Feature requests

[sxyazi]

Bugs

• Exit selection mode on leave
• Exit selection mode on yank
• Trigger Refresh manually when rename, create, in case notify-rs doesn't update in time
• Precache n+1 pages of mimetype instead of n for the better experience
• Image preview on node-pty based terminal, like Hyper canary and VSCode

Features

• Forward / Backward
  No request

• Find next/previous file (not the Search feature that's already existing)
  Requested by @teto, feature request for "find" aka jump to matching file/folder #81

• Custom preloader / previewer
  Requested by @Neurognostic, [Feature Request] Custom Preview Commands #182

• Filter files in real-time
  Requested by @musjj, Real-time filter current directory #137

• Make the preview scrollable
  Requested by cg00@Discord

• File chooser API used for Neovim plugin
  Requested by @Eric-Song-Nop

• Git integration
  Requested by @g-plane, @cap153, @cxwx

• Copy file path
  Requested by @Gajus84, Copy filename etc. not working + two possible feature requests. #70

• Mouse actions binding in keymap.toml
  Requested by @Gajus84, Copy filename etc. not working + two possible feature requests. #70

• macOS-like file tag
  Requested by @sxyazi

• Transparent images support
  No request

• GIFs images support
  Requested by @JustinBacher, Gif support? #1195

• Customizable scroll offset and popup position improvement
  No request

• Better borders style
  Requested by @sxyazi

• Case-insensitive sorting
  No request

• Emacs readline keybindings for Input component
  Requested by @teto

• Auto-completion for Input component
  Requested by @maxzinkus

• Custom manager layout
  Requested by @KeqiZeng, Feature request: configurable column_ratio #71

• Sort files naturally
  Requested by @asim215

• Show all binding keymaps
  Requested by @hackers267, @maxzinkus, add the keymap view #79

• Show file size after the filename
  Requested by @sxzz, Disk Usage Analyzer #88 (comment)

• Display of the number of currently selected/cut/copied files
  Requested by @Gajus84, More ideas for potential features #85

• A floating window to glance at more information about this file (mime-type, atime/btime/mtime, previewer, preloaders, EXIF for images/videos, etc.)
  Requested by @Gajus84, @teto, More ideas for potential features #85, remove escape characters from the logs #831 (comment)

• Re-previewing in real-time when the file content changes
  Requested by @otakutyrant, After opening and editing files with nvim in yazi, the preview is not updated automatically. #129

• Shell command history
  Requested by @mbirth, Feature requests #51 (comment)

• Sorting by file type
  Requested by @v01dnu11, Feature requests #51 (comment)

• Hide specified files or directories
  Requested by @5ouma, @grig-iv Feature requests #51 (comment), Hide specified files or directories #694

• Add --no-cwd-file to the close command
  Requested by @kockahonza, Add --no-cwd-file to close #1629

• Shell completion
  Requested by @MinaMatta98, Shell Completion #420

• Remote file management
  Requested by @Xuanwo, Integrate to OpenDAL to allow manage files on s3/azblob/gcs/oss/dopbox/gdrive... #434, Tracking issues of Remote file management #611

• Archives as directories
  Requested by @git-rz, Traverse archive files as if they were directories #417

• Auto-complete supports smart case
  Requested by @RioNight, Allow the filtering of the interactive cd (g<space>) results to be case insensitive #547

• Natural sorting supports Hungarian letters
  Requested by @og900aero, Sort_by function not work very well with hungarian letters #616

• Group tasks in Task Manager by "Running"/"Failed"
  Requested by @teto, log failed tasks #1105

• Dual panel
  Requested by @c02y, @vladimir-salvador, Feature requests #51 (comment), Dual panel like total commander  #1294

• Improve ya pack subcommand
  Requested by @uncenter, Support more Git forges with ya pack #1509, Support custom branches with ya pack #1510

• Remove package with ya pack subcommand
  No request

• Command macros
  No request

• Functional plugin support for --name=value parameters
  No request

• Previewer/preloader/fetcher support for passing parameters
  No request

• Refactor the scheduler: for actions like copy, cut, delete, separate micro and macro tasks into two phases, first gather enough information, then operations
  No request

• Redesign [filetype] to expand functionality and improve performance
  No request

• Remove x- prefixes from mime-types as it's discouraged as per rfc6838#section-3.4 - Stop yazi from opening extracted directory in GUI file Manager #1663 (reply in thread).
  No request

• Allow changing the border type of input/completion/tasks components
  Requested by @Axlefublr, feat: allow to change border type #1552

• Support UTF-16 encoded file preview for the preset code previewer
  No request

• Experimental parameter macro support (%)
  Requested by @gotbletu, Next Tab macros? #1318

