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viexp
A fast, modular terminal file manager for Linux, written in Rust — a spiritual successor to ranger that fixes its weak spots: slow startup, fragile image previews, and a hard-to-extend Python core.
Status: planning / learning project (see the roadmap).
Goals
- Blazing-fast navigation and previews (kitty graphics protocol first, SIXEL / ueberzug++ / chafa fallbacks).
- Out-of-the-box support for images, video, audio, PDF, DJVU, EPUB and Markdown — with every file-type module easy to disable or replace at runtime, no recompilation required.
- Extension model that feels native to Linux users: drop-in scripts in any language first, embedded Lua scripting later.
- Vim-style ergonomics: modal keys, tabs, marks, bulk rename,
:command line.
This repo is also a learning lab
viexp is deliberately built as a guided learning project: Rust from scratch and technical English, one 20-hour sprint at a time (Josh Kaufman's "First 20 Hours" method). All documentation lives in English inside the Obsidian vault in this repo.
License
TBD (decided before the first public release).