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kinhodder

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Wow, thanks for all your work on this, hut.

Speaking as someone whose main machine is a Mac and has been for nigh on twenty years, this is the first time I've felt at home using a file manager on Linux. Love the extensive built-in help, too.

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litemotiv

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

seems to work fine so far mr. hut

two questions:

- can you add zP (preview_directories) to the standard keys.py?
- what exactly does flushinput do?

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

1. Yes
2. If you press many keys quickly before the first one is handled, the other keys are ignored.
It's useful if it's scrolling slowly. If you stop pressing, it will also stop scrolling :-)
But it's bad if you're copying stuff, ranger gets slow and you can't type in commands well.

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cmlr

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

(1)  '%' no longer moves to the middle, but it does with the following change.  In keys.py, after
    map = keymanager.get_context('browser')
I put:
    map.dir('%', down=50, percentage=True, absolute=True)

(2)  When there's just one file or directory showing, and I delete it, then I see [empty] highlighted.  But the preview on the right doesn't change until I press <C-R>.

cmlr

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

'zc' and 'zd' don't work.  'zP' doesn't show up among the options when you press 'z'.

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks, fixed. "zc" works, but... in a strange way.

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cmlr

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks, fixed. "zc" works, but... in a strange way.

The problem with nonempty previews of  [empty] is still there.  To repeat, this shows up when the main column has only one entry, and the preview is visible.  Deleting it means that the focus is on [empty], but the old preview still shows up unchanged.

eyolf

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Question: how do I use function keys in maps? I see that there is a line

map('<F1>', lambda arg: arg.fm.display_command_help(arg.wdg))

in keys.py in the console maps section, but if I try

map('<F7>', fm.open_console(cmode.COMMAND, 'mkdir '))

that doesn't do anything; I have to use KEY_F7 instead. It's no big deal, I can use that, I was just wondering.

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks, fixed. "zc" works, but... in a strange way.

The problem with nonempty previews of  [empty] is still there.  To repeat, this shows up when the main column has only one entry, and the preview is visible.  Deleting it means that the focus is on [empty], but the old preview still shows up unchanged.

Yup. The bug has been on the TODO list for weeks, eventually I'll fix it...

Question: how do I use function keys in maps? I see that there is a line

map('<F1>', lambda arg: arg.fm.display_command_help(arg.wdg))

in keys.py in the console maps section, but if I try

map('<F7>', fm.open_console(cmode.COMMAND, 'mkdir '))

that doesn't do anything; I have to use KEY_F7 instead. It's no big deal, I can use that, I was just wondering.

This is a bug of course. Fixed.

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Btw: Forget the plugin system. Ranger is working fine, no need to rewire everything. It would be more practical to focus on optimization now since ranger is relatively slow at copying, loading etc.

map('<F7>', fm.open_console(cmode.COMMAND, 'mkdir '))

Since the function keys are still unused, I'm going to add midnight-commander-like hotkeys by default

Last edited by hut (2010-04-19 20:42:08)

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eyolf

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Btw: Forget the plugin system. Ranger is working fine, no need to rewire everything. It would be more practical to focus on optimization now since ranger is relatively slow at copying, loading etc.

map('<F7>', fm.open_console(cmode.COMMAND, 'mkdir '))

Since the function keys are still unused, I'm going to add midnight-commander-like hotkeys by default

Excellent idea.

yvonney

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Btw: Forget the plugin system

woohoo! and perhaps a whewhew! too:)
highlights of the week are updating a brilliant and light RANGER as we now have,  and learning.

Last edited by yvonney (2010-04-22 22:44:02)

golwin

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Wow. I'm browsing the lightweight-applications page in the wiki from time to time and just stumbled on ranger. First impression: brilliant
Thanks a lot hat. I guess I will now spend some time customizing and testing features

Last edited by golwin (2010-05-01 16:21:04)

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b4283

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

the filter function wouldn't work..
i tried ":filter pdf" or ">filter pdf" but neither of them works.

anybody ?

cmlr

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

the filter function wouldn't work..
i tried ":filter pdf" or ">filter pdf" but neither of them works.

anybody ?

Filter works for me, but only if I first execute a file and then return to directory view.  Perhaps it's a bug.

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

You're going to have to type a R after you set the filter. There's a bug with the automatic reloading.

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9diov

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Register just to say thank you. Please continue your great work, hut.

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks

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Sirsurthur

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hell Hut and thanks again for this great filemanager.

Only one notice : I noticed that when I use the :find command with a word beginning or using a capital then the :find command seems not to be reactive ?

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

2. About tabs: would it be possible to replace the plain numbers with the directory name or (a shortened version of) the path?

You can now try the option "dirname_in_tabs", but sometimes it messes up the titlebar. Gonna fix that some day

(2)  When there's just one file or directory showing, and I delete it, then I see [empty] highlighted.  But the preview on the right doesn't change until I press <C-R>.

Fixed that

Only one notice : I noticed that when I use the :find command with a word beginning or using a capital then the :find command seems not to be reactive ?

Yeah the algorithm was silly. It works now.

I made it use "smart case" from VIM, which means:
only lower case letters => search case insensitive
containing upper case letters => search case sensitive

You're going to have to type a R after you set the filter. There's a bug with the automatic reloading.

Fixed as well.
Took me so long because I thought its going to be complicated...... but I can simply force a reload at the end of the command :)

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yvonney

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

apologies for not looking through all posts again for answer.
(I did do all 11 pages with a browser 'find' command for 'zh')

I would like RANGER to load with 'zh' already invoked.
So: I'd see all hidden files immediately and always. Do I need to do this with a script. um, a script I wouldn't know
how to write at this time that is.:)

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

A script? not at all. Just add this line to your ~/.ranger/options.py:
show_hidden = True

If the file doesn't exist, just create it

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yvonney

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I 99.9 percent thought there surely was a direct way. So, um, I don't assume!:)
FANTASTIC! So, I'm now creating the options.py file in ~/.ranger  using :touch options.py
then add the line.     show_hidden = True           NOTE: works great!

Last edited by yvonney (2010-04-26 23:34:35)

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Btw, in case you didn't know, all the other options are documented in here:
/usr/share/ranger/ranger/defaults/options.py

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Sirsurthur

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks a lot for your great work