• Allow changing the style of the confirm component in theme.toml
  No request

• Truncate long filenames in the file list
  Requested by @Brixy, Show file extensions if file names are truncated #903

• theme.toml supports plugin-specific styles within [plugin]
  No request

• Move mode_normal, mode_select, and mode_unset in theme.toml to a separate [mode] block as normal_open, normal_close, select_open, etc. (better names needed)
  Requested by @imsi32, Improve theme.toml #1228

• Add snap to snapcraft.io Add flatpak to flathub.org
  Requested by @DevelSSN, Add snap to snapcraft.io #1631, done in Package for flatpak #2080

• Support auto-switching between dark/light flavors
  Requested by @markmacode, Enable live update of flavor through Lua plugin API #988

• Immediately place the cursor on the first file to be copied/moved when copying/moving files
  Requested by @exquo, Focus cursor on the file after moving it to a target dir #1950

• New toggle and visual DDS event allow users to implement plugins that involve selection states
  Requested by @aidancz, cross-instance select ability? #1748

[maxzinkus]

Thank you so much for this awesome project!!

A few feature requests:

• Reset sorting to default after applying a sort
• A '?' keymap to show all keymaps (agreeing with add the keymap view #79)
• completion in the input field (for file/directory names)

Thanks again! Really cool and fast tool that will pretty much replace Finder for me.

[otakutyrant]

I hope yazi support number, relative number, and the vim-like feature to jump to a specific number, e.g., the keymap support of gg and G.

[asim215]

Probably, we can add cache reading first, and then read rest files of directory. So workers on big dirrectories will not take long time to reanalyze files. Which lead to adding correct coloring to each file according to theme.toml, and mime types.
(feat/add-cache)

[otakutyrant]

. should toggle whether show hidden files globally rathen on only the current column.

[sxyazi]

@maxzinkus

Reset sorting to default after applying a sort

The default is sorted by modified, to restore it just press ,m

keymap view / auto-completion

Added it to the Feature requests.

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@otakutyrant

jump to a specific number

sorry I probably won't implement it right now, I don't think it's a good mode and I rarely use it -- it adds an extra mental load. But I'm keeping an open mind to constructive PR to make it happen.

gg / G

You can set gg to arrow -999 and G to arrow 999 to make it work. I'll add it to the default keymap later.

. should toggle whether show hidden files globally

In my workflow, when I need to press ., I only expect to manipulate the current directory (column) to quickly show and hide those files, and to be able to remember the display state of the current directory, without affecting other directories -- this offers the possibility of more fine-grained control, just like how the Finder works in macOS. When I need to set a global display state, I will change it in the config file.

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@asim215

we can add cache reading first, and then read rest files of directory

This may affect the results of the sorting, and it's unclear how to implement it now.

[maxzinkus]

Awesome, thank you!

@maxzinkus

Reset sorting to default after applying a sort

The default is sorted by modified, to restore it just press ,m

keymap view / auto-completion

Added it to the Feature requests.

[otakutyrant]

@sxyazi How do you jump to a specific position without using number to navigate?

I need to set a global display state, how do I change it in the config file? I checked the preset and still do not figure out how.

[sxyazi]

How do you jump to a specific position without using number

I set j to arrow 1, k to arrow -1, J to arrow 5, K to arrow -5.

I use J and K when I need to walk around files quickly, I find it faster than numbers because it saves me time to think what need to type next...

I need to set a global display state, how do I change it in the config file?

Just add the following config to ~/.config/yazi/yazi.toml

[manager]
show_hidden = true

The docs are here: https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/blob/main/config/docs/yazi.md

[otakutyrant]

Sorry my expression was not clear enough. Number is clumsy certainly. But given relative number, I can just hit relativenum+j/k to jump to a specific position with one step. I wager that many people prefer this way to navigate. I mentioned number just because number and relative number are always a couple of options in vim or vim-like file managers. It is okay to only support relative number this option in yazi config.

I mistook your meaning. What I want is to globally toggle whether show hidden with . keymap. To conside mutual interest, you could allow users to decide whether show hidden files globally in config, like show_hidden_globally = false.

I have tried to learn Rust and failed thrice. Sorry that I cannot make the PRs so far.

[sxyazi]

@otakutyrant Never mind. I'd like to know your real-world usage scenarios -- in what situations would you need to change the display state of all directories, rather than the one you're currently in?

[otakutyrant]

I use stow to manage my dotfiles and there is .config in almost every package. When I navigate between different packages, I do not want to toggle whether to show hidden files respectively.

[otakutyrant]

How incovenient it is.

2023-08-24.13-52-18.mp4

No offense. As a constrast, the navigation support of joshuto is fully developed and it show/hide dotfiles globally.

2023-08-24.13-59-30.mp4

I defect to yazi now because I stuck in opening files in joshuto.