yazi/README.md

Yazi - ⚡️ Blazing Fast Terminal File Manager

Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.

💡 A new article explaining its internal workings: Why is Yazi Fast?

• 🚀 Full Asynchronous Support: All I/O operations are asynchronous, CPU tasks are spread across multiple threads, making the most of available resources.
• 💪 Powerful Async Task Scheduling and Management: Provides real-time progress updates, task cancellation, and internal task priority assignment.
• 🖼️ Built-in Support for Multiple Image Protocols: Also integrated with Überzug++ and Chafa, covering almost all terminals.
• 🌟 Built-in Code Highlighting and Image Decoding: Combined with the pre-loading mechanism, greatly accelerates image and normal file loading.
• 🔌 Concurrent Plugin System: UI plugins (rewriting most of the UI), functional plugins, custom previewer/preloader/fetcher; Just some pieces of Lua.
• 📡 Data Distribution Service: Built on a client-server architecture (no additional server process required), integrated with a Lua-based publish-subscribe model, achieving cross-instance communication and state persistence.
• 📦 Package Manager: Install plugins and themes with one command, keeping them up to date, or pin them to a specific version.
• 🧰 Integration with ripgrep, fd, fzf, zoxide
• 💫 Vim-like input/select/confirm/which/notify component, auto-completion for cd paths
• 🏷️ Multi-Tab Support, Cross-directory selection, Scrollable Preview (for videos, PDFs, archives, directories, code, etc.)
• 🔄 Bulk Renaming, Visual Mode, File Chooser
• 🎨 Theme System, Mouse Support, Trash Bin, Custom Layouts, CSI u
• ... and more!

https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/assets/17523360/92ff23fa-0cd5-4f04-b387-894c12265cc7

⚠️ Note: Yazi is currently in heavy development and may be unstable. The API is subject to change without prior notice.

Documentation

• Usage: https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/installation
• Features: https://yazi-rs.github.io/features

Discussion

• Discord Server (English mainly): https://discord.gg/qfADduSdJu
• Telegram Group (Chinese mainly): https://t.me/yazi_rs

Image Preview

Platform	Protocol	Support
kitty	Kitty unicode placeholders	✅ Built-in
Konsole	Kitty old protocol	✅ Built-in
iTerm2	Inline images protocol	✅ Built-in
WezTerm	Inline images protocol	✅ Built-in
Mintty (Git Bash)	Inline images protocol	✅ Built-in
foot	Sixel graphics format	✅ Built-in
Ghostty	Kitty unicode placeholders	✅ Built-in
Black Box	Sixel graphics format	✅ Built-in
VSCode	Inline images protocol	✅ Built-in
Tabby	Inline images protocol	✅ Built-in
Hyper	Inline images protocol	✅ Built-in
X11 / Wayland	Window system protocol	☑️ Überzug++ required
Fallback	ASCII art (Unicode block)	☑️ Chafa required

See https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/image-preview for details.

License

Yazi is MIT-licensed. For more information check the LICENSE file.