v1.5.1

CliFM 1.5.1 (Willy)

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when built via makepkg on Archlinux

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v1.5

CliFM 1.5 (Nano)

Thanks to @l2dy for making the MacOS port possible!

New features

• Better handle non-alphanumeric chars when sorting
• Crtl-Alt-q: Toggle max file name len on/off
• Define DATADIR at compile time via the Makefile
• MacOS port!
• New instance function is available to all supported platforms
• Force the use of colors via CLIFM_FORCE_COLOR environment variable
• Accept more word delimiters for accept first suggested word and delete last word functions
• DirIconsColor renamed DirIconColorin the color scheme file
• Color variables support for the color scheme file
• Light theme included
• Suckless mode compilation via CLIFM_SUCKLESS
• Improved theming support: interface stuff (including colors, prompt, warning prompt, dividing line, and FZF options) is defined now in the color scheme file.
• Customizable color codes for files properties
• Remove files in bulk via a text editor
• Etiqueta, a files tagging system
• --sort accepts strings as well as numeric values
• Improved format for the properties string in long mode
• Command line switch (--apparent-size) to use apparent sizes intead of actual device usage
• Disk usage analyzer mode via -t, --disk-usage-analyzer
• New command: stats, to print files statistics
• New prompt: Security scanner
• New escape codes for the prompt (files statistics)
• Allow the warning prompt to understand escape sequences
• Colorize command history ELN's
• Add color and correctly PAD ELN's in directory history screen
• Correctly pad ELN's in bookmarks screen
• Replace the plugins-helper check in all plugins by a simple environment variable check: CLIFM_PLUGINS_HELPER
• --version just prints the version number

Bug Fixes

• Wrong size for selected files after moving previous selected files
• Error when getting length of file name containing invalid multi-byte sequence
• The interactive rename function fails with ~/ file names
• CLIFM_STAT_TRASH reporting wrong number of trashed files
• Wrong cursor position when suggestion is longer than NAME_MAX
• Crash when ExtColors holds a really long string
• Some entries not working in the interactive help plugin.
• Wrong FZF offset with dynamic prompt changes (e.g. exit code)
• When suggesting file names, the last matching one is suggested instead of the first one, as expected
• Attempting to use suggestions in terminals that do not support it
• Attempting to use colors in terminals that do not support color
• Wrongly restoring regular after switching workspaces
• exit internal command triggers the warning prompt
• Color for all workspaces in the prompt is cyan when --no-color is passed
• Missing new line char after getting media info
• Invalid value passed to the st function results in sorting by none
• Conflict between mime parameters(edit, info, and import) if there are files in CWD named likewise
• Suggestions are colored in the Linux console even with --no-color
• Double error message when invalid color scheme is passed via command line
• Suggestions for shell built-in are colored even with --no-color
• Gibberish when no date info in properties function
• Inconsistently using apparent and real sizes
• Root indicator printed in color even with --no-color
• Fix mem leak when unrecognized escape code in prompt lines
• Fix mem leak if duplicated entries in the config file
• Conditional execution fails with fused parameters
• Deletion time for trashed files cannot be read by other trash implementations
• Wrong mountpoint for mounted archives
• Wrong completions in FZF tab when no parameter is passed to the jump command
• Wrong completion/suggestion offset for strings starting with chars that need to be quoted
• Hidden files wrongly sort in version sort

v1.4

CliFM v1.4 (Alma)

