v1.15

Clifm 1.15 (Jolly Roger)

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• Extended attributes printed for symlinks (if the target has them) when using the p command (which does not follow symlinks).
• Symbolic links marked as having extended attributes (@) (if the target has them) in long view.
• Special permission bits (SUID, SGID, and sticky) are always zero in octal notation (mostly p command).
• Garbage in the command line after pressing keybinding and there's text in the command line.
• Ctrl-Alt-b, Ctrl-Alt-j, and Ctrl-Alt-k keybindings not working. Removed (didn't make much sense anyway).
• dh !NUM not working.
• A few minor keybindings quirks were fixed.
• --disk-usage crashes on file systems reporting zero total size (ex: /proc).
• File names wrongly trimmed when file extension has exactly MAX_NAMELEN - 1 chars.
• Wrong disk usage information (for big sizes) in some 32-bit architectures.
• Two files with the same name (but different case) are both expanded even if only one is specified.
• Key remaps for vi command mode not working.
• Recounting hardlinks in disk usage analyzer mode.
• Esc+Enter switches to vi mode.
• Keybindings are executed from within some secondary prompts.
• ws and st commands not working with fused numbers (ex: ws2).
• Prompt commands executed twice after keybindings.
• After renaming a selected file it is actually deselected, but still marked as such.

New features/Improvements 😎

• Mark Libreoffice lock files (.~*#) and MS-Office temp files (~$*) as temp files.
• Document the meaning of each shade in both DateShades and SizeShades in color scheme file.
• p/pp: List files ACLs (Linux).
• p/pp: Files with extended attributes/caps/ACLs are marked with @. This replaces the + in previous versions, which was a mark for ACLs only (Linux).
• Extended attributes enabled by default (long view).
• Faster file capabilities check (improving thus the overall listing time).
• Add file system type name and device file name to the disk-usage message (--disk-usage): FREE/TOTAL (FREE_PERC) FS_TYPE_NAME DEV_NAME.
• c/m behavior for cp/mv: add final "." if last parameter is "sel".
• fb2, cb7, cbt, and cba files added to the mimelist file as ebook formats.
• sel: Do not try regex if pattern contains just asterisks as metacharacters.
• Mime: case insensitively match file name patterns (for example, file extensions).
• Add foot-extra, foot-extra-direct, rio, and rio-base to our internal terminfo database.
• Add support for image previews using sixel (via fzf). See clifmimg script. Note that sixel implementation in fzf is still experimental.

v1.14.6

Clifm 1.14.6

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• CMD1 2 not expanding ELNs (1 and 2).
• Crash with Ctrl-Alt-u keybinding.
• Wrongly attempting to remove the selections file when running t sel and there are no selected files.
• Wrong alignment for big file sizes in long view (sizes in bytes only).
• Haiku: infinite sel * loop after keybind.
• Crash when running with --list-and-quit and no parameter is provided.

New features/Improvements 😎

• Properly right-pad dash for unknown file sizes (in bytes) in long view mode.

v1.14.5

Clifm 1.14.5

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• Missing --stat and --stat-full in shell completion files.
• Wrongly displaying file names with invalid encodings.
• Out of bounds read when bleaching file names with invalid enconding.
• POSIX mode: Reading environment variables even if running in secure mode.
• The m wrongly performs regex expansion on the last parameter (new name).
• Hidden files not counted in light mode (stats command).
• Bookmark name (in the bookmarks screen) is executred as a command name.
• Crash on some OpenBSD systems.

