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dfm (Dylan's File Manager)

A powerful, simple and snappy terminal file manager with minimal
resource usage. Written in C99 with no dependencies outside of
POSIX/libc.

FEATURES
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* Tiny binary (~90KiB small, ~40KiB tiny, ~150KiB static)
* No dynamic memory allocation (~1.5MiB static)
* No dependencies outside of POSIX/libc
* Vim-like keybindings
* Incremental as-you-type search (startswith and substring modes)
* Multiple sort modes (name, extension, size, mtime, reverse)
* Multiple view modes (name, size, permissions, mtime, all)
* Multi-entry marking with foreach, bulk and shell operations
* Bookmarks (DFM_BOOKMARK_0 through DFM_BOOKMARK_9)
* Filesystem change watching
* CD on exit
* UTF-8 support
* Customizable keybindings and commands at compile-time
* Efficient low-bandwidth partial rendering

OPTIONAL
--------
* chafa -- image preview support (DFM_IMG_MODE=chafa)
* kitty -- image preview support (DFM_IMG_MODE=kitty)

BUILD OPTIONS
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NOCOLOR=yes ./dfm.SlackBuild
Build without colors (useful for minimal or monochrome setups).

CLEAREXIT=yes ./dfm.SlackBuild
Clear the screen when quitting dfm. Only needed if your terminal
does not support the XTerm alternate screen.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
---------------------
Set these in ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile to customize runtime behavior.

DFM_OPENER Program used to open files (default: xdg-open).
export DFM_OPENER=nvi
export DFM_OPENER=vim
DFM_BOOKMARK_[0-9] Directory bookmarks.
export DFM_BOOKMARK_0="$HOME/projects"
DFM_COPYER Clipboard tool, fed data via stdin.
export DFM_COPYER=xclip
DFM_TRASH Program used to trash files.
DFM_TRASH_DIR Path to the trash directory.
DFM_SU Privilege escalation tool (sudo, doas, etc).
export DFM_SU=doas
DFM_IMG_MODE Image preview mode: 'chafa' or 'kitty'.
export DFM_IMG_MODE=chafa

Maintained by: r1w1s1
Keywords: file,file manager,console
ChangeLog: dfm

Homepage:
https://github.com/dylanaraps/dfm

Source Downloads:
dfm-1.0.2.tar.gz (520f8aa5d571caaa0e56bdd4bad3311b)

Download SlackBuild:
dfm.tar.gz
dfm.tar.gz.asc (FAQ)

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