New features/improvements

• Little descriptive message for the temp file of the bulk rename function
• Colorize files properties (long view and 'pr' command)
• Enable FZF TAB completion mode via CLIFM_USE_FZF environment variable
• -h can be used to access internal commands help
• Support the URI file scheme
• Support URL's when running as standalone opener
• Add support for gio as resource opener
• Lira matches file names now instead of just extensions
• Lira can now open URL's when used as standalone resource opener
• Lira can perform tilde expansion now
• Device information function for the media command
• bl suffix generation defaults to .link in case the user enters no string
• --help includes examples for each internal command
• TAB completion for environment variables
• Add number of items to prompt indicators (sel, trash, and messages)
• kb edit, cs edit, and actions edit allow second parameter to specify opening application
• Add a header to plugins to let the user know what it is/does
• Remove calls to system shell from Lira's code
• Secure environment and secure commands function
• Allow FZF tab to select multiple entries (several commands)
• The dup command can duplicate now multiple files at once
• Customizable tilde color for trimmed files
• Improved Unicode support
• Handle file names with embedded control characters
• Better help (with pager)
• Allow passing no option to FZF for TAB completion
• FZF theme is now 16 colors by default
• A plugins helper script to get a consistent look for all FZF plugins
• All FZF plugins now honor NO_COLOR
• Add support for NO_COLOR environment variable
• --no-color option now makes CliFM truly colorless
• More image viewers and video players support out of the box
• Add neovim and micro-emacs to the list of default applications for plain text files
• Improve mime_list plugin using FZF
• Backdir (bd): Quickly changes to a parent directory
• When the files filter is set, print the number of excluded files
• Allow quoted expressions for the filter command
• Make Bleach conformant to the Portable Filename Character set
• Read CLIFM_FZF_HEIGHT to get a coherent look for all plugins using fzf
• fzfnav allows now to customize the FZF window height via BFG.cfm (#87)
• Better sort lock, autosave, and backup files generated by emacs and other programs
• New autocommands mode via .cfm.in (entering dir) and .cfm.out (leaving dir) special files
• Little export implementation
• Allow Lira to understand environment variables (#86)
• Add nsxiv support to the mimelist file (sxiv is now unmaintained)

Bug fixes

• c and m commands sometimes fail when destiny parameter is specified
• Auto-unmount not working for the net command
• ow lists duplicated entries with TAB completion
• No order number expansion for jo command
• Wrong completions for paths starting wiht tilde
• Won't work when invoked by another program, e.g. via a shell script
• Hang when variable defined in profile and internal variables are disabled
• plugins-helper not found for FZF plugins
• Extraction path for archives triggers the warning prompt
• Prompt does not recover color after warning prompt
• No colors when running in stealth mode
• When running on Wayland Lira does not recognize any graphical application
• FZF TAB completion fails with directory names containing spaces
• Error compiling with _NO_FZF flag
• Directories with spaces no further completed in FZF TAB
• Cannot execute command m4: shell cmd m4 gets executed instead
• Invalid free in dup command when destiny is specified
• No usage message for vv command
• File names are wrongly displayed in fzfdesel plugin
• Wrong path when selecting ./FILENAME
• Gibberish in long view when files are trimmed (VTE terminals)
• Unable to kill external program via Ctrl-c
• MaxFilenameLen not working with Unicode file names (#91)
• pin command (,) triggers the warning prompt
• mm info does not correctly display opening application when it has parameters
• Crash when going forth to non-existing dir
• The --no-color option does not produce a truly colorless interface
• Wrong executable name for kakoune editor in mimelist.cfm
• The rename prompt is garbled when renaming too long files names
• ELN& triggering the warning prompt
• 'sel keyword suggested even if there are no selected files
• Not switching color scheme with autocommands
• Executable scripts not opened as regular files
• File names with non standard characters not correctly escaped with TAB completion

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v1.3

CliFM v1.3 (Sebastian)

My gratitude to @Docbroke for all his suggestions and bug reports.

