vifm jumps with a hotkey

Question

When I use this key binding

nnoremap <silent> \yf :!echo %f:p | tr ' ' '\n' | head -c -1 | xclip -in -selection clipboard<cr>

vifm kind of jumps, it briefly shows the terminal and come back.

Is there an explanation for this n any potential solution to fix this?
Thank you

Answer 1

Vifm doesn't know beforehand what kind of command you're running and temporarily turns of UI so it doesn't get garbled or affects the command. Use %i macro in cases where you don't care about command's output.

By the way, there is a better way of adding newlines which isn't sensitive to file names with spaces:

nnoremap <silent> \yf :!head -c -1 %Pl | xclip -in -selection clipboard %i<cr>

Comments

Great, thank you!