Terminal: Yazi
Yazi is a Terminal-based file manager. It also has a few Vim-related key maps so it kind of fits into my little mini series of articles around the Term.
It has a column of files and folders on the left, a list of the files and folders in the current path in the middle, and a preview of the file on the right hand side.
It also has support for Vim key binings, which makes it k´quite intuitive to navigate if you have spent some time in Vim or Neovim. You use y to yank (copy) a file, you use p to paste, etc.
Install
Install all dependencies and Yazi with Homebrew:
brew install yazi ffmpeg sevenzip jq poppler fd ripgrep fzf zoxide imagemagick font-symbols-only-nerd-font
brew install yazi --HEAD
Default configuration files
Copy and paste these files to your own configuration and change the things you like.
~/.config/yazi/theme.toml~/.config/yazi/keymap.toml~/.config/yazi/yazi.toml
Plugins
- The mactag.yazi plugin enables the Mac’s tagging feature in Yazi
- The jump-to-char.yazi plugin enables an ‘f’ command to jump to the next file that starts with a specific character.
Use Yazi as a Tmux popup
When using Tmux, you can use Yazi in a "popup". This means we can bind a shortcut (I have Tmux <Prefix> + y for Yazi), which gives me an easy-to-reach file explorer in all situations.
You can do this in your .tmux.conf file.
bind C-y display-popup \
-d "#{pane_current_path}" \
-w 75% \
-h 75% \
-E "yazi"