🗀 rfm - A fast file-manager written in pure rust

rfm is a terminal file manager with Miller-columns and VI-style keybindings, built for speed. It takes a lot of inspiration from ranger and vifm, while staying snappy on huge directories and keeping the mental load low — there is no separate "console mode", you just type commands straight into the application.

rfm is beta, but has been in daily use for years without trouble. If something looks off, please open an issue or PR.

Highlights

• ⚡ Fast & responsive, even on large directories — nothing blocks your workflow
• 🗂 Miller-columns layout with instant text & image previews (no dependencies required)
• 🪟 Tabs & split view — up to four tabs, plus a vifm-style side-by-side split
• ↩️ Undo / redo for almost every file operation
• 🗑 Freedesktop trash integration with a built-in trash browser (gT)
• 📌 Jump-marks — static directory shortcuts and vim-style m/' bookmarks
• 🎨 Mime-type styling with colors and optional Nerd Font icons
• 🔎 Live search, Emacs-style cd completion and zoxide support
• 🛠 Custom shell commands bound to your own keys
• 🔧 Fully configurable keybindings, colors and file associations

Installation

Via cargo:

cargo install rfm-bin

Via nix flake:

nix run github:dsxmachina/rfm             # try it
nix profile install github:dsxmachina/rfm # install

From source:

git clone https://github.com/dsxmachina/rfm
cd rfm
cargo build --release
cp target/release/rfm /usr/local/bin/rfm

Keybindings at a glance

Everything is configurable — this is just the default set. See the full usage guide for the complete list.

Configuration

rfm reads three files from ~/.config/rfm/ (created with commented defaults on first run):

• config.toml — behaviour, colors, mime-type styles, custom commands
• keys.toml — keybindings and jump-marks
• open.toml — which application opens which file type

See docs/configuration.md for the full reference and examples/ for complete, commented sample configs.

Documentation

• Usage guide — every feature and its keybindings
• Configuration — all three config files in depth
• Extra features & integrations — richer previews, zoxide, shell cd-on-exit
• Changelog — what's new in each release

Design philosophy

• Speed first — you should almost never wait for the file manager. ranger is wonderful, but written in Python it gets sluggish on large directories.
• Low mental load — no modes where keys mean different things. Creating a directory, searching and jumping around all work the same way: just type.
• Reversible — if you go fast, you may go wrong, so operations are undoable.
• Few dependencies — the essentials work out of the box.

License

GPL-3.0