At the moment I am constantly changing the rc.conf and rifle.conf files, but every time I want to test the new configuration I need to exit ranger and start again.
Is there a solution for this?
In vim I use :source ~/.vimrc to reload the configuration file, but this doesn't work in ranger.
Here is a tricky way to do this, and this may not always work if they change their code (and there could be cases where restarting ranger is better/safer).
In ranger, assuming you have a custom rc.conf in ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf, type:
:eval fm.source(fm.confpath('rc.conf'))
I tested this by changing set draw_borders true/false in ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf.
In ranger, assuming you have a custom rifle.conf in ~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf, type:
:eval fm.rifle.reload_config()
Note that this was tested with the latest Git commits.
https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Keybindings#quick-editing-rcconf says that you can use this to quickly edit the rc.conf file and source it once saving it:
map xx chain shell vim -p ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf; source ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf
and this works for scope.sh:
map xr chain shell vim -p ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh; source ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh
this is works for rifle.conf
map xr chain shell vim ~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf; eval fm.rifle.reload_config()
I'll update this reply once I know the correct configuration for commands.py. If anyone knows, please edit this.
commands.py. I wasn't able to call those functions from rifle.conf, though.
– Matthias Braun
Jan 22 at 15:59
