chafa
📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century. (by hpjansson)
vifm
Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt. (by vifm)
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| chafa | vifm | |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | 35 | |
| 2,595 | 2,629 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 9.0 | 9.5 | |
| 15 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
chafa
Posts with mentions or reviews of chafa.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
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what terminal emulator would you recommend?
Like some people here and under this post said, I like Kitty and would recommend it to anyone who uses/used Alacritty, as they are very similar in surface. I actually switch between Alacritty and Kitty pretty often, depending on my "mood". I recently went back to Kitty for image support (through chafa though, for better compatibility across terminal emulators). However, Wayland support is poor and I have some issues with fonts being too bold, although it could just be my config...
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ASCII-Gen, a Rust CLI tool that converts images to ASCII art
If you use a more modern terminal you can also use stuff like:
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UPDATE: image.nvim - Color Support
There's also https://github.com/princejoogie/chafa.nvim, which wraps https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa Did you know about that? I wonder what the differences between your plugin and that one are?
Very cool. Some terminals have their own protocol for rendering images (iTerm2, kitty). I think it would be cool if you have an option to either do the traditional ascii or the other rendering as well. chafa https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa renders images amazing in kitty. I’d love an option for that, plus gif support 🙂
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chafa.py - Terminal graphics with Python
Hello r/Python! I'm here to introduce you to a project I've been working on called chafa.py source. These are Python bindings for the amazing terminal image visualizer Chafa.
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preview images directly in neovim
this is a plugin that wraps the functionality of chafa into neovim. chafa is a way to display images in the terminal by converting it into ANSI escape sequences.
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Terminal Image and PDF Not Rendered Right/Blocky
I guess it is using https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa for that, and it needs to be using https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/tree/2c55173878906c3b221cdef16cf083f0c412bb58
- Does someone have an idea how one could create such an effect?
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Hacker News top posts: Sep 13, 2022
Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century\ (13 comments)
- Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
vifm
Posts with mentions or reviews of vifm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-24.
- Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
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Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
vifm is the best of the lot, or at least I think so.
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Which file explorer do you use?
I'm using vifm as my file manager and also as the file manager in neovim.
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Which is Best TUI file manager
vifm ist very handy to use and pretty extensible
you could try vifm: https://github.com/vifm/vifm
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Managing your files. How do you do it?
I'm already using vifm as my main-file-manager so I'm using `fm-nvim with a custom vifm-open-function to open up vifm in nvim.
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Very new to Vim. Having trouble with running programs
You might want “vifm” instead, it’s a vim inspired file manager for the CLI that will let you see files and open them … https://github.com/vifm/vifm
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Using neovim without a file tree plugin
I'm using vifm as my daily file manager, so I added it to neovim and I'm very happy with it! :)
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With great power comes great responsibility...
Hey it's already done. Vifm or nnn; take your pick. I prefer nnn since it's faster.
- Vifm: A Vim-like file manager
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chafa and vifm you can also consider the following projects:
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
imgcat - It's like cat, but for images.
fm-nvim - 🗂 Neovim plugin that lets you use your favorite terminal file managers (and fuzzy finders) from within Neovim.
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
z.lua - :zap: A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot
neo-mc - A Midnight Commander fork with scripting and other features.
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
libsixel - A SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/sixel).