New features/Improvements 😎

• Add internal 256 color scheme (stealth mode can now run in 256 colors).
• Highlight backslashes to make escaped file names more readable (color code is hw).
• Read-only mode (via --readonly or the Readonly option in the config file).
• The update_trash_indicator routine is almost 5x faster.
• Faster symlink resolution when ColorLinkAsTarget is enabled.
• Harden regex expansion to prevent undesired expansions (prepend ^ and append $ to queries).

v1.14

Clifm 1.14 (Jawbreaker)

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• Crash on Termux when running with --secure-env.
• Not recovering from warning prompt when navigating history with Up and Down arrow keys.
• No screen refresh after renaming files with bleach (if using the generic files system events monitor).
• Not working on Linux < 2.6.27 (no inotify).
• Wrong files list color for unknown file types (right color with p/pp command).
• Highlight color is lost after inserting sudo command (Alt-v).
• Binary names in PATH loaded multiple times.
• Wrong inserted match when TAB completing the desel command.
• dup fails when file name starts with a dash (subsequent characters are taken as command options).
• Backdir (...) not working in Macos and Haiku.
• Stack overflow when writing log to profile directory with not write permission.
• Max name length unset not honored in long view.
• Compilation with SECURITY_PARANOID does not work if no command line parameter is provided.
• Commands received via plugins are not sanitized even if running in secure-cmds mode.
• Wrong full directory sizes below 1K.
• Mangled output for Xattributes (p command) in case of broken symbolic links.
• Wrong size for block device files on some platforms.
• Extended attribute in p command sometimes prints garbage values.
• Wrong icon (regular file) for executable files with capabilities.
• Some plugins not working with file names containing spaces.
• Properly expand history events (sudo !! not working).
• TAB completion for envrinoment variables not working.
• Error building on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
• Ctrl-u deletes the current line but does not recover from the warning prompt.
• The l command cannot create link names containing spaces.
• Wrong birth time (Unix epoch) in Solaris.

New features/Improvements 😎

• Secure-mode: disable core dumps; set umask to 0077 at startup; force creation mode 0600 for files and 0700 for dirs (n command); close non-standard file descriptors.
• By default, the te command sets the executable bit for the file owner only (unsets it for owner, group, and others).
• If available, use the higher-quality arc4random(3) instead of the old random(3).
• Use temporary random file names to communicate with TAB completers.
• The SECURITY_PARANOID compilation flag takes now three possible values: 1 = secure-cmds + secure-env; 2 = secure-cmds + secure-env-full; 3 = same as 2, plus stealth-mode.
• Warn when removing multi-hardlink files: file might still exists.
• If running in secure mode, check config files for symlinks and multi-hardlinks (see CWE-59 and CWE-62).
• Drastically reduce memory usage (~50%) under heavy load (100,000 files).
• Increased listing speed in long view.
• Increase the limit of files per directory from INT_MAX to SSIZE_MAX (meaningful only for 64-bit machines: these values are the same in 32-bit systems).
• Lots of improvements to the POSIX version (much more compliant).
• Improved compatibility with legacy systems (pre-POSIX.2008).
• Increase file(1) support from 4.24 (Mar, 2008) to 3.30 (Apr, 2000).
• TAB complete the third word for the rr command with text editors.
• Files birth time support in Haiku.
• Fish versions for cd_on_quit.sh and file_picker.sh shell functions (by @spenserblack).
• Allow extended file attributes in non-glibc Linux distros.
• Allow nested instances. Properly set both SHLVL and CLIFMLVL environment variables.
• Allow customizing the prompt when running colorless (via the clifm-no-color prompt).
• Allow using single/double quotes to quote regular file names via ELN expansion (using the QuotingStyle option in the config file).
• Colorize backup files (ending with tilde (~) or #*# (emacs auto-save)) using the color specified for TEMP in the color scheme file.
• Improved confirmation prompt for the r command.
• Set a custom history file via CLIFM_HISTFILE.
• Exclude commands from history via the HistIgnore option in the config file.
• Exclude directories from the directory history via the DirhistIgnore option in the config file.
• Make multi-hardlink color take precedence over empty and file extension colors.
• Support for Solaris port files, NetBSD archive state files, and whiteouts.
• p/pp command can now tell whether a file is sparse (has holes), in which case it adds the sparse label to the Size field.
• p cmd: print file capabilities if available (Linux).
• Run as standalone stat(1) replacement via --stat and --stat-full command line options.
• Customizable timestamps for the 'p/pp' command via the PTimeStyle option in the config file.

