Questions tagged [ranger]
Ranger is a terminal-based file manager with vi-style key bindings.
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Select files in ranger using ranger
I am a bit confused about using regex in ranger (Arch Linux). I have a folder of files that look like this:
'sometexthere - I. - sometexthere'
'sometexthere - II. - sometexthere'
'sometexthere - III. -...
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How can I view an image in ranger without closing ranger?
I installed ranger console file manager on Ubuntu. I'd like to view images with it in the console (which I access via JupyterLab), so I also installed caca-utils, which contains img2txt:
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Certain file types not showing in Ranger preview
I have a bunch of csv files that are all just plain text csv files.
$ file ./*
file1.csv: ASCII text, with very long lines
file2.csv: CSV Text
I even generated file2.csv from file1.csv using cut. ...
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Ranger: yank name does not copy anything to clipboard
I am using:
ranger version: ranger-master
Python version: 3.11.8 (main, Feb 12 2024, 14:50:05) [GCC 13.2.1 20230801]
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
When I invoke yank name using yn, nothing happens. I use Arch ...
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Log of actions done in ranger?
Is it possible for ranger to record file/folder actions? I'm looking for a logging feature for every file/folder action done in ranger.
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Ranger Has incorrect colorsheme when opened with firefox
I couldn't really find a better place to ask this question and figured that if anyone would know it would be you guys.
So when I open ranger it inherits my colorscheme and styling from alacritty, ...
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How to send Alt+1 to CLI when multiple tabs are open in gnome-terminal?
Both ranger and the gnome-terminal use Alt + 1, Alt + 2 etc to switch to the corresponding tab. So if a gnome-terminal window only has one tab and ranger is open, then pressing Alt + 2 will go the ...
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How do I reset the tags in the ranger file browser?
I have made a small script to list all my tagged files with ranger with
ranger --list-tagged-files=*
and put that list into another file (called todo). After a while I deleted and changed the name of ...
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Ranger: difficulties passing strings to `open_console`
I am starting to use ranger on linux,
and I want to bind a key \ to place the string scout -ft in the ranger console.
I added in rc.conf the following:
map open_console scout -ft
this does open the ...
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ranger chain commands in config
I am using ranger as my terminal file manager and now that I understand the basics, I wanted to get a bit deeper into customizing the rc for my purposes. One thing I like to do is to map a command to ...
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Ranger file manager as the singleton instance on shell startup
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I use zsh and added to its config file a line of launching ranger on startup.
.zshrc
# A few other settings and commands.
ZSH_TMUX_AUTOSTART="true"
plugins=(tmux ...)
source ranger
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html file to picture on cli of ranger preview
I would like to preview html files in ranger as pictures similarly how pdf files can be previewed. I imagine first it would be needed to force it into A4 page or something of the like, so it's a ...
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Ranger File Manager as Default File Manager Errors
I could not get Ranger to be my default file manager using every tutorial I could find. Help is appreciated - I'll describe my attempts below:
In Default Application -> Utilities -> Other... -&...
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ranger does not show filepreview when in tmux
I just discovered a strange behavior in my ranger-setup. When browsing through source-files with ranger (where I started ranger from within tmux) I realized that the preview-pane does not show my text-...
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Opening current directory with explorer within file manager ranger (WSL)
I'm using WSL and i want a keybinding to opening windows explorer on the current directory path within ranger (file manager (https://github.com/ranger/ranger).
In the shell i can open a explorer ...
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