for right pane.

	      In addition to being local to views, each such option  also  has
	      two values:

		- local	 to  current  directory (value associated with current
		  location);

		- global to  current  directory	 (value	 associated  with  the
		  pane).

	      The  idea	 is that current directory can be made a temporary ex-
	      ception to regular configuration of the  view,  until  directory
	      change.	Use :setlocal for that.	 :setglobal changes view value
	      not affecting settings until  directory  change.	 :set  applies
	      changes immediately to all values.


       'aproposprg'
	      type: string
	      default: "apropos %a"
	      Specifies	 format	 for  an external command to be invoked by the
	      :apropos command.	 The format supports expanding of macros, spe-
	      cific for a particular *prg option, and %% sequence for  insert-
	      ing  percent  sign literally.  This option should include the %a
	      macro to specify placement of arguments passed to	 the  :apropos
	      command.	 If the macro is not used, it will be implicitly added
	      after a space to the value of this option.

       'autocd'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      When enabled unknown command-line commands  are  interpreted  as
	      implicit	invocation  of	:cd with one argument and no escaping.
	      Tilde is expanded, but not macros or environment variables.

       'autochpos'
	      type: boolean
	      default: true
	      When disabled vifm will set cursor to the first line in the view
	      after :cd and :pushd commands instead of saved cursor  position.
	      Disabling	 this will also make vifm clear information about cur-
	      sor position in the view history on :cd and :pushd commands (and
	      on startup if 'autochpos' is disabled in the vifmrc).  l key  in
	      the  ":history ." and ":trashes" menus are treated like :cd com-
	      mand.  This option also affects marks so that  navigating	 to  a
	      mark doesn't restore cursor position.

	      When this option is enabled, more fine grained control over cur-
	      sor position is available via 'histcursor' option.

       'columns' 'co'
	      type: integer
	      default: terminal width on startup
	      Terminal width in characters.

       'caseoptions'
	      type: charset
	      default: ""
	      This  option  gives  additional control over case sensitivity by
	      allowing overriding default behaviour to either always  be  case
	      sensitive	 or  always be case insensitive.  Possible values form
	      pairs of lower and upper case letters  that  configure  specific
	      aspect of behaviour:
		p - always ignore case of paths during completion.
		P - always match case of paths during completion.
		g - always ignore case of characters for f/F/;/,.
		G - always match case of characters for f/F/;/,.

	      At  most one item of each pair takes affect, if both or more are
	      present, only the last one matters.  When none  of  pair's  ele-
	      ments  are present, the behaviour is default (depends on operat-
	      ing system for path completion and on values of 'ignorecase' and
	      'smartcase' options for file navigation).

       'cdpath' 'cd'
	      type: string list
	      default: value of $CDPATH with commas instead of colons
	      Specifies locations to check on changing directory with relative
	      path that doesn't start with "./"	 or  "../".   When  non-empty,
	      current  directory  is  examined after directories listed in the
	      option.

	      This option doesn't affect completion of :cd command.

	      Example:

		set cdpath=~

	      This way ":cd bin" will switch  to  "~/bin"  even	 if  directory
	      named  "bin" exists in current directory, while ":cd ./bin" com-
	      mand will ignore value of 'cdpath'.

       'chaselinks'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      When enabled path of view is always resolved to real path	 (with
	      all symbolic links expanded).

       'classify'
	      type: string list
	      default: ":dir:/"
	      Specifies file name prefixes and suffixes depending on file type
	      or  name	(mind  that  directory names have an implicit trailing
	      slash).  The format is either of:
		- [{prefix}]:{filetype}:[{suffix}]
		- [{prefix}]::{pattern}::[{suffix}]
	      Possible {pattern} forms are  described  in  "Patterns"  section
	      above.

	      Priority rules:
		- file name patterns have priority over type patterns
		-  file	 name  patterns	 are matched in left-to-right order of
	      their appearance in this option

	      Either {prefix} or {suffix} or both can be omitted (which is the
	      default for all unspecified file types), this means empty	 {pre-
	      fix}  and/or  {suffix}.  {prefix} and {suffix} should consist of
	      at most eight characters.	 Elements  are	separated  by  commas.
	      Neither  prefixes	 nor  suffixes are part of file names, so they
	      don't affect commands which operate on file names	 in  any  way.
	      Comma  (',')  character can be inserted by doubling it.  List of
	      file type names can be found in the  description	of  filetype()
	      function.

       'confirm' 'cf'
	      type: set
	      default: delete,permdelete
	      Defines which operations require confirmation:
	       - delete	    - moving files to trash (on d or :delete);
	       -  permdelete  -	 permanent deletion of files (on D or :delete!
	      command or on undo/redo operation).

       'cpoptions' 'cpo'
	      type: charset
	      default: "fst"
	      Contains a sequence of single-character flags.   Each  flag  en-
	      ables behaviour of older versions of vifm.  Flags:
	       - f - when included, running :filter command results in not in-
	      verted  (matching	 files	are  filtered out) and :filter! in in-
	      verted (matching files are left) filter, when  omitted,  meaning
	      of the exclamation mark changes to the opposite;
	       -  s - when included, yy, Y, dd and DD normal mode commands act
	      on selection if there is any, otherwise they operate on the cur-
	      rent file; when omitted, those commands always  operate  on  the
	      current file;
	       -  t  - when included, <tab> (thus <c-i>) behave as <space> and
	      switches active pane, otherwise <tab> and <c-i>  go  forward  in
	      the view history.	 It's possible to make both <tab> and <c-i> to
	      work as expected by setting up the terminal to emit a custom se-
	      quence when <c-i> is pressed; see :histnext for details.

       'cvoptions'
	      type: set
	      default:
	      Specifies	 whether entering/leaving custom views triggers events
	      that normally happen on entering/leaving directories:
	       - autocmds    - trigger autocommands on entering/leaving custom
	      views;
	       - localopts   - reset local options on entering/leaving	custom
	      views;
	       -  localfilter  - reset local filter on entering/leaving custom
	      views.

       'deleteprg'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      Specifies program to run on files that are permanently  removed.
	      When  empty,  files are removed as usual, otherwise this command
	      is invoked on each file by appending its name.  If  the  command
	      doesn't remove files, they will remain on the file system.

       'dirsize'
	      type: enumeration
	      default: size
	      Controls	how  size  of  directories is displayed in file views.
	      The following values are possible:
	       - size	- size of directory (i.e., size used to store list  of
	      files)
	       -  nitems - number of entries in the directory (excluding . and
	      ..)

	      Size obtained via ga/gA overwrites this setting so seeing	 count
	      of files and occasionally size of directories is possible.

       'dotdirs'
	      type: set
	      default: nonrootparent,treeleafsparent
	      Controls	displaying  of	dot directories.  The following values
	      are possible:
	       - rootparent	 - show "../" in root directory of file system
	       - nonrootparent	 - show "../" in non-root directories of  file
	      system
	       -  treeleafsparent  -  show  "../" in empty directories of tree
	      view

	      Note that empty directories always contain "../"	entry  regard-
	      less of value of this option.  "../" disappears at the moment at
	      least one file is created.

       'dotfiles'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      Whether dot files are shown in the view.	Can be controlled with
	      z* bindings.

       'fastrun'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      With  this  option  turned on you can run partially entered com-
	      mands with unambiguous beginning using :! (e.g. :!Te instead  of
	      :!Terminal or :!Te<tab>).

       'fillchars' 'fcs'
	      type: string list
	      default: ""
	      Sets characters used to fill borders.

		item	     default	used for
		hborder:c    ''		middle horizontal border
		millersep:c  ''		separator of miller columns
		vborder:c     '	 '	  left, middle and right vertical bor-
	      ders

	      An empty string for millersep or	vborder	 is  equivalent	 to  a
	      space.

	      An empty string for hborder omits the horizontal border.

	      Example:

		set fillchars=vborder:".",hborder:"",millersep:"|"

       'findprg'
	      type: string
	      default: "find %s %a"
	      Specifies	 format	 for  an external command to be invoked by the
	      :find command.  The format supports expansion of macros specific
	      for this particular option and %% sequence for inserting percent
	      sign literally.  The macros are:

		macro	value/meaning
		 %s	literal arguments of :find or
			list of paths to search in

		 %A	empty or
			literal arguments of :find
		 %a	empty or
			literal arguments of :find or
			predicate followed by escaped arguments of :find
		 %p	empty or
			literal arguments of :find or
			escaped arguments (parameters) of :find

		 %u	redirect output to custom view instead	of  showing  a
	      menu
		 %U	 redirect  output  to  unsorted custom view instead of
	      showing a menu

	      Predicate in %a is "-name" on *nix and "-iname" on Windows.

	      If both %u and %U are specified, %U is chosen.

	      Some macros can be added implicitly:
	       - if %s isn't present, it's appended
	       - if neither of %a, %A and %p is present, %a is appended
	       - if neither of %s, %a, %A and %p is present, %s and %a are ap-
	      pended in this order

	      The macros slightly change their meaning depending on format  of
	      :find's arguments:
	       -  if the first argument points to an existing directory, %s is
	      assigned all arguments while %a, %A and %p are left empty
	       - otherwise:
		  - %s is assigned a dot (".") meaning	current	 directory  or
	      list of selected file names, if any
		  -  %a,  %A  and %p are assigned literal arguments when first
	      argument starts with a dash ("-"), otherwise %a gets an  escaped
	      version  of  the	arguments with a predicate and %p contains es-
	      caped version of the arguments

	      Starting with Windows Server 2003 a `where`  command  is	avail-
	      able.  One can configure vifm to use it in the following way:

		  set findprg="where /R %s %A"

	      As  the  syntax of this command is rather limited, one can't use
	      :find command with selection of more than one item  because  the
	      command ignores all directory paths except for the last one.

	      When  using  find	 port  on  Windows, another option is to setup
	      'findprg' like this:

		  set findprg="find %s %a"


       'followlinks'
	      type: boolean
	      default: true
	      Follow links on l or Enter.  That	 is  navigate  to  destination
	      file  instead  of	 treating  the link as if it were target file.
	      Doesn't affects links to directories, which are  always  entered
	      (use gf key for directories).

       'fusehome'
	      type: string
	      default: "($XDG_DATA_HOME/vifm | $VIFM)/fuse/"
	      Directory	 to  be	 used as a root dir for FUSE mounts.  Value of
	      the option can contain  environment  variables  (in  form	 "$en-
	      vname"), which will be expanded (prepend it with a slash to pre-
	      vent expansion).	The value should expand to an absolute path.

	      If  you change this option, vifm won't remount anything.	It af-
	      fects future mounts only.	 See "Automatic FUSE  mounts"  section
	      below for more information.

       'gdefault' 'gd'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      When on, 'g' flag is on for :substitute by default.

       'grepprg'
	      type: string
	      default: "grep -n -H -I -r %i %a %s"
	      Specifies	 format	 for  an external command to be invoked by the
	      :grep command.  The format supports expanding  of	 macros,  spe-
	      cific  for a particular *prg option, and %% sequence for insert-
	      ing percent sign literally.  This option should include  the  %i
	      macro  to specify placement of "-v" string when inversion of re-
	      sults is requested, %a or %A macro to specify placement of argu-
	      ments passed to the :grep command and the %s  macro  to  specify
	      placement	 of list of files to search in.	 If some of the macros
	      are not used, they will be implicitly added after a space to the
	      value of the 'grepprg' option in the following  order:  %i,  %a,
	      %s.   Note  that	when  neither %a nor %A are specified, it's %a
	      which is added implicitly.

	      Optional %u or %U macro could be used (if both specified	%U  is
	      chosen)  to  force redirection to custom or unsorted custom view
	      respectively.

	      See 'findprg' option for description of  difference  between  %a
	      and %A.

	      Example  of setup to use ack (http://beyondgrep.com/) instead of
	      grep:

		set grepprg='ack -H -r %i %a %s'

	      or  The  Silver	Searcher   (https://github.com/ggreer/the_sil-
	      ver_searcher):

		set grepprg='ag --line-numbers %i %a %s'



       'histcursor'
	      type: set
	      default: startup,dirmark,direnter
	      Defines  situations when cursor should be moved according to di-
	      rectory history:
	       - startup  - on loading file lists during startup
	       - dirmark  - after navigating to a mark	that  doesn't  specify
	      file
	       - direnter - on opening directory from a file list

	      This option has no effect when 'autochpos' is disabled.

	      Note  that the list is not exhaustive and there are other situa-
	      tions when cursor is positioned automatically.

       'history' 'hi'
	      type: integer
	      default: 15
	      Maximum number of stored items in all histories.

       vifm-'hloptions'
	      type: string list
	      default: "filehi:onerow"
	      Configures behaviour of highlighting.

		item	    default
		filehi:str  onerow

	      The "filehi" item specifies which columns of the view  get  col-
	      ored according to file type and its name:
	       -  path	   -  highlight	 columns that display file path, name,
	      root or extension
	       - onerow	 - same as "path" and also highlight  all  columns  of
	      the current line
	       - allrows - highlight all columns of each row

       'hlsearch' 'hls'
	      type: boolean
	      default: true
	      Automatically select files that are search matches.

       'iec'  type: boolean
	      default: false
	      Use  KiB,	 MiB,  ... suffixes instead of K, M, ... when printing
	      size in human-friendly format.