New features/improvements

• Bleach, a file names cleaner
• Improved sorting for Unicode file names
• Version sort for non-GNU systems
• Environment variables expansion
• TAB completion for undel and trash del commands
• Allow directories to be opened via external applications
• ad could be used now as opening application in the mimelist file
• Vifm-like Autocommands
• Customizable colors for workspaces
• New cmd: media, to handle mount/unmount of storage devices
• Get out of mountpoint before unmounting
• New keybinding (Alt-q) to delete last typed word
• TAB completion for the sel keyword and the deselect command
• Allow ds to deselect files passed as parameters
• Mark selected files in the files list
• New default colors for: some specific file extensions, files counter
• Case insensitive files search
• --list-on-the-fly option renamed to --autols (same for config file)
• Allow setting a max file name length for listed files
• The mf command accepts now the unset parameter
• Interactive rename functionality for the m command.
• Open-with command (ow)
• ls(1)-like listing mode
• Suggestions for shell builtins
• Independent color for the suggestions pointer (>)
• ELN padding for file names alignment
• Allow editing the history file via history edit
• The refresh function does not reset the last cmd exit code anymore
• New plugin: fzfdirhist
• TAB completion and suggestions for cmd names after process separator chars
• Warning prompt for invalid command names
• FZF mode for TAB completion
• Syntax highlighting
• \z returns exit code instead of ASCII face
• The alias function supports now both single and double quotes
• The ds command allows now the user to manually edit the selections file
• Optionally allow to quit CliFM with Ctrl-d
• Add icon-in-terminal reference to the icons command in the manpage
• Home key not bound anymore to anything
• Do not split commands not taking ELN's or numbers as parameters
• Append .new to file name when creating an already existent file name with the new command.
• Use mkstemp() instead of manually creating the file
• Use the P_tmpdir macro to get tmp dir
• Unique temp file for bulk rename
• Add broken link error message when opening a broken symlink
• Allow cd command to understand CDPATH environment variable

Bug fixes

• Accept suggestion removes ./ from command line
• Bulk rename not working with vis editor
• Unable to operate on file names with embedded backslashes
• Custom color scheme not loaded at startup
• MinFilenameTrim overriden by MaxFilenameLen
• Unicode file names not correctly trimmed in detail view
• When it comes to archives, Lira overrides user's choice in mimelist.cfm in favor of ad.
• bm bm_name not working if ExpandBookmarks is set to true (#76).
• Crash when no mountpoint is specified in the net config file
• Files list not refreshed when creating broken symlink in Linux
• Parameters to new command wrongly taken as regular expressions
• Colors for file extensions contains non-alphabetic stuff not working
• Symlink to dir not colored as symlink in the selection box
• Wrong ELN color when setting custom files counter color
• Command line colors (suggestions, highlight) produce gibberish on evilvte and vte (legacy) terminals
• Wrong message for unrecognized command line options
• Tilde not expanded for --opener parameter
• Not honoring --no-colors when editing the configuration file
• Crash when setting starting path from the config file
• Wrong TAB completion in subprompts
• Text and files counter colors not honored
• Not selecting files when inverse patterns
• The color of files listed for possible completions does not honor CliFM specific colors
• When changing filetype colors on the fly, that is, editing the color schemes
  file while running CliFM, colors for possible completions won't be updated until next start
• Shell built-in functions not working if running as ;cmd
• Not compiling on musl systems like Void Linux
• Missing --no-eln option from internal help
• DivLineChar not working fine when it contains only spaces.
• Wrong suggestion offset after dash
• dup doesn't work with file names starting with tilde
• dup cmd does not refresh the screen
• Refuses to trash max len file name
• vi command mode not working when suggestions are enabled
• Fused param not working
• List only dirs works backwards in OpenBSD
• Wrong file type (and color) for files in loop devices
• Not unpinning pinned file
• Selection box not cleared after removing selected files
• Batch rename not renaming

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v1.2.2

CliFM v1.2.2 (Laura)

This is mostly a bug fixes release

New features/improvements

• Add files selection capability to fzfnav plugin
• Use libmagic instead of calling file(1) to check ISO and compressed files
• Use file descriptors instead of file names to avoid CWE-367.
• Allow disabling some files checks for better performance
• Support for Alexey Tourbin faster qsort implementation

