The main branch is the upcoming v0.4 development version. Please see the shipped tag for the stable version of Yazi.
For breaking changes, see Migrating to Yazi v0.4.0.
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/pick/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!
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 unicode placeholders | ✅ Built-in |
| Windows Terminal (>= v1.22.2702.0) | Sixel graphics format | ✅ 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 |
| Rio | Inline images protocol | ❌ Rio doesn't correctly clear images (#1786) |
| 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.
Yazi is MIT-licensed. For more information check the LICENSE file.