v1.13

Clifm 1.13 (Voodoo Root)

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• A variable assignment triggers the warning prompt even if running with --int-vars.
• clifm --open=~PATH not working.
• Crash when running the n command with an empty string: n "".
• Suggestion persists after running a keybinding.
• Image previews with clifmrun are broken since ueberzug 18.2.0.
• No path completion for x/X command.
• The new command is not properly handling file names with tilde (via secondary prompt)
• Some keybindings are overlapping (ex: press Alt-b and then Alt-m)
• Quoted strings passed to either the new or the filter commands are expanded (wordexp(3)).
• The regular files filter (=f) wrongly expands to non-regular files.
• The new command splits quoted names containing spaces (ex: n "a b/").
• Wrong highlighted match in standard TAB completion when using the j command.
• TAB completion for ranges lists files even when the range goes beyond the number of files.
• Duplicate entries in the jump database.
• Wrong message when adding instead of removing a line from the tmp file in bulk remove (rr).
• cs (color scheme) does not work in autocommands if it's not the last directive.
• Cannot enter cyrillic characters.
• jo command removed: not useful and broken since 1.11.
• Wrong completer offset when warning prompt is disabled.
• Prompt options in the color scheme file do not properly override options specified in the prompts file.
• When customized, the warning prompt color does not match the color used for input text.
• Tagging non-existent file names.
• s /path/to/dir/.* selects self and parent directories (instead of just hidden files).
• s * -d fails to select a directory file named -dir.
• Wrong matches color when TAB completing self or parent dir (ex: ./dir/<TAB>).
• Unrecognized option --indicator-style=none when previewing directories on BSD.
• Color scheme names containing a dot are not recognized, even if they have a .clifm extension.
• Wrong file color when listing trashed files not trashed by clifm.
• Quick help (?) fails if the *PAGER environment variable is set and contains spaces.
• Trash directories not properly created if they do not exist, breaking the trash function.
• Wrong columns width when file names contain embedded control characters.
• Wrong message (No matches found) after recursive search (-x)
• Scanning ... message not properly removed in case of empty directories.
• --no-warning-prompt not working.
• Listing files twice upon file removal (Haiku, Cygwin)
• MinFilenameTrim is overriden by MaxFilenameLen in long view.
• Setting RlEditMode to 1 does not switch back to emacs mode.
• Suggestions not properly removed in some cases (type bm add Camera/ cm, when suggested string is bm add Camera/ Camera cm)
• If running via the cd_on_quit.sh shell function, the shell directory is always changed, even if the exit command was not Q.

New features/Improvements 😎

• The shell used to run external commands can be set via either CLIFM_SHELL or SHELL environment variables.
• On NetBSD, OpenBSD, and MacOS, use grm (the GNU version of rm) if available.
• Add status message to the reload command.
• Append a slash to directory names when reporting removed files.
• Harden config files creation: always set permissions to 600, disregarding umask (see CWE-732).
• Add umask builtin command.
• pwd is now a builtin.
• The p command do not follows symlinks (unless it is a symlink to a dir and ends with a slash), while pp always does.
• TAB complete authentication command (ex: sudo) with available command names.
• Improved input handling for both new and dup commands (via secondary prompts)
• Ask the user for confirmation when creating unsafe file names (new command).
• Do not perform multi-file expansions (say, ranges), if there's a file named after the expansible expression.
• Since fzy has been inactive for more than a year (and our patch has not been even reviewed), we forked it as fnf and migrated clifm to it: --fzytab is now --fnftab, and the TabCompletionMode option now takes fnf instead of fzy as value.
• Make file type filter chars in selection match those used by the search function.
• Port to SunOS/Solaris/Illumos.
• Solaris doors support.
• Nano-second precision for timestamps in p/pp command.
• Support for BSD file flags (p/pp command).
• Honor both CLIFM_TMPDIR and TMPDIR environment variables.
• A generic file system events monitor using mtimes (for when neither inotify nor kqueue are available).
• In case of find(1) implementations not supporting regex (OpenBSD/Solaris) try to use gfind(1) instead.
• Enable secure commands/environment on NetBSD, Haiku, and MacOS.
• Ctrl-Alt-j and Ctrl-Alt-m switch to vi editing mode, while Ctrl-Alt-e switches back to emacs mode.