       'ignorecase' 'ic'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      Ignore case in search patterns (:substitute, / and ?  commands),
	      local  filter (but not the rest of filters) and other things de-
	      tailed in the description of 'caseoptions'.

       'incsearch' 'is'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      When this option is set, search and view update for local filter
	      is be performed starting from initial cursor position each  time
	      search pattern is changed.

       'iooptions'
	      type: set
	      default: datasync
	      Controls	details	 of file operations.  The following values are
	      available:
	       - datasync - periodically synchronize writes on	copying	 files
	      when  'syscalls' is set.	(This makes copying last as long as it
	      takes to actually write data to the medium, which is slower than
	      you might expect; however, this also prevents system hanging due
	      to filling memory with file-system cache.)
	       - fastfilecloning - perform fast file cloning  (copy-on-write),
	      when available (available on Linux and btrfs file system).

       'laststatus' 'ls'
	      type: boolean
	      default: true
	      Controls if status bar is visible.

       'lines'
	      type: integer
	      default: terminal height on startup
	      Terminal height in lines.

       'locateprg'
	      type: string
	      default: "locate %a"
	      Specifies	 format	 for  an external command to be invoked by the
	      :locate command.	The format supports expanding of macros,  spe-
	      cific  for a particular *prg option, and %% sequence for insert-
	      ing percent sign literally.  This option should include  the  %a
	      macro  to	 specify  placement of arguments passed to the :locate
	      command.	If the macro is not used, it will be implicitly	 added
	      after a space to the value of this option.

	      Optional	%u  or %U macro could be used (if both specified %U is
	      chosen) to force redirection to custom or unsorted  custom  view
	      respectively.

       'mediaprg'
	      type: string
	      default: path to bundled script that supports udevil, udisks and
	      udisks2
		       (using  udisks2	requires  python  with dbus module in-
	      stalled)
		       OS X: path points to a python script that uses diskutil
	      {only for *nix}
	      Specifies command to be used to manage media devices.   Used  by
	      :media command.

	      The command can be passed the following parameters:
	       - list		-- list media
	       - mount {device} -- mount a device
	       - unmount {path} -- unmount given mount point

	      The  output  of  `list`  subcommand is parsed in search of lines
	      that start with one of the following prefixes:
	       - device=      - specifies device path (e.g., "/dev/sde")
	       - label=	      - specifies optional device label (e.g., "Memory
	      card")
	       - info=	      - specifies arbitrary text to  display  next  to
	      device (by
				default	 "[label]"  is	used, if label is pro-
	      vided)
	       - mount-point= - specifies a mount point (can be absent or  ap-
	      pear more than once)

	      All  other  lines are ignored.  Each `device=` starts a new sec-
	      tion describing a device which should include two other possible
	      prefixes.

	      `list` subcommand is assumed to always succeed, while exit  code
	      of  `mount`  and	`unmount`  is  taken into account to determine
	      whether operation was performed successfully.

       'lsoptions'
	      type: string list
	      default: ""
	      scope: local

	      Configures ls-like view.

		item	      used for
		columncount   fixed number of columns to display or 0
		transposed    filling view grid	 by  columns  rather  than  by
	      lines


       'lsview'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      scope: local
	      When  this  option  is  set, directory view will be displayed in
	      multiple columns with file names similar to output  of  `ls  -x`
	      command.	 See  "ls-like view" section below for format descrip-
	      tion.  This option has no effect if 'millerview' is on.

       'milleroptions'
	      type: string list
	      default: "lsize:1,csize:1,rsize:1,rpreview:dirs"
	      scope: local

	      Configures miller view.

		item	      default  used for
		lsize:num     0	       left column
		csize:num     1	       center column (can't be disabled)
		rsize:num     0	       right column
		rpreview:str  dirs     right column

	      *size specifies ratios of columns.  Each ratio is in  the	 range
	      from  0  to 100 and values are adjusted to fit the limits.  Zero
	      disables a column, but central (main) column can't be disabled.

	      rpreview specifies what file-system objects should be  previewed
	      in  the right column and takes three values: dirs (only directo-
	      ries), files (only files) or all.	 Neither value enables preview
	      of parent directory ("..").

	      Example of two-column mode which is useful in  combination  with
	      :view command:

		set milleroptions=lsize:1,csize:2


       'millerview'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      scope: local
	      When  this  option  is  set, directory view will be displayed in
	      multiple cascading columns.  Ignores 'lsview'.

       'mintimeoutlen'
	      type: integer
	      default: 150
	      The fracture of 'timeoutlen' in milliseconds that is waited  be-
	      tween subsequent input polls, which affects various asynchronous
	      operations  (detecting  changes  made  by external applications,
	      monitoring background jobs, redrawing UI).  There are no	strict
	      guarantees,  however  the	 higher this value is, the less is CPU
	      load in idle mode.

       'mouse'
	      type: charset
	      default: ""

	      Contains a sequence of single-character flags:
	       - a - all supported modes (a shorthand for all the rest and fu-
	      ture additions)
	       - c - command-line mode (includes navigation mode)
	       - m - menu mode
	       - n - normal mode
	       - q - view mode
	       - v - visual mode

       'navoptions'
	      type: string list
	      default: "open:dirs"

	      Configures behaviour of navigation mode.

		item	  default
		open:str  dirs

	      The "open" item specifies what  file-system  objects  should  be
	      opened on Enter and can take two values: dirs (only directories)
	      or all.

       'number' 'nu'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      scope: local
	      Print  line  number in front of each file name when 'lsview' op-
	      tion is turned off.  Use 'numberwidth' to control width of  line
	      number.  Also see 'relativenumber'.

       'numberwidth' 'nuw'
	      type: integer
	      default: 4
	      scope: local
	      Minimal number of characters for line number field.

       'previewoptions'
	      type: string list
	      default: "graphicsdelay:50000"

	      Tweaks how previewing is done (in quick view, miller view's col-
	      umn and view mode).

		item		   default  meaning
		graphicsdelay:num  0	    delay before drawing graphics (mi-
	      croseconds)
		hardgraphicsclear  unset    redraw screen to get rid of graph-
	      ics
		maxtreedepth:num    0	      max  number of levels in preview
	      tree
		toptreestats	   unset    show file counts before the tree

	      graphicsdelay is needed if terminal requires some timeout before
	      it can draw graphics (otherwise it gets lost).

	      hardgraphicsclear seems to be necessary  to  get	rid  of	 sixel
	      graphics	in  some  terminals, where it otherwise lingers.  This
	      can cause flicker on the screen due to erasure followed  by  re-
	      drawing.

	      0	 for maxtreedepth means "unlimited", 1 will only show selected
	      directory, 2 adds its children, and so forth.

	      Default value is used when item is missing from the option.

       'previewprg'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      scope: local

	      External command to be used instead of preview programs  config-
	      ured via :fileviewer command.

	      Example:

		" always show git log in preview of files inside some repository
		au DirEnter '~/git-repo/**/*' setl previewprg='git log --color -- %c 2>&1'

       'quickview'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      Whether quick view (:view) is currently active or not.

       'relativenumber' 'rnu'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      scope: local
	      Print  relative  line  number  in	 front	of each file name when
	      'lsview' option is turned off.   Use  'numberwidth'  to  control
	      width  of	 line  number.	 Various  combinations of 'number' and
	      'relativenumber' lead to such results:

				      nonumber		     number

		  norelativenumber   | first		    |	1 first
				     | second		    |	2 second
				     | third		    |	3 third

		    relativenumber   |	 1 first	    |	1 first
				     |	 0 second	    |2	  second
				     |	 1 third	    |	1 third


       'rulerformat' 'ruf'
	      type: string
	      default: "%l/%S "
	      Determines the content of the ruler.  Its minimal	 width	is  13
	      characters  and  it's  right aligned.  Following macros are sup-
	      ported:
	       %=  - separation point between left and right aligned halves of
	      the line
	       %l  - file number
	       %L  - total number of files in  view  (including	 filtered  out
	      ones)
	       %x  - number of files excluded by filters
	       %0- - old name for %x macro
	       %P   - percentage through file list (All, Top, xx% or Bot), al-
	      ways 3 in length
	       %S  - number of displayed files
	       %=  - separation point between left and right align items
	       %%  - literal percent sign
	       %[  - designates beginning of an optional block
	       %]  - designates end of an optional block

	      Percent sign can be followed by optional	minimum	 field	width.
	      Add '-' before minimum field width if you want field to be right
	      aligned.

	      Optional	blocks are ignored unless at least one macro inside of
	      them is expanded to a non-empty value.

	      Example:

		set rulerformat='%2l-%S%[ +%x%]'

       'runexec'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      Run executable file on Enter, l or Right Arrow  key.   Behaviour
	      of the last two depends on the value of the 'lsview' option.

       'scrollbind' 'scb'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      When  this  option  is  set, vifm will try to keep difference of
	      scrolling positions of two windows constant.

       'scrolloff' 'so'
	      type: integer
	      default: 0
	      Minimal number of screen lines to keep above and below the  cur-
	      sor.   If you want cursor line to always be in the middle of the
	      view (except at the beginning or end of the file list), set this
	      option to some large value (e.g. 999).

       'sessionoptions' 'ssop'
	      sessionoptions ssop
	      type: set
	      default: tui,state,tabs,savedirs,dhistory
	      An equivalent of 'vifminfo' for sessions, uses the same  values.
	      When both options include the same value, data from session file
	      has  higher  priority (data from vifminfo isn't necessarily com-
	      pletely discarded, instead it's merged with the state of a  ses-
	      sion  the	 same  way  state  of  multiple instances is merged on
	      exit).

       'shell' 'sh'
	      type: string
	      default: $SHELL or "/bin/sh" or "cmd" (on MS-Windows)
	      Full path to the shell to use to run external commands.  On *nix
	      a shell argument can be supplied.

       'shellcmdflag' 'shcf'
	      type: string
	      default: "-c" or "/C" (for cmd.exe on MS-Windows)
	      Command-line option used to pass a  command  to  'shell'.	  It's
	      used in contexts where command comes from the user.

	      Note  that  using	 this  option to force interactive mode of the
	      shell is most likely a BAD IDEA.	In  general  interactive  host
	      and  interactive	child shell can't share the same terminal ses-
	      sion.  You can't even run such a shell in background.   Consider
	      writing  a wrapper for your shell that preloads aliases and com-
	      mands without making the shell interactive and ending  up	 using
	      it in a way it was not meant to be used.

	      Note  that  this option is ignored when 'shell' is set to Power-
	      Shell due to the internal use of `-encodedCommand`.

       'shortmess' 'shm'
	      type: charset
	      default: "p"
	      Contains a sequence of single-character flags.   Each  flag  en-
	      ables  shortening	 of some message displayed by vifm in the TUI.
	      Flags:
	       - L - display only last directory in tab line instead  of  full
	      path.
	       -  M  - shorten titles in windows of terminal multiplexers cre-
	      ated by vifm down to file name instead of using full path.
	       - T - truncate status bar messages in the middle	 if  they  are
	      too  long	 to fit on the command line.  "..." will appear in the
	      middle.
	       - p - use tilde shortening in view titles.


       'showtabline' 'stal'
	      type: enumeration
	      default: multiple
	      Specifies when tab line should be displayed.  Possible values:
	       - never	  - never display tab line
	       - multiple - show tab line only when there  are	at  least  two
	      tabs
	       - always	  - display tab line always

	      Alternatively  0, 1 and 2 Vim-like values	 are also accepted and
	      correspond to "never", "multiple" and "always" respectively.

       'sizefmt'
	      type: string list
	      default: "units:iec"
	      Configures the way size is formatted in human-friendly way.

		  item		value	      meaning
		  units:	iec	      Use 1024 byte units (K  or  KiB,
	      etc.).
					      See 'iec' option.
				si	      Use 1000 byte units (KB, etc.).
		  precision:	i > 0	      How many fraction digits to con-
	      sider.
				{not  set}     Precision of 1 for integer part
	      < 10,
					      0 otherwise (provides old behav-
	      iour).
		  space		{present}     Insert space  before  unit  sym-
	      bols.
					      This is the default.
		  nospace	 {present}     Do not insert space before unit
	      symbols.

	      Numbers are rounded from zero.  Trailing zeros are dropped.

	      Example:

		set sizefmt=units:iec,precision:2,nospace


       'slowfs'
	      type: string list
	      default: ""
	      only for *nix
	      A list of mounter fs name beginnings (first column in  /etc/mtab
	      or  /proc/mounts) or paths prefixes for fs/directories that work
	      too slow for you.	 This option can be used  to  stop  vifm  from
	      making  some  requests  to particular kinds of file systems that
	      can slow down file browsing.  Currently this means  don't	 check
	      if directory has changed, skip check if target of symbolic links
	      exists,  assume  that link target located on slow fs to be a di-
	      rectory (allows entering directories and navigating to files via
	      gf).  If you set the option to "*", it means all the systems are
	      considered slow (useful for cygwin, where all the	 checks	 might
	      render vifm very slow if there are network mounts).

	      Example for autofs root /mnt/autofs:

		set slowfs+=/mnt/autofs

       'smartcase' 'scs'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      Overrides	 the  ignorecase option if a pattern contains at least
	      one upper case character.	 Only used when 'ignorecase' option is
	      enabled.

