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.

       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 [count] times.

       [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.

       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'.

       [count]Y or [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.

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

       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" section below.

       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.

       al     put symbolic links with absolute paths.

       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 for temporary storing list of yanked
       or deleted files.

       Registers should be specified by hitting double quote key followed by a
       register name.  Count is specified after	 register  name.   By  default
       commands use unnamed register, which has double quote as its name.

       Though  all  commands  accept  registers, most of commands ignores them
       (for example H or Ctrl-U).  Other commands can fill register or	append
       new files to it.

       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 when you use named registers (a-z and A-
       Z) unnamed register is updated to contain same list  of	files  as  the
       last used register.

       _  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
       aren't and should be used to append new files to the existing file list
       of appropriate lowercase register (A for a, B for b, ...).

       Registers can be changed on :empty command if they contain files	 under
       trash directory (see "Trash directory" section below).

       Registers do not contain one file more than once.

       Example:

	 "a2yy

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

	 "Ad

       removes	one file and append 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  their  syntax  con-
       flicts  with  names of registers and fields where double quotes are al-
       lowed.

       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 over-
	      write.

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

       %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
       Copy  and move operation can take a lot of time to proceed.  That's why
       vifm supports backgrounding of this  two	 operations.   To  run	:copy,
       :move  or :delete command in the background just add " &" at the end of
       a command.

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

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

       Background operations cannot be undone.

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 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 notification on the	status
       bar is shown.

       External application calls

       Each  of this 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 contain list of files from a single directory,  but
       sometimes  it's	useful to populate them with list of files that do not
       belong to the same directory, which is what custom views are for.

       Presentation

       Custom views are still related to 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 same directory have to be named differently, this doesn't hold
       for custom views thus seeing just file names might be rather confusing.
       In order to give an idea where files come from and when possible, rela-
       tive paths to original directory of the view  is	 displayed,  otherwise
       full path is used instead.

       Custom views normally don't contain any inexistent files.

       Navigation

       Custom  views  have  some  differences related to navigation in regular
       views.

       gf - acts similar to gf on symbolic links and navigates to the file  at
       its real
	    location.

       h  -  go to the closest parent node in the tree view; otherwise, return
       to the
	   original directory.

       gh - return to the original directory.

       Opening ".." entry also causes return to the original directory.

       History

       Custom list exists only while it's visible, once left one can't	return
       to it, so there is no appearances of it in any history.

       Filters

       Only  local  filter  affects content of the view.  This is intentional,
       presumably if one loads 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  fu-
       ture, 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
       removed 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 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 it doesn't make much sense.

       On the other hand, operations that use files of	a  custom  view	 as  a
       source  (e.g. yanking, copying, moving file from custom view, deletion)
       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 one file system tree.   Here  duplicates
       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.

       Creation

       Arguments passed to :compare form seven categories each	with  its  own
       prefix and is responsible for particular property of 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
       is considered.  Arguments alter default behaviour instead of substitut-
       ing 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.

       Examples

       The defaults corresponds to probably the most common use case  of  com-
       paring  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 same id are considered to be equal.	 The view  columns  configura-
       tion 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  each	 other	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.

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 written by ksteen <ksteen@users.sourceforge.net>
       And currently is developed by xaizek <xaizek@posteo.net>

vifm 0.14		       08 February 2025			       VIFM(1)