v1.12

Clifm 1.12 (Blondebeard)

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• Warning prompt color persists after recovering from wrong command
• Size of empty dirs is zero when apparent-size is disabled (should print '4k' instead)
• A file of 1024 bytes exactly is displayed as 1024B instead of 1K
• Cannot open links to regular files (neither ELN nor FILENAME nor FILENAME APP)
• Warning prompt triggered when more than one word and editing first word to s:, b:, or t: constructs
• Wrong color when TAB completing in the middle of the line and whatever is next is colored (ex: quotes)
• 'update.sh' plugin is unable to retrieve latest upstream version
• Attempting to switch profiles when there is only one
• Partially printed directory size ('pp' command) on wsvt25 console (NetBSD)
• When you type uc a command description is provided, but the command doesn't exist anymore
• 'mp' command not working on DragonFly BSD
• ls returns exit code 1 (even when there is no error) when running with --no-autols
• ow not honoring ![EO] notation in the opening application string
• Wrong color for non-existent tagged files
• No completion for tag FILE :<TAB>
• Query string not correctly cleared when TAB completed text is shorter (tagged files insertion)
• Extension color no honored by the p command for symlink targets
• When running colorless, links are always shown as broken in p command
• When toggling the disk usage analyzer (Alt-TAB) the value of apparent-size is changed
• Directory history from different instances is not preserved: the last instance overwrites everything.
• New jump entries (visited directories) generated from a second instance is not preserved
• Selected files indicator not shown in long view if ELN's are disabled
• Wrong color for symlink target in p command when the target is a special file
• Inaccessible directory not colored as such when the user has not execute permission
• The ne color code has no effect at all. Removed.
• Crash when attempting to run a plugin via a keyboard shortcut.
• cmdxxxx<TAB> performs TAB completion as if the string were just cmd
• Some internal subcommands are never suggested
• Version sort not correctly sorting (file10 before file9!)
• Wrong screen width when using icons in long view and file names are not trimmed
• Description for some commands is never suggested
• mm --help returns 1 (error) as exit status
• Some shell completion for Bash and Zsh are broken
• Files list not reloaded when unmounting remote
• --print-sel is not working
• Crash when changing dir and the directory history is empty
• te command reports success even if the operation failed (e.g. permission denied)
• A file named ...file is wrongly converted into ../../ by the fastback function
• Cannot untrash file if destiny (original path) is on a different file system
• Misaligned emoji-icons in foot (Wayland)
• Wrong files alignment in virtual dirs when clear-screen is disabled
• Select files using the same glob expression twice: wrong files got selected.
• Missing space between icon and file name when running with --no-color
• Broken nerdfont icons since NerdFont 3.0
• PWD not properly set in case of symlinks to directories
• Words in the command line are expanded even if quoted or escaped (ex: s \~")
• clifm -P . creates a profile that cannot be managed via the 'pf' command
• Crash when expanding a tag some of whose tagged files are not existent, and is followed by another tag expression