       'sort' type: string list
	      default: +name on *nix and +iname on Windows
	      scope: local
	      Sets list of sorting keys (first item is primary key, second  is
	      secondary key, etc.):
		 [+-]ext     - extension of files and directories
		 [+-]fileext - extension of files only
		 [+-]name    - name (including extension)
		 [+-]iname   - name (including extension, ignores case)
		 [+-]type		  -		 file		  type
	      (dir/reg/exe/link/char/block/sock/fifo)
		 [+-]dir     - directory grouping (directory < file)
		 [+-]gid     - group id (*nix only)
		 [+-]gname   - group name (*nix only)
		 [+-]mode    - file type derived from its mode (*nix only)
		 [+-]perms   - permissions string (*nix only)
		 [+-]uid     - owner id (*nix only)
		 [+-]uname   - owner name (*nix only)
		 [+-]nlinks  - number of hard links (*nix only)
		 [+-]inode   - inode number (*nix only)
		 [+-]size    - size
		 [+-]nitems  - number of items in a directory (zero for files)
		 [+-]groups  - groups extracted via regexps from 'sortgroups'
		 [+-]target  - symbolic link  target  (empty  for  other  file
	      types)
		 [+-]atime   - time accessed (e.g., read, executed)
		 [+-]ctime   - time changed (changes in metadata, like mode)
		 [+-]mtime   - time modified (when file contents is changed)

	      Note:  look  for st_atime, st_ctime and st_mtime in "man 2 stat"
	      for more information on time keys.

	      '+' means ascending sort for this key, and '-' means  descending
	      sort.

	      "dir"  key is somewhat similar in this regard but it's added im-
	      plicitly: when "dir" is not specified, sorting behaves as if  it
	      was  the first key in the list.  That's why if one wants sorting
	      algorithm to mix directories and files, "dir" should be appended
	      to sorting option, for example like this:

		set sort+=dir

	      or

		set sort=-size,dir

	      Value of the option is checked to include dir  key  and  default
	      sorting key (name on *nix, iname on Windows).  Here is what hap-
	      pens if one of them is missing:

		- type key is added at the beginning;

		- default key is added at the end;

	      all other keys are left untouched (at most they are moved).

	      This option also changes view columns according to primary sort-
	      ing key set, unless 'viewcolumns' option is not empty.

       'sortnumbers'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      scope: local
	      Natural sort of (version) numbers within text.

       'sortgroups'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      scope: local
	      Sets  comma-separated list of regular expressions for group type
	      of sorting.  Double the comma to insert it literally.

	      The regular expressions are used to extract substrings  of  file
	      names  to serve as keys for sorting.  It is essentially a way to
	      ignore uninteresting parts of file names during sorting by name.

	      Each expression should contain at least one group or  its	 value
	      will  be	considered  to	be always empty.  Also, only the first
	      match of regular expression is processed.

	      The first group divides list of files into sub-groups,  each  of
	      which  is then sorted by substrings extracted using second regu-
	      lar expression and so on recursively.

	      Example:
		set sortgroups=-(todo|done).*
	      this would group files with "-done" in  their  names  and	 files
	      with "-todo" separately.	On ascending sorting, group containing
	      "-done" would appear before the other one.

       'sortorder'
	      type: enumeration
	      default: ascending
	      Sets sort order for primary key: ascending, descending.

       'statusline' 'stl'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      Determines  the content of the status line (the line right above
	      command-line).  Empty string means use same format like in  pre-
	      vious versions.  Following macros are supported:

	      - %N  -  line break (increases height of the status line accord-
		ingly), ignores %[ %] blocks

	      - %t - file name (considering value of the 'classify' option)

	      - %T - symbolic link target (empty for other filetypes)

	      - %f - file name relative to current directory (considers 'clas-
		sify')

	      - %A - file attributes (permissions on  *nix  or	properties  on
		Windows)

	      - %o  -  file permissions in octal form on *nix (nothing on Win-
		dows)

	      - %u - user name or uid (if it cannot be resolved)

	      - %g - group name or gid (if it cannot be resolved)

	      - %s - file size in human readable format

	      - %E - size of selected files in human readable format, same  as
		%s  when no files are selected, except that it will never show
		size of ../ in visual mode, since it cannot be selected

	      - %d - file modification date (uses 'timefmt' option)

	      - %D - path of the other pane for single-pane layout

	      - %a - amount of free space available on current FS

	      - %c - size of current FS

	      - %z - short tips/tricks/hints that chosen  randomly  after  one
		minute period

	      - %{<expr>}  - evaluate arbitrary vifm expression '<expr>', e.g.
		'&sort' or `expand('%d')`; a raw `}` can be inserted  as  `\}`
		(mind that the slash doesn't need to be doubled to be inserted
		literally)

	      - %*  - resets or applies one of User1..User20 highlight groups;
		reset happens when width field is 0 or not specified,  one  of
		the groups gets picked when width field is in the range from 1
		to 20

	      - all 'rulerformat' macros

	      Percent  sign  can  be followed by optional minimum field width.
	      Add '-' before minimum field width if you want field to be right
	      aligned.

	      On Windows file properties include the  following	 flags	(upper
	      case means flag is on):
	       A - archive
	       H - hidden
	       I - content isn't indexed
	       R - readonly
	       S - system
	       C - compressed
	       D - directory
	       E - encrypted
	       P - reparse point (e.g. symbolic link)
	       Z - sparse file

	      Example without colors:

		set statusline="  %t%= %A %10u:%-7g %15s %20d %{&sort} "

	      Example with colors:

	       highlight User1 ctermbg=yellow
	       highlight User2 ctermbg=blue ctermfg=white cterm=bold
	       set statusline="%1* %-26t %2* %= %1* %A %2* %7u:%-7g %1* %-5s %2* %d "


       'suggestoptions'
	      type: string list
	      default:
	      Controls	when, for what and how suggestions are displayed.  The
	      following values are available:
	       - normal		 - in normal mode;
	       - visual		 - in visual mode;
	       - view		 - in view mode;
	       - otherpane	 - use other pane to display suggestions, when
	      available;
	       - delay[:num]	 - display suggestions after a small delay (to
	      do not annoy if you just want to type a fast shortcut consisting
	      of multiple keys), num specifies the delay in  ms	 (500  by  de-
	      fault), 'timeoutlen' at most;
	       - keys		 - include shortcuts (commands and selectors);
	       - foldsubkeys	 - fold multiple keys with common prefix;
	       - marks		 - include marks;
	       -  registers[:num] - include registers, at most num files (5 by
	      default).

       'syncregs'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      Specifies identifier of group of instances that share  registers
	      among  each other.  When several instances of vifm have this op-
	      tion set to identical value, they automatically synchronize con-
	      tents of their registers on operations which use them.

       'syscalls'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      When disabled, vifm will rely on external applications  to  per-
	      form file-system operations, otherwise system calls are used in-
	      stead  (much faster and supports progress tracking).  The option
	      should eventually be removed.  Mostly *nix-like systems are  af-
	      fected.

       'tablabel'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      When non-empty and 'tabline' isn't set, determines format of the
	      main part of a single tab's label.

	      When  empty,  tab label is set to either tab name for named tabs
	      or to view title (usually current path) for unnamed tabs.

	      The following macros can appear in the  format  (see  below  for
	      what a flag is):

	      - %C	 - flag of a current tab

	      - %N	 - number of the tab

	      - %T	 - flag of a tree mode

	      - %c	 - description of a custom view

	      - %n	 - name of the tab

	      - %p	 - path of the view (handles filename modifiers)

	      - %t	 - title of the view (affected by 'shortmess' flags)

	      - %%	 - literal percent sign

	      - %[	 - designates beginning of an optional block

	      - %]	 - designates end of an optional block

	      - %*, %0*	 - resets highlighting

	      - %1*-%20* - applies one of User1..User20 highlight groups

	      In global tabs the view in bullets above refers to currently ac-
	      tive view of that tab.

	      Flag  macros  are a special kind of macros that always expand to
	      an empty value and are meant to be used inside  optional	blocks
	      to control their visibility.

	      Optional	blocks are ignored unless at least one macro inside of
	      them is expanded to a non-empty value or is a set flag macro.

		" %[(%n)%]	  -- optional name of the tab
		" %[		  -- optional description of the view
		"   %[%T{tree}%]  -- mark of tree mode
		"   %[{%c}%]	  -- description of custom view
		"   @		  -- just an extra separator before the path
		' %]
		" %p:t		  -- tail part of view's location
		set tablabel=%[(%n)%]%[%[%T{tree}%]%[{%c}%]@%]%p:t

       'tabline' 'tal'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      When non-empty, determines format of the tab  line.   Note  that
	      mouse clicks won't be handled when this option is non-empty.

	      The following macros can appear in the format:

	      - %*, %0*	 - resets highlighting

	      - %1*-%20* - applies one of User1..User20 highlight groups

       'tabprefix'
	      type: string
	      default: "[%N:"
	      Determines  prefix  of a tab's label.  Formatting is done as for
	      'tablabel' option.

       'tabscope'
	      type: enumeration
	      default: global
	      Picks style of tabs, which defines what a single	tab  contains.
	      Possible values:
	       -  global - tab describes complete UI of two views and how they
	      are arranged
	       - pane	- tab is located "inside" a pane and  manages  it  and
	      quick view

       'tabstop' 'ts'
	      type: integer
	      default: value from curses library
	      Number of spaces that a Tab in the file counts for.

       'tabsuffix'
	      type: string
	      default: "]"
	      Determines  suffix  of a tab's label.  Formatting is done as for
	      'tablabel' option.

       'timefmt'
	      type: string
	      default: "%m/%d %H:%M"
	      Format of time in file list.  See "man 1 date" or "man  3	 strf-
	      time" for details.

       'timeoutlen' 'tm'
	      type: integer
	      default: 1000
	      The time in milliseconds that is waited for a mapped key in case
	      of already typed key sequence is ambiguous.

       'title'
	      type: boolean
	      default: true when title can be restored, false otherwise
	      When  enabled,  title  of the terminal or terminal multiplexer's
	      window is updated according to current  location.	  Because  not
	      all  terminals support setting title, this works only if `$TERM`
	      value matches one of the following conditions:
	       - equals "xterm" or starts with "xterm-"
	       - equals "rxvt" or starts with "rxvt-"
	       - equals "screen" or starts with "screen-"
	       - equals "aterm"
	       - equals "Eterm"

       'trash'
	      type: boolean
	      default: true
	      Use trash directory.  See "Trash directory" section below.

       'trashdir'
	      type: string
	      default:
		on *nix:
		  "%r/.vifm-Trash-%u,$XDG_DATA_HOME/vifm/Trash,%r/.vifm-Trash"
		  or
		  "%r/.vifm-Trash-%u,$VIFM/Trash,%r/.vifm-Trash"
		on Windows:
		  "%r/.vifm-Trash,$XDG_DATA_HOME/vifm/Trash"
		  or
		  "%r/.vifm-Trash,$VIFM/vifm/Trash"
	      List of trash directory path specifications, separated with com-
	      mas.  Each list item either defines an absolute  path  to	 trash
	      directory or a path relative to a mount point root when list el-
	      ement  starts with "%r/".	 Value of the option can contain envi-
	      ronment variables (of form "$envname"), which will  be  expanded
	      (prepend	$  with	 a  slash  to prevent expansion).  Environment
	      variables are expanded when the option is set.

	      On *nix, if element ends with "%u", the mark  is	replaced  with
	      real  user ID and permissions are set so that only that owner is
	      able to use it.
	      Note that even this setup is not completely secure when combined
	      with "%r/" and it's overall safer to keep files in  home	direc-
	      tory, but that implies cost of copying files between partitions.

	      When  new file gets cut (deleted) vifm traverses each element of
	      the option in the order of their appearance and uses first trash
	      directory that  it  was  able  to	 create	 or  that  is  already
	      writable.

	      Default  value  tries to use trash directory per mount point and
	      falls back to trash common trash directory on failure.

	      Will attempt to create the directory if it does not exist.   See
	      "Trash directory" section below.

       'tuioptions' 'to'
	      type: charset
	      default: "psv"
	      Each  flag  configures some aspect of TUI appearance.  The flags
	      are:
	      p - when included:
		  * file list inside a pane gets additional  single  character
	      padding on left and right sides;
		  * quick view and view mode get single character padding.
	      s	 -  when included, left and right borders (side borders, hence
	      "s" character) are visible.
	      u - use Unicode characters in the TUI (Unicode ellipsis  instead
	      of "...").
	      v - vary width of vertical middle border to equalize view sizes.

	      Each  pane  title contains the path of the listed directory.  If
	      too large, the path is truncated on the left for the active pane
	      and on the right for the other pane.  This can be modified with:

	      l - truncation is always on the left.
	      r - truncation is always on the right.

       'uioptions'
	      type: set
	      default:
	      Tweaks UI behaviour.  The following values are available:
	       - iodetails - show I/O progress	details	 dialog	 automatically
	      instead  of  displaying progress on statusbar until user presses
	      "i" to see the dialog.

       'undolevels' 'ul'
	      type: integer
	      default: 100
	      Maximum number of changes that can be undone.   Note  that  here
	      single  file  operation  is  used as a unit, not operation, i.e.
	      deletion of 101 files will exceed default limit.

       'vicmd'
	      type: string
	      default: "vim"
	      Command used to edit files in various contexts.  Ampersand  sign
	      at  the  end  (regardless whether it's preceded by space or not)
	      means backgrounding of command.

