How to browse zip files in vifm

Question

I want to be able to browse zip files and their subfolders from vifm. By default(after a clean installation) the vifm does not support such functionality.

Answer 1

If you didn't alter sample vifmrc, then it already contains necessary configuration to open zip files using FUSE. It looks like this:

filetype *.zip,*.jar,*.war,*.ear,*.oxt
       \ {Mount with fuse-zip}
       \ FUSE_MOUNT|fuse-zip %SOURCE_FILE %DESTINATION_DIR,

As you can see it invokes fuse-zip to mount archive as a directory. FUSE is probably present and working (assuming that you use GNU/Linux, but there is also OS X analogue; Windows seems to had one too, but it's probably incompatible with FUSE mounters out there), so all you need is to install fuse-zip.

The same way you can browse anything if there is a FUSE module for it (tar, rar, iso, 7z).