New features/Improvements 😎

• Print dir sizes (p command) as human-size/bytes (as done for regular files) (GNU du only)
• Reload the list of binaries only when timestamps of paths in PATH differ from cached values (this might be noticeable on low-spec systems)
• Warn when attempting to merge a tag with itself
• Honor apparent-size and si options for directories on BSD systems
• New command: unset, to remove variables from the environment
• New command: ll, to toggle long view mode
• ff, hf, and lm commands just toggle state if no parameter is given
• hh is now an alias for hf, hidden
• Add free percentage to disk usage message (--disk-usage, DiskUsage)
• rf clears the screen even when ClearScreen is set to false
• Make file names trimming optional via TrimNames (config file) and --no-trim-names
• Set colors for file extension to default values when running in stealth mode
• Allow listing tags applied to an specific file (tag list FILENAME...)
• Colorize output of the jl command
• New option: ColorLinksAsTarget, to colorize symlinks as target files
• Replace slash by dot as permission groups separator char (long view and p command)
• New plugin: xclip.sh, to copy the current line buffer to the clipboard via a custom keybinding
• export can now export multiple variables at once
• Allow directly assigning hex colors to file extensions in color scheme files
• Inform target name when editing a broken symbolic link
• Append an add subcommand to tag for consistency with the remaining subcommands
• Add edit subcommand to the config command
• Add list subcommand to the net command
• Add set subcommand to the prompt command
• Add list subcommand to kb. Add both list and readline to TAB completion.
• The log command has now this syntax: log [cmd, msg [on, off, status, clear]]
• TAB complete available subcommands for actions, config, fc, mime, net, log, and prompt commands.
• filescounter command was removed (only fc remains)
• Improve logs system
• Old log.clifm file split into two files: cmdlogs.clifm and msglogs.clifm
• Disable the use of bold colors via --no-bold
• Allow the use of xterm-like color names in color schemes
• Completions file for the Fish shell
• Dir full sizes are preceded by ! whenever there was an error reading a subdir (total size may not be accurate)
• cd returns 1 in case of EACCESS error, like most shells do.
• TAB complete cmd edit <TAB> with available text editors (for all internal commands taking edit as subcommand)

v1.11

Clifm 1.11 (Cobb)

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• File names containing spaces are not properly escaped when expanding file types (=), MIME types (@), and bookmarks (b:)
• Wrong directory suggestion when entering ending slash
• No color on Wezterm terminal
• If TERM is not found in clifm's terminfo database, CLIFM_FORCE_COLOR won't work.
• Wrong cursor position with fastback and multi-line path suggestions
• jl (an actual command) triggers the warning prompt
• Error when attempting to compile without trash support (_NO_TRASH)
• Error compiling with _NO_FZF, _NO_TRASH, and _NO_ICONS
• When a custom welcome message is set the initial help message is not shown
• 'Icons' option is missing in the config file
• No error message when specifying invalid opening application to edit config files
• Garbage first line when refreshing screen via ENTER
• jl STR is returning an error code even if a match was found
• Wallpaper setter plugin not working on Wayland
• dir/*<TAB> as first word triggers the warning prompt. PARTIALLY SOLVED: if there are matches, the prompt switches back to normal.
• Wrong window offset with TAB completion for wildcards as first word
• Not honoring case insensitivity when TAB completing paths
• ListDirsFirst in the config file is broken
• Name not escaped when accepting workspace number suggestion
• Highlight color for numbers (hn) not working
• Ctrl-D exits clifm no matter if the command line isn't empty
• If CLIFM_IFACE_COLORS, CLIFM_FILE_COLORS, and CLIFM_EXT_COLORS are set, the color scheme file won't be read
• 82 is not the proper exit code for processes interrupted by a signal (e.g. Ctrl-c)
• clifm.1 crashes man(1) in Termux
• Lira fails to identify Zstandard files not ending with .zst
• ./FILE triggers the warning prompt even if FILE exists in CWD
• Unable to TAB complete ./FILE if FILE is not an executable file
• /bin/ls triggers the warning prompt, even if /bin/ls exists
• In Cygwin there's no DISPLAY variable, so that it always runs as if there's no GUI (this impacts on Lira)
• Garbage text when printing full directories sizes (pp command) and running colorless
• Device field in p command for character and block devices wrongly set to device ID instead of ID of device containing file

