export path from the custom view

Question

Let’s assume that the custom view contains only JPG files. How to export a list of the full paths of the JPG files it contains, to open it them later with SXIV or FEH?

Guess it is not possible to use the image viewer directly from there

Answer 1

To save

:%!cat > file %Pl

To view

:%!sxiv - %Pl

or

:%!sxiv %f

See

%Pl, %f

Comments

share some commands:

command! exportFullPathSelectionWithArgument cat > %a %Pl

command! exportFullPathAllWithArgument :select * | exportFullPathSelectionWithArgument %a

command! exportFullPathSelection cat > export_full_path.txt %Pl

command! exportFullPathAll :select * | exportFullPathSelection %Pl

working in custom view as well in normal view

example in VIFM command-line:

:exportFullPathAllWithArgument file_name_of_your_choice.txt

or

:exportFullPathAll

will give from

this list

to see jpg and png pictures in custom view and normal view you can use

not recursive

%!sxiv - %Pl

or recursive

:%!sxiv %f

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additional information:

in the custom view to expand the content of directories, you can use the following mapping:

nnoremap bp Gvgg:!find %f -type f %u<CR>

Gvgg selects all entries in the pane
:!find %f -type f runs find on the selected entries
%u reads the command output as paths and opens them in a custom view
CR executes the command

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nnoremap bp Gvgg:!find %f -type f %u<CR>

Can be simplified with a range:

nnoremap bp :%!find %f -type f %u<CR>