Bug fixes

• Default colors not honored when running the first time
• Suggestions not enabled by default
• Autocd fails with directories containing spaces
• ihelp plugin and F1-F2 not working if MANPAGER is set
• Reverse files filter not working in light mode
• PATH programs are loaded even if external commands are disabled
• Fused parameters function splits numbers in parameters themselves
• Error when running mime info in stealth mode
• Attempting to read color schemes file in stealth mode
• Calls to access(3) when loading PATH programs in light mode
• Long option for light mode not working
• No cursor after --list-and-quit in light mode

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v1.2.1

CliFM v1.2.1 (Ana)

New features

• Fish-like auto-suggestions system 😎
• Allow compiling features in/out
• Automatic maintenance of the directory history list
• Directly query libmagic library instead of calling file(1) to get MIME types
• Haiku specific keybinds files
• Allow Unicode and strings to further customize the dividing line
• Monitor file system changes via inotify (Linux) and kqueue (BSD)
• A more consistent color experience out of the box
• Custom readline init file to avoid keybinds conflicts
• Xterm keybindings work now out of the box
• The jump function can now match first and last segments of paths
• Improved prompt customization features
• Nerdfonts support for icons
• Absolute paths and tilde in the mime file
• Process backgrounding with "CMD&" (besides "CMD &")
• %f placeholder support to Lira for improved flexibility
• Header file containing usage messages to improve maintainability
• The net command is now a completely new remotes management function
• ihelp plugin is now POSIX
• catimg and chafa are used to animate gifs
• Kitty image protocol support to fzfnav plugin
• Improved compatibility with POSIX systems
• Port to OpenBSD
• Port to NetBSD
• Port to Haiku
• Add import function to mime command
• Lira is able to discriminate between GUI and non-GUI environments
• clifmrc, keybindings, and actions.cfm files are now taken from DATADIR
• The keybindings file is now keybindings.cfm
• Lira uses now the built-in mimelist file by default
• Load plugins and color schemes from system dirs besides local dirs
• lsd support for directory previews
• Add DESTDIR to the Makefile for a more flexible installation process
• New command: create file duplicate
• Exa support for directories preview
• Hide cursor while listing files
• Automated static analysis
• --open is now deprecated. Use positional parameters to open files
• Configuration file for BFG
• Hashes as filenames to uniquely identify cached files (for BFG)
• New option: -d, --config-dir, to specify alternative config dir
• Dirjump and path completion are now case-insensitive by default
• case-ins-path-comp is now case-sens-path-comp
• case-ins-dirjump is now case-sens-dirjump
• -x option is now --no-ext-cmds
• New logo/icon color
• Keep selected files in view (optional)
• Batch copy plugin
• Reverse files filter