New features/Improvements 😎

• Proper error message when attempting to open multiple files at once
• Clip plugin reintroduced and rewritten
• Add a --purge [RANK] option to jump: purge both non existent dirs (no param) and dirs ranked below RANK
• Colorize the list of jump entries (j<ENTER>), right pad fields, and sort by rank
• Allow compiling profiles out (_NO_PROFILES)
• Enable fzfpreview by default
• The config command can be used instead of edit (which is now deprecated)
• config dump: List current settings highlighting those that deviate from the default values
• Allow specifying opening application for jump edit and prompt edit commands
• Use 256 colors for file properties if available
• Gradient colors for file size and timestamps in file properties
• New color scheme: default-256 (a 256 colors version of the default theme)
• Default to default-256 color scheme if 256 colors support is detected (ColorScheme must be unset)
• Customize time format for timestamps in long view (including relative time) using TimeStyle (config file)
• Default time format in long view is now ls(1)-like
• Colorize the list of workspaces (ws command)
• Allow unsetting workspaces via the unset subcommand (ws NUM unset)
• Options in main config file are by default commented
• Right pad ELN's and add icons (if enabled) to search results (CWD only)
• Match file extensions case-insensitively
• Alphabetically sort color schemes (cs command)
• Make Alt-f behave like in most shells (if not at the end of line, move forward one word)
• Remove --no-ctrl-d-quits, --unicode, --no-unicode, and --no-toggle-workspaces switches
• Remove uc, unicode command
• Added support for extended attributes (for both long view and 'p' command). See PropFields in the config file.
• Ported to DragonFly BSD
• Take terminal capabilities into account when clearing the screen
• Right pad ELN's when listing selected and trashed files
• Add support for CLICOLOR and CLICOLOR_FORCE environment variables. See https://bixense.com/clicolors
• Properly set OLDPWD
• Set CLIFM_PID and CLIFM_VERSION environment variables
• Apparent sizes are used now by default (--apparent-size changed to --no-apparent-size)
• Add Device type field to p command for character and block devices

v1.10

Clifm 1.10 (Swordmaster)

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• ID color not honoring secondary groups in properties
• Recursive search not following symlinks
• Attempting to rename a non-existent file
• "Querying MIME types" message is overwritten by command output
• Not refreshing screen if CWD is a symlink to dir (Linux)
• Not refreshing screen on *BSD
• Wrong default theme when argument to --color-scheme is invalid
• A slash is appended to bookmark names when completing with the bm'command
• No suggestion for ELN's after bm a
• Fix x command on Haiku
• Wrong completion offset with /<TAB> in standard TAB completion mode
• net, cs, and pf commands do not suggest case insensitively
• t:TAG<TAB> not displaying files in standard TAB completion
• 'q ' (with at least one space) triggers the warning prompt
• No suggestion/completion for names containing spaces (bd, bm, net, cs, pf, and prompt commands)
• No completion for file names containing spaces (u, t del)
• No file color when listing trashed files via u or t del commands
• No color when listing trashed files in standard TAB completion
• Unable to remove bookmarks having no shortcut
• b:<TAB> is broken in standard TAB completion
• History completion (!<TAB>) is broken in standard TAB completion mode
• Extra slash appended to history entries which are directory names
• Wrong columns offset when listing Unicode files in standard TAB completion mode
• Wrong file color after TAB completion
• mv and cp shell commands take --help as a file name
• export fails with environment variable and home tilde
• TAB completion in the middle of the command line is unstable
• No path inserted when completing wildcards and there is only one match
• History suggestions take precedence over jump ones when using the j command
• Freeze when running with --no-autols
• When prepending "sudo" (Alt-v), it takes the color of the current word
• Empty files not colored in TAB completion
• Persistent warning prompt color after deleting a space char
• Extra line when completing multi-line commands
• Prompt disappears when editing first word and we're not at the end of the line
• Invalid command/file name taken as correct when editing first word (and fuzzy-matching is enabled)
• Wrong visible bell region when not at the end of the line
• More directory history entries (bh/fh) than MaxDirhist
• Cannot untag files tagged with a name containing spaces
• Jump is not properly forgetting directories ranked below MinJumpRank

