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++, 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 (coming soon), custom previewer, and custom preloader; Just some pieces of Lua.
- 🧰 Integration with fd, rg, fzf, zoxide
- 💫 Vim-like input/select component, auto-completion for cd paths
- 🏷️ Multi-Tab Support, Scrollable Preview (for videos, PDFs, archives, directories, code, etc.)
- 🔄 Batch Renaming, Visual Mode, File Chooser
- 🎨 Theme System, Custom Layouts, Trash Bin, CSI u
- ... and more!
example.mp4
- Discord Server (English mainly): https://discord.gg/qfADduSdJu
- Telegram Group (Chinese mainly): https://t.me/yazi_rs
| 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 old protocol | ✅ Built-in |
| Black Box | Sixel graphics format | ✅ Built-in |
| Hyper | Sixel graphics format | ✅ Built-in |
| X11 / Wayland | Window system protocol | ☑️ Überzug++ required |
| Fallback | Chafa | ☑️ Überzug++ required |
Yazi automatically selects the appropriate preview method for you, based on the priority from top to bottom.
That's relying on the $TERM, $TERM_PROGRAM, and $XDG_SESSION_TYPE variables, make sure you don't overwrite them by mistake!
For instance, if your terminal is Alacritty, which doesn't support displaying images itself, but you are running on an X11/Wayland environment, it will automatically use the "Window system protocol" to display images -- this requires you to have Überzug++ installed.
Here is a guide for tmux users: Image preview within tmux
See Feature requests for more details.
Yazi is MIT licensed. For more information check the LICENSE file.