Answering my own question. I have transferred from Windows to Mac and assumed vifm would work more or less as it always has for me. But the Mac install of vifm (via brew
) has a customised default vifmrc
, which is well and good but it is the cause of the issue I have raised. Specifically the line:
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nnoremap <space> :!qlmanage -p %f > /dev/null 2>&1<cr>
I will now change this mapping to use a different key. The functionality is desired but not the use of Space.
Thank you to xaizek: your answer was very helpful.