New features/Improvements 😎

• New command: oc, a files ownership changer
• Allow setting a custom selections file (via --sel-file)
• Suggest a brief description for internal commands
• cmd<TAB> displays available commands together with a brief description
• Plugins help messages reformatted to fit clifm's format
• Specific color for fuzzy file name suggestions
• New color scheme: aqua
• New classification characters: broken symlinks (!), character device (-), and block device (+)
• Make version the default sorting order
• Extended syntax for the bookmarks command: bm add FILENAME BMNAME [SHORTCUT]
• b:<TAB> completes/suggests bookmark names (instead of paths), and b:NAME is expanded to NAME's path. The ExpandBookmarks option (just as --expand-bookmarks and the bookmarks suggestion strategy) is deprecated.
• Multi-selection for the b: and t: constructs (bookmarks and tags respectively)
• s: works exactly as sel, to be in line with b: and t:. Unlike sel, s:<TAB> works as first word as well
• net unmount <TAB> should only list mounted resources, while net mount <TAB> unmounted resources only
• Allow renaming profiles via the rename subcommand: pf rename
• List file attributes (as lsattr(1) would) in file properties (Linux only)
• Group file extensions by type in the default color scheme for easier customization
• History timestamps via the show-time subcommand: history show-time
• Search patterns history changed to /*<TAB> (instead of /<TAB>)
• Colorize jump entries in TAB completion (fzf mode): j <TAB>
• Pad bookmark names in the bookmarks screen
• Allow jump to never forget directories by setting MinJumpRank to -1

v1.9

Clifm 1.9 (Sharptooth)

Many thanks to @muellerto for all the great feedback, testing, and suggestions.

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New features/Improvements 😎

• Allow autocmds for workspaces as well, instead of just paths
• Abbreviate target path of symlinks in the properties function
• Allow starting the file preview window hidden (--fzfpreview-hidden)
• Allow the view command to select files
• Keybinding for the view command (Alt+-)
• Implement cd - (as it works in most shells)
• pc command to interactively edit file permissions
• List available MIME-types: @<TAB>
• List available file types: =<TAB>
• Optional files counter field for directories in long view
• Optionally print file size in bytes in long view
• Added timestamp seconds in long view
• Allow setting custom values to automatically run the pager
• Improve the prompt of the symlink editor (le)
• Allow the vv command to rename files passed as parameters, and not only selected files
• Improved fastback function: absolute paths are now suggested
• Private workspace settings
• Customizable welcome message via WelcomeMessageStr
• Make suggestions even when removing text via backspace
• Automatically expand bookmarks (:b), file types (=c) and mime types (@pattern)
• Improve list of available file types (=<TAB>)
• stats command now work in light mode too (reduced though)
• Make the b: (or :b) construct work as first word as well
• Send text cut via Alt-c to the kill-ring
• Do not trim file name if there's only one file and we're not in long view
• Commands help topic
• FuzzyMatching is now an option in the config file
• Improve fuzzy matching: detect consecutive chars and beginning of words (including camel case)
• Make fuzzy matching Unicode aware
• Allow exiting the bookmark creation screen via q
• Allow using tilde for bookmark paths
• Properly test UTF-8 support

Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• Wrong window offset when TAB completing tu command and fuzzy-matching is enabled
• Wrong cursor movement in some secondary prompts when Unicode text is entered
• Crash when PrintSelFiles is enabled
• Wrong ueberzug image position when running TERM -e clifmrun --fzfpreview on some terminals
• Immediately quits if executed as terminal parameter (ex: lxterminal -e clifm)
• =h<TAB> not expanding into multi-hardlink files
• If there's a file named file.txt and you type file/, file.txt is suggested anyway
• ELN APP triggers the warning prompt
• Unexpected trimmed file name in long view
• Wrong ELN pad when max files is set and files is smaller than max files
• Wrong colors for new property fields in long view
• View keybind (Alt--) not working when there's a file named view in CWD
• Multiple screen refreshes when switching profiles via keybinding
• Autocommands override some current settings
• Autocommands are evaluated backwards (from bottom to top)
• File birth time is missing for the 'p' command on NetBSD
• Type /<TAB>: another slash is inserted
• v and vv commands not expanding ELN's
• Cannot remove/rename files named -f or --force
• The viewcommand fails on some systems due to the ED escape code (^[[2J)
• Filter set from CLIFM_FILTER is lost after changing profiles
• CLIFM_FILTER="!.*\.c$" not working. The shell expands !: either use single quotes or escape !
• Suggesting jump entries from history (j query) is not useful: it hides the directory targeted by the query
• Wildcards expansion not working whit paths containing spaces: s ~/Docu\ ments/*
• Wildcards not expanded when using tilde: s ~/*<TAB>
• Wrong finder offset when TAB completing in the middle of the cmd line

v1.8

CliFM 1.8 (Otis)

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New features/Improvements 😎

• File previews for TAB completion (fzf mode only)
• clifmimg plugin to add image preview capabilities to clifm
• view command to preview files in full screen (via fzf)
• Shotgun, a built-in files previewer similar to pistol
• Remove cd prefix when suggesting jump dir and autocd is off
• Change dates color in properties (blue isn't readable on some terminals)
• Improved Unicode support for the suggestions system
• bl command automatically prepends dot to suffix if it does not start with a dot
• Flat or branch view via the fzfsel.sh plugin (-f, --flat option)
• Bypass aliases using a backslash: \alias_name
• Cygwin support
• Improved performance/portability of the suggestions system: no more slow/non-portable CPR-CUP escape sequences! These were replaced by 100% made in-house cursor position calculation plus basic/portable escape sequences: CUU, CUD, CUF, and CUB

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Bug fixes 🪲 🐛

• Issues with the ESC key in the interactive rename prompt
• Not honoring none in FzfTabOptions
• No file type color for /path/to/dir/GLOB<TAB>
• Wrong file colors when running as root
• Script in $HOME not working with arguments (e.g. ~/script.sh arg) in mimelist.clifm file
• fzfnav plugin not working with Ranger's scope.sh
• C-p keybinding is slow to respond
• C-p and C-n keybindings do not highlight history lines
• BAEJ suggestion (ex: ELN) not colored if it contains spaces
• If wrong command and C-x fails, error is printed using the wrong command color
• bl dir/file file creates only one symlink (file.link)
• Secondary prompts have issues with Unicode strings.
• Termux: TAB completing/accepting suggestion of Unicode strings not working
• Bulk create plugin (bn) stops creating files as soon as a unique quote (' or ") is found (ex. Peter's dog)
• Cannot create directory with n command if file name contains spaces
• fzfnav previews not working on Wayland
• Help message covered by image preview in fzfnav plugin
• The "Calculating..." message in the pp command is not correctly removed on some terminals
• Pager not working as expected on the Linux console
• The dragon plugin does not work with file names containing spaces
• The manpage parser stopped working due to the file extension change
• Multi-byte char takes color of previous char (if colored)
• Suggestion not removed when entering a tilde path
• Ctrl-Alt-d (remove sel) not working: conflicts with C-d to quit
• Screen refreshed upon command error: messages are lost
• Suggestion partially printed with j cmd
• FZF tab offset is broken: select a few files (make sure it takes more than one line), insert all of them, type sel again and the press TAB: FZF menu appears next to the end of the screen, making its contents unreadable.
• Wrong path as first word errs like a failed search
• fzfsel and fzfdesel plugins not working
• Wrong columns when longest file name is a directory
• mime command not taking filenames/ELNs as parameters
• Recursive search not honoring case insensitive search option
• FzfTabOptions not protected against command injection when running with --secure-cmds
• Crash when only one file is listed and TAB is the first key pressed
• Wrong path color when completing unique match via TAB
• Suggestions are broken on high-latency remote connections