	      Background flag is ignored in certain context where  vifm	 waits
	      for  the	editor	to  finish.  Such contexts include any command
	      that spawns editor to change list of file names  or  a  command,
	      with  :rename  being one example.	 `-f` is also appended to pre-
	      vent forking in such cases, so the command needs to  handle  the
	      flag.

	      Additionally  `+{num}` and `+'call cursor()'` arguments are used
	      to position cursor when location is known.

       'viewcolumns'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      scope: local
	      Format string containing list of columns in the view.  When this
	      option is empty, view columns to show are	 chosen	 automatically
	      using sorting keys (see 'sort') as a base.  Value of this option
	      is  ignored if 'lsview' is set.  See "Column view" section below
	      for format description.

	      An example of setting the options for both  panes	 (note	:windo
	      command):

		windo set viewcolumns=-{name}..,6{size},11{perms}

       'vixcmd'
	      type: string
	      default: value of 'vicmd'
	      Same  as	'vicmd', but takes precedence over it when running in-
	      side a graphical environment.

       'vifminfo'
	      type: set
	      default: bookmarks,bmarks
	      Controls what will be saved in the $VIFM/vifminfo file.

		 bmarks	   - named bookmarks (see :bmark command)
		 bookmarks - marks, except for special ones like '< and '>
		 cs	   - primary color scheme
		 dirstack  - directory stack (overwrites previous  stack,  un-
	      less stack of
			     current instance is empty)
		 registers - registers content
		 savedirs  - last visited directory
		 state	   - file name and dot filters and terminal multiplex-
	      ers integration
			     state
		 tabs	   - global or pane tabs
		 tui	    -  state of the user interface (sorting, number of
	      windows, quick
			     view state, active view)

		 chistory  - command line history
		 dhistory  - directory history
		 ehistory  - expression register history (see  description  of
	      Ctrl+R =
			     in command-line mode)
		 fhistory   -  history of local filter (see description of the
	      "=" normal mode
			     command)
		 mchistory - command line history of menus
		 phistory  - prompt history
		 shistory  - search history (/ and ? commands)

		 commands  - user defined commands (see :command  description)
	      (obsolete)
		 filetypes - associated programs and viewers (obsolete)
		 options   - all options that can be set with the :set command
	      (obsolete)

       'vimhelp'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      Use vim help format.

       'wildinc'
	      type: string
	      default: ""
	      A	 comma-separated  list	of  globs which defines what should be
	      completed incrementally.	Currently, it can  only	 be  :commands
	      which  are  matched  with the colon in front of their name.  For
	      such commands completion is always active and is displayed  even
	      if there is only one completion item.  Examples:

		" for all :commands
		set wildinc=:*
		" only for these two
		set wildinc=:wingo,:bmgo

	      See "Patterns" and "Globs" sections for more information on syn-
	      tax.

       'wildmenu' 'wmnu'
	      type: boolean
	      default: false
	      Controls	whether	 possible  matches of completion will be shown
	      above the command line.

       'wildstyle'
	      type: enumeration
	      default: bar
	      Picks presentation style of wild menu.  Possible values:
	       - bar   - one-line with left-to-right cursor
	       - popup - multi-line with top-to-bottom cursor

       'wordchars'
	      type: string list
	      default: "1-8,14-31,33-255" (that is all non-whitespace  charac-
	      ters)
	      Specifies	 which	characters in command-line mode should be con-
	      sidered as part of a word.  Value of the option  is  comma-sepa-
	      rated  list of ranges.  If both endpoints of a range match, sin-
	      gle endpoint is enough (e.g. "a" = "a-a").  Both	endpoints  are
	      inclusive.  There are two accepted forms: character representing
	      itself  or  number  encoding character according to ASCII table.
	      In case of ambiguous characters (dash, comma, digit) use numeric
	      form.  Accepted characters are in the range from 0 to 255.   Any
	      Unicode character with code greater than 255 is considered to be
	      part of a word.

	      The option affects Alt-D, Alt-B and Alt-F, but not Ctrl-W.  This
	      is intentionally to allow two use cases:

	       - Moving by WORDS and deletion by words.
	       - Moving by words and deletion by WORDS.

	      To get the latter use the following mapping:

		cnoremap <c-w> <a-b><a-d>

	      Also used for abbreviations.

       'wrap' type: boolean
	      default: true
	      Controls whether to wrap text in quick view.

       'wrapscan' 'ws'
	      type: boolean
	      default: true
	      Searches wrap around end of the list.

Mappings
       A  user	mapping	 like `nnoremap lhs rhs` defines a substitution of the
       left-hand-side (LHS)  with  the	right-hand-side	 (RHS)	in  the	 input
       stream.	 A regular mapping (without "nore" in :command's name) expands
       recognized sequences in the RHS, while "*noremap" mapping always inter-
       prets RHS as if no user mappings were defined  and  each	 key  has  its
       builtin	meaning.  In most cases you want to use noremap variant and if
       your RHS includes LHS, only noremap variant will work because recursion
       in a mapping is not allowed.

       In order to define a mapping determine in which mode you want to	 acti-
       vate it and use an appropriate "*noremap" :command (e.g., :nnoremap for
       a  normal  mode mapping).  RHS doesn't have to limit itself to the mode
       in which the mapping was started and can span multiple modes.

       Map arguments

       LHS of mappings can be preceded by arguments which  take	 the  form  of
       special sequences:

       <silent>
	      Postpone UI updates until RHS is completely processed.

       <wait> In  case	of builtin mapping causing conflict for a user-defined
	      mapping (e.g., `t` builtin to a partially	 typed	`ta`  user-de-
	      fined  mapping),	ignore	the builtin mapping and wait for input
	      indefinitely as opposed to default behaviour of  triggering  the
	      builtin mapping after a delay defined by 'timeoutlen'.  Example:

		nnoremap <wait> tw :set wrap!<cr>
		nnoremap <wait> tn :set number!<cr>
		nnoremap <wait> tr :set relativenumber!<cr>

       Special sequences

       Since  it's not easy to enter special characters there are several spe-
       cial sequences that can be used in place of them.  They are:

       <cr>   Enter key.

       <esc>  Escape key.

       <space>
	      Space key.

       <lt>   Less-than character (<).

       <nop>  provides a way to disable a mapping (by mapping it to <nop>).

       <bs>   Backspace key (see key conflict description below).

       <tab> <s-tab>
	      Tabulation and Shift+Tabulation keys.

       <home> <end>
	      Home/End.

       <left> <right> <up> <down>
	      Arrow keys.

       <pageup> <pagedown>
	      PageUp/PageDown.

       <del> <delete>
	      Delete key.   <del>  and	<delete>  mean	different  codes,  but
	      <delete> is more common.

       <insert>
	      Insert key.

       <s-home> <s-end>
       <s-left> <s-right> <s-up> <s-down>
       <s-pageup> <s-pagedown>
       <s-delete> <s-insert>
	       Shift  +	 one  of the keys from above, if terminal and its ter-
	       minfo supports it.

       <c-a>,<c-b>,...,<c-z>,<c-[>,<c->,<c-]>,<c-^>,<c-_>
	      Control + some key (see key conflict description below).

       <c-@> {only for *nix}
	      Control + Space.

       <a-a>,<a-b>,...,<a-z>
       <m-a>,<m-b>,...,<m-z>
       <a-0>,<a-1>,...,<a-9> {only for *nix}
       <m-0>,<m-1>,...,<m-9> {only for *nix}
	       Alt + some key.

       <a-s-a>,<a-s-b>,...,<a-s-z> {only for *nix}
       <s-a-a>,<s-a-b>,...,<s-a-z> {only for *nix}
       <m-s-a>,<m-s-b>,...,<m-s-z> {only for *nix}
       <s-m-a>,<s-m-b>,...,<s-m-z> {only for *nix}
	       Alt + Shift + some key.

       <a-c-a>,<a-c-b>,...,<a-c-z> {only for *nix}
       <m-c-a>,<m-c-b>,...,<m-c-z> {only for *nix}
	       Alt + Ctrl + some key.

       <f0> - <f63>
	      functional keys.	These also correspond to keys like <c-f1>  and
	      can be used in their place.

       <c-f1> - <c-f12>
	      functional keys with Control key pressed.

       <a-f1> - <a-f12>, <m-f1> - <m-f12>
	      functional keys with Alt key pressed.

       <s-f1> - <s-f12>
	      functional keys with Shift key pressed.

       Note that whether and how functional keys work might depend on the ter-
       minal and corresponding terminfo record.

       Note  that  due	to the way terminals process their input, several key-
       board keys might be mapped to single key code, for example:

	 - <cr> and <c-m>;

	 - <tab> and <c-i>;

	 - <c-h> and <bs> and <del>;

	 - etc.

       Most of the time they are defined consistently  and  don't  cause  sur-
       prises,	but  <c-h> and <bs> are treated differently in different envi-
       ronments (although they match each other all the time), that's why they
       correspond to different keys in vifm.  As a consequence, if you map <c-
       h> or <bs> be sure to repeat the mapping with the other one so that  it
       works  in all environments.  Alternatively, provide your mapping in one
       form and add one of the following:

	 " if mappings with <c-h> in the LHS work
	 map <c-h> <bs>
	 " if mappings with <bs> in the LHS work
	 map <bs> <c-h>

       Also sometimes neither of them might work and it's <del> key which cor-
       responds to your backspace (don't mind the name).

       Whitespace

       vifm removes whitespace characters at the beginning  and	 end  of  com-
       mands.	That's	why  you  may want to use <space> at the end of rhs in
       mappings.  For example:

	 cmap <f1> man<space>

       will put "man " in line when you hit the <f1> key in the	 command  line
       mode.

Expression syntax
       Supported expressions is a subset of what VimL provides.

       Expression syntax summary, from least to most significant:

       expr1	  expr2
		  expr2 || expr2 ..	  logical OR

       expr2	  expr3
		  expr3 && expr3 ..	  logical AND

       expr3	  expr4
		  expr4 == expr4	  equal
		  expr4 != expr4	  not equal
		  expr4 >  expr4	  greater than
		  expr4 >= expr4	  greater than or equal
		  expr4 <  expr4	  smaller than
		  expr4 <= expr4	  smaller than or equal

       expr4	  expr5
		  expr5 + expr5 ..	  number addition
		  expr5 - expr5 ..	  number subtraction

       expr5	  expr6
		  expr6 . expr6 ..	  string concatenation

       expr6	  expr7
		  - expr6		  unary minus
		  + expr6		  unary plus
		  ! expr6		  logical NOT

       expr7	  number		  number constant
		  "string"		  string constant, \ is special
		  'string'		  string constant, ' is doubled
		  &option		  option value
		  $VAR			  environment variable
		  g:var			  global variable
		  v:var			  builtin variable (read-only)
		  function(expr1, ...)	  function call
		  (expr1)		  nested expression

       ".." indicates that the operations in this level can be concatenated.

       expr1
       -----
       expr2 || expr2

       Arguments are converted to numbers before evaluation.

       Result is non-zero if at least one of arguments is non-zero.

       It's  right  associative	 and with short-circuiting, so sub-expressions
       are evaluated from left to right until result of	 whole	expression  is
       determined (i.e., until first non-zero) or end of the expression.

       expr2
       -----
       expr3 && expr3

       Arguments are converted to numbers before evaluation.

       Result is non-zero only if both arguments are non-zero.

       It's  right  associative	 and with short-circuiting, so sub-expressions
       are evaluated from left to right until result of	 whole	expression  is
       determined (i.e., until first zero) or end of the expression.

       expr3
       -----
       expr4 {cmp} expr4

       Compare	two  expr4  expressions,  resulting  in a 0 if it evaluates to
       false or 1 if it evaluates to true.

       equal		       ==
       not equal	       !=
       greater than	       >
       greater than or equal   >=
       smaller than	       <
       smaller than or equal   <=

       Examples:

	 'a' ==	 'a'	     == 1
	 'a' >	 'b'	     == 1
	 'a' ==	 'b'	     == 0
	 '2' >	 'b'	     == 0
	  2  >	 'b'	     == 1
	  2  >	 '1b'	     == 1
	  2  >	 '9b'	     == 0
	 -1  == -'1'	     == 1
	  0  ==	 '--1'	     == 1

       expr4
       -----
       expr5 + expr5 ..	    number addition expr5 - expr5 ..	  number  sub-
       traction

       Examples:

	 1 + 3 - 3	    == 1
	 1 + '2'	    == 3

       expr5
       -----
       expr6 . expr6 ..	    string concatenation

       Examples:

	 'a' . 'b'	     == 'ab'
	 'aaa' . '' . 'c'    == 'aaac'

       expr6
       -----

       - expr6		    unary minus
       + expr6		    unary plus
       ! expr6		    logical NOT

       For '-' the sign of the number is changed.
       For '+' the number is unchanged.
       For '!' non-zero becomes zero, zero becomes one.

       A String will be converted to a Number first.

       These operations can be repeated and mixed.  Examples:

	  --9		     == 9
	 ---9		     == -9
	  -+9		     == 9
	  !-9		     == 0
	  !''		     == 1
	 !'x'		     == 0
	  !!9		     == 1

       expr7
       -----

       number		    number constant
       -----

       Decimal number.	Examples:

	 0		     == 0
	 0000		     == 0
	 01		     == 1
	 123		     == 123
	 10000		     == 10000

       string
       ------
       "string"		    string constant

       Note that double quotes are used.

