I installed vifm through macports.
If I press enter on a file, it just opens it for editing.
How can I launch a file with it's associated program?
i.e. if I have a file highlighted, is there a key I can press so that it does the same thing as
open %c
Where %c is the name of the file that's highlighted?
Best Answer
I almost accidentally saw this question and decided to provide an answer in case you're still didn't find one in the documentation.
To open files with associated programs you need to add the following command to your
~/.vifm/vifmrc
file:Then both
l
andi
keys will work for you as expected. See help on:filetype
and:filextype
in the documentation.This doesn't work out of the box, since different systems have different
open
commands and the default behavior is to open all files with Vim (for example, xdg-open for Ubuntu 16.04, as opposed to the aforementioned "open", which is specific to Mac). Maybe new version will contain a set ofopen
commands for different systems in samplevifmrc
file, so it will work from the beginning.