Questions tagged [ranger]
Ranger is a terminal-based file manager with vi-style key bindings.
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Ranger: Add Foxit pdf reader to rifle.conf
I've Zathura as my default pdf viewer which is fine. I've also installed Foxit Reader but it doesn't show up when I try to open any pdf file in ranger with r key. I tried adding following line in my ...
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ranger “set preview_files true” does not work
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 ...
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How to create multiple directories in Ranger?
As in the equivalent of mkdir dir1 dir2 when running in bash. This creates two separate directories, dir1 and dir2.
If you run :mkdir dir1 dir2 in ranger, it simply creates a directory called 'dir1 ...
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How do you go back to the previous directory in Ranger?
In Ranger you can go to a directory with g. When you type g it gives you a list of places you can very easily go. For example g, and then p takes me to /tmp. How do I get back to the directory I was ...
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How do I delete a single one-off file without disturbing the batch-job I'm making?
As a follow up to this question, how do I delete a single file without losing the selection that I've already got?
for i in $(seq 1 5); do touch "$i.jpg"; done;
mkdir subdir
Let's say you marked 1....
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Batch moving a custom set of images with Ranger? [duplicate]
This is a question for the Ranger (file manager)
Let's say that I have a directory with five files..
for i in $(seq 1 5); do touch "$i.jpg"; done;
mkdir subdir
How would I move 1.jpg, and 4.jpg, ...
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Where is the editor choice kept in ranger?
On a fresh ranger install I tried to open neofetch config with ranger and selected ed to see what is it. I am glad Ctrl+D worked to exit the ed, but now ranger opens all files with it. Restarting ...
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How to change relative symlinked path to “actual” one (in ranger or terminal)
What is actual path? Consider folder A in the file system and a symlinked B to it. Consider currently in ranger (or terminal) inside a sub-directory within B such as /home/B/sub1/sub2 which is in fact ...
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How can I view current file only instead of all marked files in ranger?
In the ranger file manager, https://github.com/ranger/ranger, how can I open the currently selected file instead of all marked files?
I'd like to iterate through a directory and choose whether I mark ...
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Ranger will not preview images or text
I have tried sudo apt-get purge ranger and then reinstalling it, but I have not been able to find anything that works. My python version is 2.7.
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How to bind a keyboard shortcut in zsh to a program requiring stdin?
This is a follow-up to this question: I'm trying to create a keyboard shortcut for the terminal file manager ranger, in order to jump from the zsh prompt into the file manager with a single keystroke. ...
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Ranger, open file freeze the terminal
I set Viewnior for open image files, but when I open any image file (jpg or png) ranger stays frozen or something similar, and I only can return to ranger when I close the app that opened the file. ...
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How to “follow” symlink in Ranger to open containing directory of target?
In Ranger, I often have symlink and I want to go to the containing directory of the file that is linked to. How to do this with Ranger?
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Atom crashes after closing the file manager ranger
When I open a file with atom through ranger and than close the terminal which executes ranger, it causes the atom editor to close too, my configuration file looks like:
user@computer ~ $ cat ~/....
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Default application used for “open folder” in popup menu
When I enter, for instance, xdg-mime query filetype Video/movie.mkv, the output is video/x-matroska; if I then enter xdg-mime query default video/x-matroska, the output is mplayer.desktop, and that is ...
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xmodmap key bindings reset when I open a new tab in the shell
When I open a shell in ranger with shift-s, open vim and then open a shell with :sh or open a new shell tab with ctrl-shift-t, my xmodmap keybindings (swapped caps lock and escape keys) are reset. ...
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Refresh the cache of ranger file manager
How do I refresh ranger file manager? It automatically refreshes if a file is changed/edited/created/removed inside current directory, but I want to be able to force it to do so. How would I do that?
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How to enable syntax highlighting in ranger preview?
I have seen some screenshots where ranger uses syntax-highlighting in its preview window. So I was wondering how to enable this feature and found out that I need the scope.sh file in the directory
/...
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Preview files in ranger
I have been able to preview images in ranger. But for some reason I don't have file preview. Not for any type of files. Not for compressed files either. I'm running linux mint and ranger v1.7.1. How ...
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Is there a way to get ranger to syntax-highlight files using the X colorscheme of the terminal?
The file manager ranger works great, and uses the normal X resources color scheme of my terminal (urxvt). But when it shows a preview of files and highlights their syntax (presumably using highlight ...
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Ranger cannot open pdf files with Foxitreader
I have the following lines in my rifle.conf for reading pdf files:
ext pdf, has foxitreader, X, flag f = foxitreader -- "$@"
ext pdf, has evince, X, flag f = evince -- "$@"
ext pdf, has zathura, ...
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Ranger file manager becomes unresponsive on using some applications
Suppose I open a text file using Emacs or a picture using Gimp then the Ranger file manager becomes unresponsive till you close this application.
However if I open the same text file say using Gedit ...
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Preview PDF as image in ranger
How can I preview PDFs as images in ranger? By default it uses pdftotext (in the scope.sh preview configuration file), but I would like to use pdfimages, pdftoppm, or another graphical solution ...
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Open file behavior using Ranger in Windows Subsystem for Linux
I am using Microsoft Windows ([Version 10.0.15063]) subsystem for Linux and observe an unexpected behavior when opening files using Ranger file manager in bash.