       A string constant accepts these special characters:
	 \b	 backspace <bs>
	 \e	 escape <esc>
	 \n	 newline
	 \r	 return <cr>
	 \t	 tab <tab>
	 \\	 backslash
	 \"	 double quote

       Examples:

	 "\"Hello,\tWorld!\""
	 "Hi,\nthere!"

       literal-string
       --------------
       'string'		    string constant

       Note that single quotes are used.

       This  string  is	 taken as it is.  No backslashes are removed or have a
       special meaning.	 The only exception is that two quotes stand  for  one
       quote.

       Examples:

	 'All\slashes\are\saved.'
	 'This string contains doubled single quotes ''here'''

       option
       ------
       &option		      option value (local one is preferred, if exists)
       &g:option	     global option value  &l:option		 local
       option value

       Examples:

	 echo 'Terminal size: '.&columns.'x'.&lines
	 if &columns > 100

       Any  valid  option name can be used here (note that "all" in ":set all"
       is a pseudo option).  See ":set options" section above.

       environment variable
       --------------------
       $VAR		     environment variable

       The String value of any environment variable.  When it is not  defined,
       the result is an empty string.

       Examples:

	 'This is my $PATH env: ' . $PATH
	 'vifmrc at ' . $MYVIFMRC . ' is used.'

       global variable
       ---------------
       g:var		     global variable

       A  typed	 storage of data for use in scripting.	Can be created/removed
       dynamically (via :let and :unlet) and used in expressions.

       builtin variable
       ----------------
       v:var		     builtin variable

       Information exposed by vifm for use in scripting.  Such	variables  are
       predefined and read-only, but not necessarily constant.

       v:count
	 count	passed to : command, 0 by default.  Can be used in mappings to
       passthe count to a different command.
       v:count1
	 same as v:count, but 1 by default.
       v:jobcount
	 number of active jobs (as can be seen in the :jobs menu).
       v:session
	 name of the current session or empty string.
       v:servername
	 See below.
       v:version
	 version of the application as an integer.   Version  `x.y.z`  becomes
       number `x*100*100 + y*100 + z`, examples:
	  - v0.14 (that is v0.14.0) is 1400 (leading zeroes omitted)
	  - v1.0.2 is 10002
	 Release  candidates aren't real releases, they report the number of a
       corresponding release.

       function call
       -------------
       function(expr1, ...)  function call

       See "Functions" section below.

       Examples:

	 "'" . filetype('.') . "'"
	 filetype('.') == 'reg'

       expression nesting
       ------------------
       (expr1)		     nested expression

       Groups any other expression of arbitrary complexity enforcing order  in
       which operators are applied.


Functions
       USAGE		     RESULT	 DESCRIPTION

       chooseopt({opt})	      String	   Queries choose parameters passed on
       startup.
       escape({string}, {chars})
			     String	  Returns  {string}   after   escaping
       {chars} in it.
       executable({expr})     Integer	  Checks whether {expr} command avail-
       able.
       expand({expr})	     String	 Expands special keywords in {expr}.
       extcached({cache}, {path}, {extcmd})
			     String	 Caches output of {extcmd} per {cache}
       and
					 {path} combination.
       filereadable({path})  Integer	 Checks whether {expr} points to a
					 non-directory that can be read.
       filetype({file} [, {resolve}])
			     String	 Returns file type from position/path.
       fnameescape({expr})   String	 Escapes {expr} for use in a :command.
       getpanetype()	     String	 Returns type of current pane.
       has({property})	     Integer	 Checks whether	 instance  has	{prop-
       erty}.
       input({prompt} [, {initial} [, {completion}]])
			     String	 Prompts user for an input on command-
       line.
       layoutis({type})	      Integer	   Checks  whether  layout  is of type
       {type}.
       paneisat({loc})	     Integer	 Checks whether	 current  pane	is  at
       {loc}.
       selected()	      Integer	  Returns number of currently selected
       files.
       system({command})     String	 Executes shell	 command  and  returns
       its output.
       tabpagenr([{arg}])     Integer	   Returns  number  of current or last
       tab.
       term({command})	     String	 Like system(),	 but  for  interactive
       commands.

       chooseopt({opt})

       Retrieves values of options related to file choosing.  {opt} can be one
       of:
	   files      returns argument of --choose-files or empty string
	   dir	      returns argument of --choose-dir or empty string
	   cmd	      returns argument of --on-choose or empty string
	   delimiter  returns argument of --delimiter or the default one (\n)

       escape({string},{chars})

       Escapes	all occurrences of {chars} in the {string} by prepending slash
       (``) to them.  Note that the slash itself is not escaped unless it  ap-
       pears in {chars}.

       executable({expr})

       If {expr} is absolute or relative path, checks whether path destination
       exists  and  refers  to an executable, otherwise checks whether command
       named {expr} is present in directories listed  in  $PATH.   Checks  for
       various	executable  extensions	on Windows.  Returns boolean value de-
       scribing result of the check.

       Example:

	 " use custom default viewer script if it's available and installed
	 " in predefined system directory, otherwise try to find it elsewhere
	 if executable('/usr/local/bin/defviewer')
	     fileview * /usr/local/bin/defviewer %c
	 else
	     if executable('defviewer')
		 fileview * defviewer %c
	     endif
	 endif

       expand({expr})

       Expands environment variables and macros in  {expr}  (in	 this  order).
       Returns a string.  See "Command macros" section above.

       Examples:

	 " percent sign
	 :echo expand('%%')
	 " the last part of directory name of the other pane
	 :echo expand('%D:t')
	 " $PATH environment variable (same as `:echo $PATH`)
	 :echo expand('$PATH')
	 " full path to the current file with backslashes
	 :echo expand('%c:p:gs!/!\!')

       extcached({cache}, {path}, {extcmd})

       Caches  value of {extcmd} external command automatically updating it as
       necessary based on monitoring change date of a {path}.	The  cache  is
       invalidated  when  file or its meta-data is updated.  A single path can
       have multiple caches associated with it.

       {path} value is normalized, but symbolic links in it aren't resolved.

       Example:

	 " display number and size of blocks actually used by a file or directory
	 set statusline+=" Uses: %{ extcached('uses',
					    \ expand('%c'),
					    \ expand('stat --format=%%bx%%B %c')) }"

       filereadable({path})

       Checks whether {path} exists and refers to a  non-directory  entry  and
       its permissions allow reading.  Returns boolean value describing result
       of the check.

       filetype({file} [, {resolve}])

       Checks type of a view's entry or of a file specified by its path.

       Parameter {file} can be of the following forms:
	- '.' to get type of file under the cursor in the active pane
	-  numerical value base 1 to get type of file on specified line number
       (only if there are no characters other than "+-0123456789")
	- a path (prepend "./" to force interpretation of a number or '.' as a
       path)

       Optional parameter {resolve} is treated	as  a  boolean	and  specifies
       whether symbolic links should be resolved.

       The  result  is	a string, which represents file type and is one of the
       list:
	   exe	   executables
	   reg	   regular files
	   link	   symbolic links
	   broken  broken symbolic links (appears only when resolving)
	   dir	   directories
	   char	   character devices
	   block   block devices
	   fifo	   pipes
	   sock	   *nix domain sockets
	   ?	   unknown file type (should not normally happen) or
		   non-file (pseudo-entries in compare view)

       The result can also be an empty string in case of invalid argument.

       fnameescape({expr})

       Escapes parameter to make it suitable for use as an argument of a :com-
       mand.  List of escaped characters includes %, which is doubled.

       Usage example:

	 " navigate to most recently modified file in current directory
	 execute 'goto' fnameescape(system('ls -t | head -1'))

       getpanetype()

       Retrieves string describing type of current pane.  Possible return val-
       ues:
	   regular	regular file listing of some directory
	   custom	custom file list (%u)
	   very-custom	very custom file list (%U)
	   tree		tree view
	   compare	compare view

       has({property})

       Allows examining internal parameters from scripts to  e.g.  figure  out
       environment  in which application is running.  Returns 1 if property is
       true/present, otherwise 0 is returned.  Currently the following proper-
       ties are supported (anything else will yield 0):
	   unix	 runs in *nix-like environment (including Cygwin)
	   win	 runs on Windows
	   #*	 whether particular Lua handler exists

       Usage example:

	 " skip user/group on Windows
	 if !has('win')
	     let $RIGHTS = '%10u:%-7g '
	 endif

	 execute 'set' 'statusline="  %t%= %A '.$RIGHTS.'%15E %20d  "'

       input({prompt} [, {initial} [, {completion}]])

       Creates a command-line prompt to obtain user's  input.	Initial	 value
       can be supplied as an optional second parameter, otherwise empty string
       is used.

       Optional third parameter specifies kind of completion, which can be one
       of:
	   dir	 paths to directories
	   file	 paths to files and directories
	   ""	 (empty string, default) no completion

       Note that behaviour differs from Vim where executing a mapping like
	 nnoremap j :echo input('text: ')<cr>input
       leaves  you in a prompt mode with "input" typed in.  Vifm will wait for
       leaving the prompt and then continue executing the mapping.

       Usage example:

	 nnoremap ,m : let $DIR_NAME = input('mkdir: ', '', 'dir')
		    \| if $DIR_NAME != ''
		    \|	   execute 'mkdir' fnameescape($DIR_NAME)
		    \| endif<cr>

       layoutis({type})

       Checks whether current interface layout is {type} or not, where	{type}
       can be:
	   only	   single-pane mode
	   split   double-pane mode (either vertical or horizontal split)
	   vsplit  vertical split (left and right panes)
	   hsplit  horizontal split (top and bottom panes)

       Usage example:

	 " automatically split vertically before enabling preview
	 :nnoremap w :if layoutis('only') | vsplit | endif | view!<cr>

       paneisat({loc})

       Checks whether position of active pane in current layout matches one of
       the following locations:
	   top	   pane reaches top border
	   bottom  pane reaches bottom border
	   left	   pane reaches left border
	   right   pane reaches right border

       selected()

       Retrieves number of files selected in the active pane.

       system({command})

       Runs  the command in shell and returns its output (joined standard out-
       put and standard error streams).	 All trailing newline  characters  are
       stripped	 to allow easy appending to command output.  Ctrl-C should in-
       terrupt the command.

       Use this function to consume output of external commands that don't re-
       quire user interaction and term() for interactive  commands  that  make
       use of terminal and are capable of handling stream redirection.

       Usage example:

	 " command to enter .git/ directory of git-repository (when ran inside one)
	 command! cdgit :execute 'cd' fnameescape(system('git rev-parse --git-dir'))

       tabpagenr([{arg}])

       When  called  without arguments returns number of current tab page base
       one.

       When called with "$" as an argument returns number of the last tab page
       base one, which is the same as number of tabs.

       term({command})

       Same as system() function, but user interface is	 shutdown  during  the
       execution  of  the  command, which makes sure that external interactive
       applications won't affect the way terminal is used by vifm.

       Usage example:

	 " command to change directory by picking it via fzf
	 command! fzfcd :execute 'cd'
			       \ fnameescape(term('find -type d | fzf 2> /dev/tty'))

Menus and dialogs
       When navigating to some path from a menu there is a difference  in  the
       end location depending on whether the path has a trailing slash.	 Files
       normally don't have trailing slashes so "file/" won't work.  In case of
       directories there are two options: navigate to a directory or inside of
       it.   To	 allow both use cases, the first action is taken for "dir" and
       the second one for "dir/".

       Menu commands

       :range navigate to a menu line.

						:chistory

       :chi[story]
	      display menu of saved menus.  See "Menus	and  dialogs"  section
	      for controls, also see "Menus history" section.

						:colder

       :col[der]
	      load  an older navigation menu if there is one.  See also "Menus
	      history" section.

						:cnewer

       :cnew[er]
	      load a newer navigation menu if there is one.  See  also	"Menus
	      history" section.

						:find

       :fin[d]
	      the  behaviour  matches  that  of	 non-menu :find except that no
	      range is accepted.  If active view  contained  selection	before
	      entering menu mode, the command takes it into account.

						:grep

       :gr[ep]
	      the  behaviour  matches  that  of	 non-menu :grep except that no
	      range is accepted.  If active view  contained  selection	before
	      entering menu mode, the command takes it into account.

       :exi[t][!]
       :q[uit][!]
       :x[it][!]
	      leave the menu mode.

       :noh[lsearch]
	      reset search match highlighting.

       :w[rite] {path}
	      write all menu lines into the file specified by {path}.

       Common keys of all menus and dialogs


       j, Ctrl-N
	      move the cursor down.

       k, Ctrl-P
	      move the cursor up.

       Enter  select and usually close menu/dialog.

       Ctrl-L redraw menu/dialog.

       Escape, Ctrl-C
       ZZ, ZQ
       q
	      close menu/dialog.


       Common keys of all menus

       Ctrl-B, Ctrl-F
       Ctrl-D, Ctrl-U
       Ctrl-E, Ctrl-Y
       /, ?
       n, N
       [count]G, [count]gg
       H, M, L
       zb, zt, zz
	      these keys have the same meaning as in normal mode.


       [count]zh
	      scroll  menu  items  [count]  characters	(1  by default) to the
	      right.

       [count]zl
	      scroll menu items [count] characters (1 by default) to the left.

       zH     scroll menu items half the screen width to the right.

       zL     scroll menu items half the screen width to the left.

       :      enter command line mode for menus.

       b      interpret content of the menu as a list of paths and use	it  to
	      create  custom view in place of the previously active pane.  See
	      "Custom views" section below.

