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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/spotter/fetcher; Just some pieces of Lua.
- ☁️ Virtual Filesystem: Remote file management, custom search engines.
- 📡 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, code, directories, etc.)
- 🔄 Bulk Rename/Create, Archive Extraction, Visual Mode, File Chooser, Git Integration, Mount Manager
- 🎨 Theme System, Mouse Support, Drag and Drop, Trash Bin, Custom Layouts, CSI u, OSC 52
- ... and more!
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Public beta, can be used as a daily driver.
Yazi is currently in heavy development, expect breaking changes.
- Discord Server (English mainly): https://discord.gg/qfADduSdJu
- Telegram Group (Chinese mainly): https://t.me/yazi_rs
| Platform | Protocol | Support |
|---|---|---|
| kitty (>= 0.28.0) | Kitty unicode placeholders | ✅ Built-in |
| iTerm2 | Inline images protocol | ✅ Built-in |
| WezTerm | Inline images protocol | ✅ Built-in |
| Konsole | Kitty old protocol | ✅ Built-in |
| foot | Sixel graphics format | ✅ Built-in |
| Ghostty | Kitty unicode placeholders | ✅ Built-in |
| Windows Terminal (>= v1.22.10352.0) | Sixel graphics format | ✅ Built-in |
| st with Sixel patch | Sixel graphics format | ✅ Built-in |
| Warp (macOS/Linux only) | Inline images protocol | ✅ Built-in |
| Tabby | Inline images protocol | ✅ Built-in |
| VSCode | Inline images protocol | ✅ Built-in |
| Rio (>= 0.3.9) | Kitty unicode placeholders | ✅ Built-in |
| Black Box | Sixel graphics format | ✅ Built-in |
| Bobcat | Inline images protocol | ✅ Built-in |
| X11 / Wayland | Window system protocol | ☑️ Überzug++ required |
| Fallback | ASCII art (Unicode block) | ☑️ Chafa required (>= 1.16.0) |
See https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/image-preview for details.
Thanks to RustRover team for providing open-source licenses to support the maintenance of Yazi.
Active code contributors can contact @sxyazi to get a license (if any are still available).
Yazi is MIT-licensed. For more information check the LICENSE file.