For example, I have ~/.config/rifle....
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Ranger file manager custom window title
I'm using the Ranger file manager on a daily basis but there is one thing that I wish I could modify.
Namely, having multiple ranger windows open, this is what the window titles look like (I'm using ...
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Sort files in specific folder with ranger
I would like to sort the files in my Screenshots folder by date, so I added the following to my rc.conf:
setlocal PATH=~/Screenshots sort mtime
setlocal PATH=~/Screenshots sort_reverse False
But it ...
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How to create a new file / directory using ranger?
I suppose I could use mkdir / touch but I'm not sure if these would go in the current directory as viewed in ranger.
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Ranger what program is opening file?
I'm using ranger and when I navigate to a folder with audio files and press enter it plays mp3 files in terminal.
The terminal audio program isn't my default as when I double click from GUI a ...
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How to change the default text editor in ranger?
Currently, ranger will only open text files with nano, and I want it to open them with vim.
As per the Arch Wiki I have tried adding
has xdg-open, flag f = xdg-open "$1"
ext txt = vim "$@"
to rifle....
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How can I move all `marked` files to another directory in ranger?
When I select multiple files within ranger (using <Space> or V), how do I move these selected files to another directory?
I've tried to use dd and pp, but this only moves the file that's ...
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Ranger - open_with without suspending
When I open a file into ranger with a GUI application not listed in the rifle.conf file (i.e. using the open_with command), the ranger terminal window gets "suspended" until I close the GUI app.
For ...
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Ranger show next / prev tab binds do not work
I have updated the rc.conf file :
map <a-right> tab_move 1
map <a-left> tab_move -1
But these keyboard shortcuts do not work. They do work if I substitute the left and right to other ...
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Store opened tabs of sessions into file
Is it possible to store the current ranger session into a file so to restore it at a later point in time?
EDIT: I ask this question because I use many different ranger sessions and tabs inside a tmux ...
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Ranger cd into a folder?
I'm using Ranger to navigate around my file system.
Is there a shortcut where I cd into that folder?
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How to script ranger to copy a file to another directory via python
ranger is a command line file manager that can be extended with python. The commands.py file contains examples of the built in commands:
https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/master/ranger/config/...
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“Union” based file manager
I would like to be able to perform actions on files in different locations within a common window/container. Let's say I have the following directory structure:
└── DCIM
├── browser-photos
│ ...
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“scope.sh” is lacking for ranger file manager
Ranger is a file manager using Miller columns to navigate between the tree.
It has an external script called scope.sh that previews files utilizing external applications such as the .torrent files ...
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Bicon. Incorrect exit from shell, open in ranger
Installed bicon-git, this is written in .bashrc
# hack to launch bicon if not launched
if ! [[ "$(ps -p $(ps -p $(echo $$) -o ppid=) -o comm=)" =~ 'bicon'* ]]; then
bicon.bin
fi
Launch ranger
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What does the the red star / asterix indicate in Ranger?
What does the red star mean in the Ranger file navigator?
Result of running ls -la in same directory:
drwxrwxr-x 2 philip philip 4096 Oct 18 23:45 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 philip philip 4096 Oct 18 23:36 ..
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How do I find out what program ranger is using to preview a file?
I am using the ranger terminal based file manager to navigate and view files.
When I navigate to a folder which contains pdf files, and position the cursor on a PDF file ranger reads the file and ...
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Open multiple files from ranger in vim
When I highlight multiple files in ranger from the same dir, I can open them all in vim with r and than 0 or @ and than add vim. But if I highlight files from different dirs, than this doesn't work. ...
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shell commands with quotation marks in ranger
I like to open the highlighted file in ranger in split of remote vim session.
:shell vim --remote-send "<C-\><C-n>:vsp %d/%f<CR>"
Rather than file /path/to/directory/highlighted-...
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Execute command on ranger selection?
I haven't found an advanced tutorial on ranger yet, so my question is: is it possible to execute a command on a selection of files in ranger?
If so, how would I do that?
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open(1) in rifle.conf for ranger on OS X
ranger
~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf
For simplicity
What one line – in the rifle configuration file – could cause open(1) to be used for all types of file?
Background
https://forums.pcbsd.org/...
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Ranger : do not try to display large files (preview)
I am using Ranger as a file explorer, and by the way it's great...
I have an issue because Ranger can display a preview of the file currently
selected. Which is quite useful but becomes problematic ...
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Set Environment Variable for Ranger File Manager
I've recently stumbled across ranger file manager and immediately took a liking to it but I'm having a problem.
How is it possible to change environment variables for ranger? I want my default editor ...
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How to cancel a copy operation in ranger file manager?
When I move files and paste in another location, sometimes I make a mistake typing yy instead dd. Then I can't find any means to cancel the copy operation.
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ranger image-preview with transparent terminal background
I like the image-preview in ranger, but I also like my terminal transparent.
Is there really no way to get the image-preview work with w3m and transparent background?
(I'm willing to change my ...
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How to refresh or reload rc.conf in ranger file manager?
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 ...
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ranger: open many files with mplayer
I use the file explorer called ranger and I wonder if it is possible to open many files in different directory with mplayer?
What I can already do is to select all the files (pressing v) from one ...