       B      same as above, but create an unsorted view.

       v      load menu content into quickfix list of an editor (Vim  compati-
	      ble by assumption) or, if the list doesn't have separators after
	      file names (colons), open each line as a file name.


       Navigation menus

       This applies to the following menus:
	- :bmarks, :bmgo
	- :find
	- :grep
	- :locate
	- user menu with navigation (%M macro)


       gf     navigate	previously  active  view  to  currently selected item.
	      Leaves menu mode except for :grep menu.  Pressing Enter or l has
	      the same effect.

       e      open selected path in an editor, stays in menu mode.

       c      leave menu preserving file selection and insert file name	 after
	      :! in command-line mode.	Does nothing in :bmarks and :bmgo.

       Note that each of these menus can have additional keys, see below.

       History menus (:history *)
       ==========================


       Command-line history menu

       Enter, l
	      execute  the item as a command-line command, search query or lo-
	      cal filter.

       c      leave the menu preserving file selection	and  insert  the  item
	      into the command-line of appropriate kind.


       Directory history menu

       Enter, l
	      navigate into the selected directory.


       Menu commands history menu

       Enter, l
	      execute command without leaving the menu.

       c      insert menu item into command-line for editing.


       Other menus
       ===========

       Apropos (:apropos) menu

       Enter, l
	      run man on a given topic.	 Menu won't be closed automatically to
	      allow viewing several pages one by one.


       Bookmarks (:bmarks, :bmgo) menu

       Enter, l
	      navigate to the selected bookmark.

       dd     remove bookmark under the cursor.

       See above for "gf" and "e" keys.

       Command-line mode abbreviations (:cabbrev) menu

       dd     remove abbreviation under the cursor.


       Color scheme (:colorscheme) menu

       Enter, l
	      apply  selected colorscheme as if ":colorscheme <name>" was exe-
	      cuted on the command-line.


       Commands (:command) menu

       Enter, l
	      execute the command with empty arguments (%a macro).

       dd     remove command under the cursor.

       c      leave menu preserving file selection and insert right-hand  side
	      of selected command into the command-line.


       Directory stack (:dirs) menu

       Enter, l
	      rotate the stack to put selected directory pair at the top.


       File (:file) menu

       Commands	 from  vifmrc or typed on the command-line are displayed above
       an empty line if it's present.  All commands below the empty line  come
       from .desktop files.

       Commands detected as available have "[present]" to the left of them.


       Enter, l
	      run  selected  command (regardless whether it was detected to be
	      present or not).

       c      leave menu preserving file selection and insert command after :!
	      in the command-line mode.


       Grep (:grep) menu

       Enter, l
	      open file in an editor set by  'vicmd'  at  given	 line  number.
	      Menu  won't  be  closed automatically to allow viewing more than
	      one result.


       See above for "gf", "e" and "c" keys.

       Jobs (:jobs) menu

       dd     request cancellation of job under the cursor.  The job won't  be
	      removed from the list, but marked as being cancelled (if cancel-
	      lation  was  successfully	 requested).  A message will pop up if
	      the job has already stopped.  Note that  on  Windows  cancelling
	      external programs like this might not work, because their parent
	      shell doesn't have any windows.

       e      display  errors of selected job if any were collected.  They are
	      displayed in a new menu, but you can  return  to	jobs  menu  by
	      pressing h.

       r      reload the list of jobs.


       Marks (:marks) menu

       Enter, l
	      navigate to selected mark.

       dd     remove mark under the cursor.


       Media (:media) menu

       Enter, l
	      behaviour is different for different kinds of lines:
	       - mount an unmounted device
	       - navigate to the first mount point of a mounted device
	       - navigate to a mount point
	       - do nothing for "not mounted" or an empty line

       r      reload the list.

       m      mount/unmount device (cursor should be positioned on lines under
	      device information).

       [      put cursor on the previous device.

       ]      put cursor on the next device.


       Menus history (:chistory) menu

       Enter, l
	      load selected menu.


       Plugins (:plugins) menu

       e      display  log  messages of selected plugin if any were collected.
	      They are displayed in a new menu, but you can return to  plugins
	      menu by pressing h.

       gf     navigate previously active view to the location of selected plu-
	      gin.  Leaves the menu mode.


       Trash (:lstrash) menu

       r      restore a file from the trash to its original location.

       dd     delete file under the cursor.


       Trashes (:trashes) menu

       Enter, l
	      navigate into current trash directory.

       dd     start emptying selected trash in background.


       Undolist (:undolist) menu

       r      reset undo position to group under the cursor.


       User menu without navigation (%m macro)

       c      leave menu preserving file selection and insert whole line after
	      :! in command-line mode.


       Volumes (:volumes) menu
       only for MS-Windows

       Enter, l
	      navigate into the root of the selected drive.


       Dialog-specific operations
       ==========================

       Attributes (permissions or properties) dialog

       h, Space
	      check/uncheck.

       q      close the dialog.

       r      (*nix only) (un)set all read bits.

       w      (*nix only) (un)set all write bits.

       x      (*nix only) (un)set all execute bits.

       s      (*nix only) (un)set all special (SetUID, SetGID, Sticky) bits.

       e      (*nix only) (un)set recursion (for directories only).


       Possible item states:

       - * - checked flag.

       - X - selected files have inconsistent value of this flag.

       - d  (*nix only) - (only for execute flags) means u-x+X, g-x+X or o-x+X
	 argument for the chmod program.  If you're not on OS X	 and  want  to
	 remove execute permission bit from all files, but preserve it for di-
	 rectories,  set  all execute flags to 'd' and check 'Set Recursively'
	 flag.

       Fileinfo (Ctrl-G) dialog

       Enter, q
	      close the dialog.


       Sort (:sort) dialog

       h, Space
	      switch ascending/descending order.

       q      close the dialog.


       There is also a shortcut per sorting key (drawn on the dialog).


Menus history
       Menus are often used to present results of operations (like finding  or
       grepping files).	 Once closed they can be recreated by repeating a com-
       mand, but it might be inconvenient (require changing directory, finding
       the command and possibly finding position in a menu) and time consuming
       to  re-run  the	operation.  To make referring to older menus possible,
       vifm stores up to 25 last such menus and provides means	for  recalling
       them using familiar set of Vim commands.

       As  already  hinted  above,  this  doesn't  apply to every menu because
       things like :version or :commands rely  solely  on  internal  data  and
       don't  need  to	be  saved.   Only menus that are derived from external
       sources and support navigation (like via gf) are remembered.

       Navigating through history

       Re-opening the last viewed menu of relevant type	 is  done  by  running
       :copen  command.	  Once	opened :colder can be used to view older menus
       and :cnewer to view newer ones.

       Closing a menu after moving through the history remembers the  position
       such that running :copen again will open the last viewed menu and allow
       one to continue exploring history in both directions.

       The  history always contains menus sorted from oldest to newest.	 After
       opening more than 25 menus the oldest one is likely  to	be  forgotten.
       It's  not  guaranteed to happen because after viewing an older menu new
       entry replaces all more recent ones.  As an example, assume the history
       looks like this:

	1. :find 1
	2. :find 2
	...
       23. :find 23 (current element)
       24. :find 24
       25. :find 25

       Running `:find 11` results in:

	1. :find 1
	2. :find 2
	...
       23. :find 23
       24. :find 26 (current element)
       25. None

       For convenience, :colder and :cnewer can be used any time you're	 in  a
       menu,  not  just	 after :copen.	:cnewer will work only if current menu
       can't be saved and you've moved back in menus history  before.	Behav-
       iour of :colder is like this:
	- if current menu can be stashed, behave as :quit, :copen, :colder se-
       quence (current menu is stashed the same way as described above)
	- if current menu can't be stashed, behave as :quit, :copen sequence

       Viewing history

       In  order  to  avoid  enumerating  menus	 looking for the matching one,
       :chistory command can be used to get an overview of saved menus,	 maybe
       search for one and then open it.	 The command is also available in menu
       mode.

       Related topics

       Commands: :chistory, :copen Menu commands: :chistory, :colder, :cnewer

Custom views
       Definition

       Normally,  file	views present a list of files from a single directory,
       but sometimes it's useful to populate them with	files  from  unrelated
       locations.  This is what custom views are mainly for.

       Presentation

       Custom  views  are  still  related to the directory they were in before
       custom list was loaded.	Path to that  directory	 (original  directory)
       can be seen in the title of a custom view.

       Files  in  the  same  directory have to be named differently but custom
       views are free from this constraint,  hence  seeing  file  names	 alone
       might  be  rather confusing.  In order to give an idea where files come
       from paths relative to the original directory of	 the  view  are	 used,
       when that's not possible full paths are shown.

       Custom views normally don't contain any inexistent files.

       Navigation/exiting

       Navigation in custom views somewhat differs compared to regular views.

       gf  - acts similar to gf on symbolic links and navigates to the file at
       its real
	    location.

       h - goes to the closest parent node in the tree view or terminates  the
       custom
	   view returning to the original directory.

       gh - terminates the custom view returning to the original directory.

       Going  to  the  parent directory in other ways (whether by opening ".."
       entry or executing `:cd ..`) also causes termination and return to  the
       original location.

       All  other  ways	 of  changing  location	 (e.g., marks, bookmarks, :cd,
       :sync) also cause termination of the custom view.

       History

       Custom list exists only while it's visible, once left one can't	return
       to it, so there is no traces of it in any history.

       Filters

       Only  local  filter affects contents of the view.  This is intentional.
       Presumably, if one loads a particular list, precisely that list	should
       be displayed (except for inexistent paths, which are ignored).

       Search

       Although	 directory  names are visible in listing, they are not search-
       able.  Only file names are taken into account (might be changed in  the
       future, searching whole lines seems quite reasonable).

       Sorting

       Contrary	 to search sorting by name works on whole visible part of file
       path.

       Highlight

       Whole file name is highlighted as one entity, even if there are	direc-
       tory elements.

       Updates

       Reloads	can  occur,  though  they are not automatic due to files being
       scattered among different places.  On a reload inexistent files are re-
       moved and meta-data of all other files is updated.

       Once custom view forgets about the file, it won't add it back  even  if
       it's created again.  So not seeing file previously affected by an oper-
       ation which was later undone is normal.

       Operations

       All  operations that add files are forbidden for custom views.  For ex-
       ample, moving/copying/putting files into a custom  view	doesn't	 work,
       because that's not a real file system location.

       On  the	other  hand,  operations  that use files of a custom view as a
       source (e.g., yanking, copying, moving file from a custom  view,	 dele-
       tion) and operations that modify names are all allowed.

Compare views
       Kinds

       :compare can produce four different results depending on arguments:
	- single compare view ("ofone" and either "listall" or "listdups");
	- single custom view ("ofone" and "listunique");
	- two compare views ("ofboth" and either "listall" or "listdups");
	- two custom views ("ofboth" and "listunique").

       The  first two display files of a single file system tree.  Here dupli-
       cates are files that have at least one copy  in	the  same  tree.   The
       other two kinds of operation compare two trees, in which duplicates are
       files that are found in both trees.

       Lists of unique files are presented in custom views because there is no
       file  grouping  to  preserve  as all file ids are guaranteed to be dis-
       tinct.  See "Custom views" section.

       Creation

       Arguments passed to :compare form seven categories each	with  its  own
       prefix and is responsible for particular property of the operation.

       Which files to compare:
	- ofboth - compares files of two panes against each other;
	- ofone	 - compares files of the same directory.

       How files are compared:
	- byname     - by their name only;
	- bysize     - only by their size;
	-  bycontents  - by data they contain (combination of size and hash of
       small chunk of contents is used as first approximation, so don't	 worry
       too much about large files; non-regular files like pipes are assumed to
       be empty).

       Which files to display:
	- listall    - all files;
	- listunique - unique files only;
	- listdups   - only duplicated files.

       How results are grouped (has no effect if "ofone" specified):
	-  groupids   - files considered identical are always adjacent in out-
       put;
	- grouppaths - file system ordering is preferred  (this	 also  enables
       displaying identically named files as mismatches).

       Which files to omit:
	- skipempty - ignore empty files.

       Comparison tweaks:
	- withicase - ignore case when comparing file names/paths;
	- withrcase - respect case when comparing file names/paths.

       Which results to show (has no effect for single pane comparison):
	- showidentical	  - control visibility of identical files;
	- showdifferent	  - control visibility of changed files;
	- showuniqueleft  - control visibility of unique top/left files;
	- showuniqueright - control visibility of unique bottom/right files.

       Each argument can appear multiple times, the rightmost one of the group
       defines	the  behaviour.	 All arguments alter default behaviour instead
       of substituting it.

       When neither "withicase" nor "withrcase" is specified, case depends  on
       the running operating system and the file system on which the files are
       located.

       Exiting

       Comparing  two  views  results  in them entering a special state imple-
       mented on top of custom views.  Both views leave this state when either
       of them stops being custom.  Custom views terminate on  changing	 to  a
       different  location  or	as  a result of a command like :regular, going
       into the parent directory (like with h key or `:cd ..` command) returns
       to a regular state without changing the location.  See  "Custom	views"
       section for more details.

