Since quite some time the file-preview-window in ranger stays empty.
I.e. it indeed shows up but does not preview the content of text-files.
Image preview and .pdf
preview however does work.
The content of my ranger-config-file looks like the following:
user@computer ~ $ cat ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf
map DD shell mv %s /home/${USER}/.local/share/Trash/files/
# set colorscheme [default|jungle|snow|solarized]
set colorscheme default
set mouse_enabled false
set preview_images true
set preview_files true
Solution attempt 1:
I even explicitly inserted the line set preview_files true
into rc.conf
, all tough according to this site, ranger should preview text-file-contents by default.
Solution attempt 2:
According to archlinux the function in order to preview PDFs and images is stored in ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh
, so I did some research and figured out by this side, that scope.sh
is the script ranger runs when it tries to preview any file. I never changed it knowingly, but to be save i did reset it:
user@computer ~ $ rm ~/.config/ranger/scope.sh
user@computer ~ $ ranger --copy-config=scope
Still the preview stays empty!