Bug fixes

• pp is broken on POSIX systems
• Excessive padding for files output when max_files is set
• fzfnav plugin unable to match anything containing a 'q'
• Memory leak when opening file and exit
• No cursor after --list-and-quit
• Crash if using mime command with a directory
• Crash in archiving function (ac)
• F1-F3 not working on Eterm terminal
• Corrupted terminal with long CJK directory names (#48)
• Crash in stealth mode when using TAB completion
• Pygmentize is misspelled in BFG.sh
• Sticky bit not correctly shown in file properties
• Hardcoding sudo won't work on OpenBSD (it uses doas)
• Wrong size when image is converted to text in fzfnav
• After running fzfnav mouse scroll stops working
• Double slash when selecting file in the root directory
• r command not working on POSIX systems
• Some plugins won't work on systems using POSIX ls
• Manpage not working on NetBSD
• cmd, and F1-F3 keybinds not working on POSIX systems
• fzfnav plugin: md5sum not found on BSD systems
• ihelp plugin not working on non-linux systems
• fzfnav plugin cannot found BFG.sh file
• ihelp plugin not working if manpage isn't in /usr/share
• fzfnav plugin fails when BFG.cfg is not in HOME
• Prompt printing garbage when using color codes
• fzfnav not changing directory after exit
• Not honoring cwd when RestoreLastPath is false (@Chiheisen)
• Smb crash when no options passed (@Chiheisen)
• New profile still creating old clifm_profile file
• Mounpoints not working in FreeBSD (patched by Alexey Dokuchaev, danfe)
• Crash if current directory is deleted
• Fused parameter not split when followed by path containing slash
• . and .. not expanded when using internal commands
• When changing to dirs outside HOME, term title is not updated
• Tilde as path does not work for positional parameters
• When files counter is disabled, inaccessible dirs are not colored as they should
• Not honoring --list-and-quit when empty directory
• Crash when navigating in light mode
• Zombie processes after plugins execution
• Error when specifying starting path from command line
• 1 app & doesn't work: the command is not backgrounded
• Plugins not working out of the box: mark them as executable upon installation
• Keybinds for workspaces not assigned in config file
• Keybind for copy sel files (C-A-v) not working when a file is overwritten (no STDOUT)
• Symlinking a file in CWD outside CWD produces a broken symlink
• fzfnav refuses to create pipe (via mkfifo)
• Extension colors are wrong: the last ext color found (alphabetically) overrides previous ones

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v1.2

v1.1

Version 1.1 (Nonos)

New features

• SVG preview support
• New plugin: batch files/dirs creation
• We finally have a decent logo! (#17 )
• Command and keybinding for files/directories creation
• Hard coded values in config file replaced by DEF_ macros
• Prompt modifier for current profile name (\P)
• Git integration (via script as prompt command)
• clang-format for automatic formatting (thanks to @sundaran1122)
• TAB completion for sort
• sort accepts now names as well
• Allow operating on particular selected files (as plugin)
• Permanent reminder when running as root
• Unicode is now enabled by default
• Set plugin name as terminal title when running plugins
• Warn the user when using , and no file is pinned
• Default mimelist file copied to /usr/share/clifm
• External commands are enabled by default
• Remove x functions for better portability
• Source code split into multiple files for better maintainability (thanks @sundaran1122)
• Clean up Makefile (thanks @sundaran1122)
• Subshell prompt notice (as shell code)
• Positional parameters for starting path (-p is now deprecated)
• Completions for ZSH
• New plugin: rgfind: Search files by content via Ripgrep, and fzfdeselect
• All plugins are now POSIX compliant
• REGEX support for Lira mimelist file (both MIME types and extensions)
• fzfnav plugin supports now Ranger's scope previewer script and pistol
• Command substitution support for the prompt
• Set terminal window title
• Do not remove bookmarked, pinned directories, or directories in a workspace from the jump db
• Fastback function: ... n -> ../.. n
• Keybindings for plugins. Four keybinds allowed

Bug fixes

• Misspellings in the manpage (#21 )
• Cannot cd .. when current directory does not exist
• Trying to save selected files in stealth mode
• Calling the manpage is broken
• Dirhist map not correctly updated
• Aliases names not null terminated
• TAB completion for internal commands is broken
• Old mime syntax was still used to create the mimelist file
• Extension icon not honored if file is executable, SUID, SGID, or multi-hardlink
• Fused parameters not working with number zero
• When using the quit keybinding, terminal input is not printed to STDOUT.
• Unable to access workspace if stored path for that workspace doesn't exist anymore
• Wrong error message for options taking parameters, both long and short
• cd_on_quit shell function stopped working
• Lira not accepting applications with parameters in the mimelist file
• Crash when running CliFM from within CliFM
• r * not removing directories
• Search strings must not be deescaped
• Local plugins are overwritten at every run
• Cannot select files starting with tilde

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v1.0

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

Tons of new features

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

Bug Fixes

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

v0.29.2

Bug fixes

• cd crash!!