       Examples

       The defaults correspond to probably the most common use case of compar-
       ing  files  in  two  trees with grouping by paths, so the following are
       equivalent:

	 :compare
	 :compare bycontents grouppaths
	 :compare bycontents listall ofboth grouppaths
	 :compare showidentical showdifferent showuniqueleft showuniqueright

       Another use case is to find duplicates in the current sub-tree:

	 :compare listdups ofone

       The following command lists files that are unique to each pane:

	 :compare listunique

       Look

       The view can't switch to ls-like view as it's unable to	display	 diff-
       like data.

       Comparison  views  have	second column displaying id of the file, files
       with the same id are considered to be equal.  The view columns configu-
       ration is predefined.

       The status bar displays only the initial result of the  comparison  and
       can be out of date.

       Behaviour

       When  two  views	 are  being compared against one another the following
       changes to the regular behaviour apply:
	- views are scrolled synchronously (as if 'scrollbind' was set);
	- views' cursors are synchronized;
	- local filtering is disabled (its results wouldn't be meaningful);
	- zd excludes groups of adjacent identical files, 1zd gives usual  be-
       haviour;
	- sorting is permanently disabled (ordering is fixed);
	- removed files hide their counter pairs;
	- exiting one of the views terminates the other immediately;
	- renaming files isn't blocked, but isn't taken into account and might
       require regeneration of comparison;
	-  entries  which indicate absence of equivalent file have empty names
       and can be matched as such;
	- when unique files of both views are  listed,	custom	views  can  be
       empty,  this absence of unique files is stated clearly.

       One  compare view has similar properties (those that are applicable for
       single pane).

       Files are gathered in this way:
	- recursively starting at current location of the view;
	- dot files are excluded if view hides them at the moment of  compari-
       son,  file name filters are obeyed as well so you end up comparing what
       you see;
	- directories are not taken into account;
	- symbolic links to directories are ignored.

Startup
       On startup vifm determines several variables that are used during  exe-
       cution.	They are determined in the order they appear below.

       On  *nix	 systems $HOME is normally present and used as is.  On Windows
       systems vifm tries to find correct home directory in the following  or-
       der:
	- $HOME variable;
	- $USERPROFILE variable (on Windows only);
	-  a  combination  of  $HOMEDRIVE  and $HOMEPATH variables (on Windows
       only).

       vifm tries to find correct configuration directory by checking the fol-
       lowing places:
	- $VIFM variable;
	- parent directory of the executable file (on Windows only);
	- $HOME/.vifm directory;
	- $APPDATA/Vifm directory (on Windows only);
	- $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vifm directory;
	- $HOME/.config/vifm directory.

       vifm tries to find correct configuration file by checking the following
       places:
	- $MYVIFMRC variable;
	- vifmrc in parent directory of the executable file (on Windows only);
	- $VIFM/vifmrc file.

Configure
       See "Startup" section above for the explanations	 on  $VIFM  and	 $MYV-
       IFMRC.

       The  vifmrc  file  contains  commands  that  will  be  executed on vifm
       startup.	 There are two such files: global and local.  Global one is at
       {prefix}/etc/vifm/vifmrc, see $MYVIFMRC variable	 description  for  the
       search  algorithm  used	to find local vifmrc.  Global vifmrc is loaded
       before the local one, so that the later one can redefine anything  con-
       figured globally.

       Use vifmrc to set settings, mappings, filetypes etc.  To use multi line
       commands	 precede  each next line with a slash (whitespace before slash
       is ignored, but all spaces at the end of the lines are saved).  For ex-
       ample:

	 set
	     \smartcase

       equals "setsmartcase".  When

	 set<space here>
	     \ smartcase

       equals "set  smartcase".

       The $VIFM/vifminfo file contains generic state of the application.  You
       can control what is stored in vifminfo by  setting  'vifminfo'  option.
       Vifm always writes this file on exit unless 'vifminfo' option is empty.
       Marks,  bookmarks, commands, histories, filetypes, fileviewers and reg-
       isters in the file are merged with vifm configuration (which has bigger
       priority).

       Generally, runtime configuration has bigger  priority  during  merging,
       but there are some exceptions:

	 - directory  stack stored in the file is not overwritten unless some-
	   thing is changed in vifm instance that performs merge;

	 - each mark or bookmark is marked with a  timestamp,  so  that	 newer
	   value is not overwritten by older one, thus no matter from where it
	   comes, the newer one wins;

	 - all	histories  are	marked	with timestamps on storing, this means
	   that last instance to quit puts its elements on top of the list;

	 - tabs are merged only if both current instance and stored state con-
	   tain exactly one tab of any kind.

       The $VIFM/scripts directory can contain shell scripts.	vifm  modifies
       its  PATH  environment  variable	 to let user run those scripts without
       specifying full path.  All subdirectories of the $VIFM/scripts will  be
       added  to  PATH too.  Script in a subdirectory overlaps script with the
       same name in all its parent directories.

       The $VIFM/colors/  and  {prefix}/etc/vifm/colors/  directories  contain
       color  schemes.	Available color schemes are searched in that order, so
       on name conflict the one in $VIFM/colors/ wins.

       Each color scheme should have ".vifm" extension.	 This wasn't the  case
       before and for this reason the following rules apply during lookup:

	 - if  there  is  no  file with .vifm extension, all regular files are
	   listed;

	 - otherwise only files with .vifm extension are listed (with the  ex-
	   tension being truncated).

Sessions
       Sessions	 provide  a way to have multiple persistent runtime configura-
       tions.  Think of them as second-level vifminfo files in addition to the
       first-level one used by all sessions.  In other words,  they  aren't  a
       replacement  for vifminfo file that exists without sessions, but an ad-
       dition to it.  One can empty 'vifminfo' option and rely solely on  ses-
       sions,  but  in	practice  one might want to share some state among in-
       stances in different sessions or have an	 "out-of-sessions"  state  for
       tasks that don't deserve a session of their own.

       This  leads  to	a  two-level structure where data in session files has
       higher priority than data in vifminfo files (where  this	 makes	sense)
       following the same rules that merging of vifminfo file obeys.  In addi-
       tion to that, history items from session files are never ordered before
       history items from vifminfo file.

       Format

       Sessions	 have the format of vifminfo files, they do not consist of se-
       quence of command-line commands and are not meant  to  be  sourced  via
       :source command.

       Storage and naming

       `$VIFM/sessions/`  directory  serves as a storage for sessions.	Conse-
       quently names should be valid filenames.	 The structure of the  storage
       is  flat	 meaning that there are no subdirectories, that's why names of
       sessions can't contain slashes.

       Usage model

       Contrary to Vim, vifm automates basic management of sessions.  You  can
       start, switch, stop or delete a session using builtin means.

       Current	session is saved at the same time vifminfo is saved (on normal
       exits or explicitly on :write command) and right	 before	 switching  to
       another	session.   To avoid saving in those cases use :session command
       to detach (without saving) from a session before proceeding.

       Related topics

       Commands: :session, :delsession
       Options: 'sessionoptions'
       Variables: v:session

Automatic FUSE mounts
       vifm has a builtin support of automated FUSE file system mounts.	 It is
       implemented using file associations  mechanism.	 To  enable  automated
       mounts, one needs to use a specially formatted program line in filetype
       or  filextype  commands.	  These	 use special macros, which differ from
       macros in commands unrelated to FUSE.  Currently three formats are sup-
       ported:

       1) FUSE_MOUNT This format should be used in case when  all  information
       needed  for  mounting all files of a particular type is the same.  E.g.
       mounting of tar files don't require any file specific options.

       Format line:
	 FUSE_MOUNT|mounter %SOURCE_FILE %DESTINATION_DIR [%FOREGROUND]

       Example filetype command:

	 :filetype FUSE_MOUNT|fuse-zip %SOURCE_FILE %DESTINATION_DIR

       2) FUSE_MOUNT2 This format allows one to use specially formatted	 files
       to perform mounting and is useful for mounting remotes, for example re-
       mote file systems over ftp or ssh.

       Format line:
	 FUSE_MOUNT2|mounter %PARAM %DESTINATION_DIR [%FOREGROUND]

       Example filetype command:

	 :filetype *.ssh FUSE_MOUNT2|sshfs %PARAM %DESTINATION_DIR

       Example file content:

	 root@127.0.0.1:/

       3) FUSE_MOUNT3

       This  format  is equivalent to FUSE_MOUNT, but omits unmounting.	 It is
       useful for cases, when unmounting isn't needed, like when using AVFS.

       Example :filetype command:

	 :filetype *.tar,*.tar.bz2,*.tbz2,*.tgz,*.tar.gz,*.tar.xz,*.txz,*.deb
	      \ {Mount with avfs}
	      \ FUSE_MOUNT3|mount-avfs %DESTINATION_DIR %SOURCE_FILE

       Example `mount-avfs` helper script:

	 #!/bin/sh

	 dest=$1
	 file=$2

	 rmdir "$dest"
	 ln -s "$HOME/.avfs$file#/" "$dest"

       All % macros are expanded by vifm at runtime  and  have	the  following
       meaning:
	 - %SOURCE_FILE is replaced by full path to selected file;
	 - %DESTINATION_DIR is replaced by full path to mount directory, which
       is created by vifm basing on the value of 'fusehome' option;
	 -  %PARAM  value  is filled from the first line of file (whole line),
       though in the future it can be changed to whole file content;
	 - %FOREGROUND means that you want to run mount command as  a  regular
       command	(required  to  be able to provide input for communication with
       mounter in interactive way).

       %FOREGROUND is an optional macro.  Other macros are not mandatory,  but
       mount commands likely won't work without them.

       %CLEAR  is  obsolete name of %FOREGROUND, which is still supported, but
       might be removed in future.  Its use is discouraged.

       Unlike macros elsewhere, these are recognized only if  they  appear  at
       the  end	 of  a command or are followed by a space.  There is no way to
       escape % either.	 These are historical limitations, which might be  ad-
       dressed in the future.

       The  mounted  FUSE  file systems will be automatically unmounted in two
       cases:

	 - when vifm quits (with ZZ, :q, etc. or when killed by signal);

	 - when you explicitly leave mount point going up to its parent direc-
	   tory (with h, Enter on "../" or ":cd ..") and other pane is not  in
	   the same directory or its child directories.

View look
       vifm supports displaying of file list view in two different ways:

	 - in  a  table	 mode,	when  multiple columns can be set using 'view-
	   columns' option (see "Column view" section below for details);

	 - in a multicolumn list manner which looks almost like `ls  -x`  com-
	   mand output (see "ls-like view" section below for details).

       The  look is local for each view and can be chosen by changing value of
       the 'lsview' boolean option.

       Depending on view look some of keys change their meaning to allow  more
       natural cursor moving.  This concerns mainly h, j, k, l and other simi-
       lar navigation keys.

       Also  some of options can be ignored if they don't affect view display-
       ing in selected look.  For example value of 'viewcolumns' when 'lsview'
       is set.

ls-like view
       When this view look is enabled by setting 'lsview' option on, vifm will
       display files in multiple columns.  Number of columns  depends  on  the
       length  of  the	longest	 file name present in current directory of the
       view.  Whole file list is automatically reflowed on  directory  change,
       terminal or view resize.

       View looks close to output of `ls -x` command, so files are listed left
       to right in rows.

       In  this	 mode file manipulation commands (e.g. d) don't work line-wise
       like they do in Vim, since such operations would be uncommon  for  file
       manipulation  tasks.   Thus,  for  example, dd will remove only current
       file.

       By default the view is filled by lines, 'lsoptions' can be used to  get
       filling by columns.

       Note that tree-view and compare view inhibit ls-like view.

Column view
       View columns are described by a comma-separated list of column descrip-
       tions, each of which has the following format
	   [  '-'  |  '*' ] [ fw ( [ '.' tw ] | '%' ) ] '{' type | literal '}'
       '.'{0,3}
       where fw stands for full width, tw stands for text width, bar is	 logi-
       cal  or,	 square brackets denote optional parts and curly braces define
       range of repetitions for a symbol that precedes them.

       So it basically consists of four parts:
	1. Optional alignment specifier
	2. Optional width specifier
	3. Mandatory column name
	4. Optional cropping specifier

       Alignment specifier

       It's an optional minus or asterisk sign as  the	first  symbol  of  the
       string.

       Specifies type of text alignment within a column.  Three types are sup-
       ported:

       - left align

	   set viewcolumns=-{name}

       - right align (default)

	   set viewcolumns={name}

       - middle align

	 It's  like  left alignment, but when the text is bigger than the col-
	 umn, it is cut in the middle (so the start and the end of  the	 field
	 are always visible).

	   set viewcolumns=^{name}

       - dynamic align

	 It's  like  left alignment, but when the text is bigger than the col-
	 umn, the alignment is made at the right (so the part of the field  is
	 always visible).

	   set viewcolumns=*{name}

       Width specifier

       It's  a	number	followed  by  a	 percent sign, two numbers (second one
       should be less than or equal to the first one) separated with a dot  or
       a single number.

       Specifies column width and its units. There are three size types:

       - absolute size - column width is specified in characters

	   set viewcolumns=-100{name},20.15{ext}

	 results  in  two  columns  with  lengths of 100 and 20 and a reserved
	 space of five characters on the left of second column.

       - relative (percent) size - column width is specified  in  percents  of
	 view width

	   set viewcolumns=-80%{name},15%{ext},5%{mtime}

	 results  in three columns with lengths of 80/100, 15/100 and 5/100 of
	 view width.

       - auto size (default) - column width is automatically determined

	   set viewcolumns=-{name},{ext},{mtime}

	 results in three columns with length of  one  third  of  view	width.
	 There	is no size adjustment to content, since it will slow down ren-
	 dering.

       Columns of different sizing types can be	 freely	 mixed	in  one	 view.
       Though  sometimes  some	of columns can be seen partly or be completely
       invisible if there is not enough space to display them.

       Column contents

       This is usually a sorting key surrounded with curly braces, e.g.

	 {name},{ext},{mtime}

       {name} and {iname} types are the same and are both present for  consis-
       tency with 'sort' option.

       The following column types don't have corresponding sorting keys:

	 - {root}      -  display  name without extension (as a complement for
	   {ext})

	 - {fileroot} - display name without extension for anything except for
	   directories and symbolic links to directories (as a complement  for
	   {fileext})

       Empty  curly braces ({}) are replaced with the default secondary column
       for primary sort key.  So after the next command view will be displayed
       almost as if 'viewcolumns' was empty, but adding ellipsis for long file
       names:

	 set viewcolumns=-{name}..,6{}.

       The last kind of column value is a string literal.  The literal is used
       as a column value for every row.	 The syntax is "{#literal}", examples:

	 " double-character pseudo-padding on both sides
	 set viewcolumns='2{#},*{name}..,{},2{#}'
	 " pseudo-border between columns
	 set viewcolumns='*{name}..,{#|},6{}'
	 " pseudo-border with padding between columns
	 set viewcolumns='*{name}..,{# | },6{}'

       This can be used to draw column separators.  Mind that for  convenience
       literals	 have  different defaults: truncation and automatically deter-
       mined absolute size, which is what you usually  want  for  them.	  Make
       sure to quote or escape spaces, vertical bars and other special symbols
       when using them as part of literals.

       Cropping specifier

       It's from one to three dots after closing curly brace in column format.

       Specifies  type	of  text  truncation  if it doesn't fit in the column.
       Currently three types are supported:

	 - truncation - text is truncated

	     set viewcolumns=-{name}.

	   results in truncation of names that are too long  too  fit  in  the
	   view.

	 - adding  of  ellipsis - ellipsis on the left or right are added when
	   needed

	     set viewcolumns=-{name}..

	   results in that ellipsis are added at the  end  of  too  long  file
	   names.

	 - none (default) - text can pass column boundaries

	     set viewcolumns=-{name}...,{ext}

	   results in that long file names can partially be written on the ext
	   column.

Color schemes
       The color schemes in vifm can be applied in two different ways:

	 - as the primary color scheme;

	 - as local to a pane color scheme.

       Both types are set using :colorscheme command, but of different forms:

	 - :colorscheme color_scheme_name - for the primary color scheme;

	 - :colorscheme color_scheme_name directory - for local color schemes.

       Look  of different parts of the TUI (Text User Interface) is determined
       in this way:

	 - Border, TabLine,  TabLineSel,  TopLineSel,  TopLine,	 CmdLine,  Er-
	   rorMsg,  StatusLine,	 JobLine, SuggestBox, WildBox and WildMenu are
	   always determined by the primary color scheme;

	 - CurrLine, Selected, Directory, Link,	 BrokenLink,  Socket,  Device,
	   Executable,	Fifo, CmpMismatch, CmpUnmatched, CmpBlank, Win, AuxWin
	   and OtherWin are determined by primary color scheme and  a  set  of
	   local color schemes, which can be empty.

       There might be a set of local color schemes because they are structured
       hierarchically  according to file system structure. For example, having
       the following piece of file system:

	 ~
	 `-- bin
	    |
	    `-- my

       Two color schemes:

	 # ~/.config/vifm/colors/for_bin.vifm
	 highlight Win cterm=none ctermfg=white ctermbg=red
	 highlight CurrLine cterm=none ctermfg=red ctermbg=black

	 # ~/.config/vifm/colors/for_bin_my.vifm
	 highlight CurrLine cterm=none ctermfg=green ctermbg=black

       And these three commands in the vifmrc file:

	 colorscheme Default
	 colorscheme for_bin ~/bin
	 colorscheme for_bin_my ~/bin/my

       File list will look in the following way for each level:

       - ~/ - Default color scheme
	 black background
	 cursor with blue background

       - ~/bin/ - mix of Default and for_bin color schemes
	 red background
	 cursor with black background and red foreground

       - ~/bin/my/ - mix of Default, for_bin and for_bin_my color schemes
	 red background
	 cursor with black background and green foreground

Trash directory
       vifm has support of trash directory, which is used as temporary storage
       for deleted files or files that were cut.  Using trash is controlled by
       the 'trash' option, and exact  path  to	the  trash  can	 be  set  with
       'trashdir'  option.   Trash  directory in vifm differs from the system-
       wide one by default, because of possible incompatibilities  of  storing
       deleted	 files	among  different  file	managers.   But	 one  can  set
       'trashdir' to "~/.local/share/Trash" to use a "standard"	 trash	direc-
       tory.

       There are two scenarios of using trash in vifm:

	 1. As	a  place for storing files that were cut by "d" and may be in-
	    serted to some other place in file system.

	 2. As a storage of files, that are deleted but not purged yet.

       The first scenario uses deletion ("d") operations to put files to trash
       and put ("p") operations to restore files from trash  directory.	  Note
       that  such operations move files to and from trash directory, which can
       be long term operations in case of different partitions or remote  dri-
       ves mounted locally.

       The  second scenario uses deletion ("d") operations for moving files to
       trash directory and :empty command-line command to purge all previously
       deleted files.

       Deletion and put operations depend on registers,	 which	can  point  to
       files  in trash directory.  Normally, there are no nonexistent files in
       registers, but vifm doesn't keep track of modifications under trash di-
       rectory, so one shouldn't expect value of registers  to	be  absolutely
       correct if trash directory was modified not by operation that are meant
       for  it.	 But this won't lead to any issues with operations, since they
       ignore nonexistent files.

File copying
       For enabling copy-on-write of BTRFS  on	Linux,	set  "fastfilecloning"
       flag of 'iooptions' option.

       File  copying  within an XFS file system uses reflinks by default.  Any
       file copied from another file system will be  copied  without  reflinks
       even  if it has a matching list of XFS extents.	Reflinks are not guar-
       anteed when using external programs.  This behaviour  was  observed  on
       Linux and doesn't necessarily hold for other environments.

Client-Server
       vifm  supports  remote  execution of command-line mode commands, remote
       changing of directories and expression evaluation.   This  is  possible
       using --remote and --remote-expr command-line arguments.

       To  execute  a command remotely combine --remote argument with -c <com-
       mand> or +<command>.  For example:

	 vifm --remote -c 'cd /'
	 vifm --remote '+cd /'

       To change directory not using command-line mode commands one can	 spec-
       ify paths right after --remote argument, like this:

	 vifm --remote /
	 vifm --remote ~
	 vifm --remote /usr/bin /tmp

       Evaluating  expression  remotely	 might	be useful to query information
       about an instance, for example its location:

	 vifm --remote-expr 'expand("%d")'

       If there are several running instances, the  target  can	 be  specified
       with  --server-name  option (otherwise, the first one lexicographically
       is used):

	 vifm --server-name work --remote ~/work/project

       List of names of running instances can be  obtained  via	 --server-list
       option.	Name of the current one is available via v:servername.


       v:servername
	      server  name  of	the  running  vifm instance.  Empty if client-
	      server feature is disabled.

External Renaming
       When an editor is run to edit list of file names, contents of the  tem-
       porary file has the following format:

	 1. Order of lines correspond to the order of files in a view.

	 2. Lines that start with a "#" are comments and are ignored.

	 3. Single  backslash at the beginning of a line is ignored, so that a
	    file starting with a backslash will appear like "\#name".

       If an operation was rejected due to issues with file names,  next  time
       you'll see the following in this order:

	 1. Last error (in comments).

	 2. Original file names (in comments).

	 3. Failed list of new names.

       Mind  that Vim plugin will extract list of original names and show them
       in a vertical split.

       You can cancel renaming by removing all non-comments from  the  buffer.
       This also erases information about previous edits.

Using mouse
       Note:  <ScrollWheelDown>	 is  not available on 32-bit *nix systems, be-
       cause ncurses doesn't support it there (limitation of implementation).

       Note: these are not available in mappings at the moment.

       Normal Mode

	 event		   position  change  action
			    cursor   window
	 <LeftMouse>	     yes      yes    <cr> if cursor wasn't move
	 <LeftRelease>	      no      yes
	 <MiddleMouse>	      no      yes    <c-e>
	 <MiddleRelease>      no      yes
	 <RightMouse>	     yes      yes    :file
	 <RightRelease>	      no      yes
	 <ScrollWheelUp>      no      yes    <c-y> or :tabprevious
	 <ScrollWheelDown>    no      yes    <c-e> or :tabnext

       Clicking on or scrolling over an inactive pane (including  its  title),
       makes  it  active  and does nothing else.  Tabs are scrolled when mouse
       hovers over them.

       Clicking on the left miller column goes to parent directory and	click-
       ing the right one opens current entry.

       Visual Mode

	 event		   position  selection	action
			    cursor
	 <LeftMouse>	     yes      update	<cr> if cursor wasn't move
	 <LeftRelease>	      no
	 <MiddleMouse>	      no      update	<c-e>
	 <MiddleRelease>      no
	 <RightMouse>	      no
	 <RightRelease>	      no
	 <ScrollWheelUp>      no      update	<c-y>
	 <ScrollWheelDown>    no      update	<c-e>

       Command-line Mode

	 event		   position  action
			    cursor
	 <LeftMouse>	     yes
	 <LeftRelease>	      no
	 <MiddleMouse>	      no     <c-n>
	 <MiddleRelease>      no
	 <RightMouse>	      no
	 <RightRelease>	      no
	 <ScrollWheelUp>      no     <c-p>
	 <ScrollWheelDown>    no     <c-n>

       Menu Mode

	 event		   position  action
			    cursor
	 <LeftMouse>	     yes     <cr> if cursor wasn't moved
	 <LeftRelease>	      no
	 <MiddleMouse>	      no     <c-e>
	 <MiddleRelease>      no
	 <RightMouse>	      no
	 <RightRelease>	      no
	 <ScrollWheelUp>      no     <c-y>
	 <ScrollWheelDown>    no     <c-e>

       view Mode

	 event		     action

	 <ScrollWheelUp>     k
	 <ScrollWheelDown>   j

       Clicking	 on  or scrolling over an inactive pane (including its title),
       detaches view mode if it wasn't activated for exploring a file.


Plugin
       Plugin for using vifm in vim as a file selector.

       Commands:

	 :EditVifm   select a file or files to open in the current buffer.
	 :Vifm	     alias for :EditVifm.
	 :SplitVifm  split buffer and select a file or files to open.
	 :VsplitVifm vertically split buffer and select a  file	 or  files  to
       open.
	 :DiffVifm    select  a	 file  or files to compare to the current file
       with
		     :vert diffsplit.
	 :TabVifm    select a file or files to open in tabs.

       Each command accepts up to two arguments: left pane directory and right
       pane directory.	After arguments are checked, vifm process  is  spawned
       in  a  special "file-picker" mode.  To pick files just open them either
       by pressing l, i or Enter keys, or by running  :edit  command.	If  no
       files  are  selected,  file under the cursor is opened, otherwise whole
       selection is passed to the plugin and opened in vim.

       The plugin have only  two  settings.   It's  a  string  variable	 named
       g:vifm_term  to	let  user specify command to run GUI terminal.	By de-
       fault it's equal to 'xterm -e'.	 And  another  string  variable	 named
       g:vifm_exec,  which  equals  "vifm"  by	default	 and specifies path to
       vifm's executable.  To pass arguments  to  vifm	use  g:vifm_exec_args,
       which is empty by default.

       To  use	the  plugin  copy  the vifm.vim file to either the system wide
       vim/plugin directory or into ~/.vim/plugin.

       If you would prefer not to use the plugin and it is in the system  wide
       plugin directory add

       let loaded_vifm=1

       to your ~/.vimrc file.

Reserved
       The following command names are reserved and shouldn't be used for user
       commands.

	 g[lobal]
	 v[global]

ENVIRONMENT
       VIFM   Points   to   main   configuration  directory  (usually  ~/.con-
	      fig/vifm/).

       MYVIFMRC
	      Points   to   main   configuration   file	   (usually    ~/.con-
	      fig/vifm/vifmrc).

       These  environment variables are valid inside vifm and also can be used
       to configure it by setting some of them before running vifm.

       When $MYVIFMRC isn't set, it's made as $VIFM/vifmrc (exception for Win-
       dows: vifmrc in the same directory as vifm.exe has higher priority than
       $VIFM/vifmrc).

       See "Startup" section above for more details.

       VIFM_FUSE_FILE
	      On execution of external commands this variable is  set  to  the
	      full  path  of  file  used to initiate FUSE mount of the closest
	      mount point from current pane's directory up.  It's not set when
	      outside FUSE mount point.	 When vifm  is	used  inside  terminal
	      multiplexer,  it	tries to set this variable as well (it doesn't
	      work this way on its own).

SEE ALSO
       vifm-convert-dircolors(1), vifm-pause(1)

       Website: https://vifm.info/
       Wiki: https://wiki.vifm.info/

AUTHOR
       Vifm was originally created by ksteen <ksteen@users.sourceforge.net>
       It is currently developed by xaizek <xaizek@posteo.net>

vifm 0.14.3			 04 June 2025			       VIFM(1)
