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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

nono...the "Del" key. The normal key to delete files in X11

First put this in your ~/.config/ranger/keys:

from ranger.api.keys import *
map = keymanager.get_context('browser')

Then you can map <DELETE> to some command. Like:

map('<DELETE>', fm.open_console('delete seriously? '))

This will delete anything instantly without confirmation:

map('<DELETE>', fm.execute_console('delete y'))

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I really like ranger! The only thing I am missing (or overlooking ?) is an incremental search function. I want to be able to type the name of a file or folder and ranger to go there instead of using the arrows to get to it.

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firecat53

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hit / and then type part of the filename and hit Enter. Works for anything in the current directory That's what you're looking for I hope!

Scott

I really like ranger! The only thing I am missing (or overlooking ?) is an incremental search function. I want to be able to type the name of a file or folder and ranger to go there instead of using the arrows to get to it.

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hurleyef

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hit / and then type part of the filename and hit Enter. Works for anything in the current directory That's what you're looking for I hope!

Scott

I really like ranger! The only thing I am missing (or overlooking ?) is an incremental search function. I want to be able to type the name of a file or folder and ranger to go there instead of using the arrows to get to it.

I've been wanting the same thing, this will do nicely.

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Also try "f" :-D

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I was looking for something in between the two With / I have to press enter and thus it is not an incremental search. With f it does do an incremental search but it automatically starts a file when it has resolved which one I want. I just want the cursor to go there.

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

No key for that.

Here's how to add one:

~/.config/ranger/commands.py:

from ranger.api.commands import *
from ranger.defaults.commands import search

class inc_search(search):
  def quick(self):
    if self.line.split(" ", 2)[1]:
      search.execute(self)

keys.py:

from ranger.api.keys import *
map = keymanager.get_context('browser')
map('x', fm.open_console('inc_search '))

Last edited by hut (2010-10-31 12:01:47)

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I can't get it to work If I press x it just goes to the next item. You do mean .config/ranger/keys.py, right?

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Oh, sorry, use open_console instead of execute_console.

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks! It is working now

I have another question, if you don't mind. What can I do to fix this:

map('<SHIFT><DELETE>', fm.open_console('delete y'))

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Not all keys have a representation in ranger. Just use the key code defined by ncurses. You can find out the codes with the little app in ranger/doc/print_keys.py.

The code for shift+delete is 383, so write:

map(383, ...)

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks! The map is working. It doens't delete the file right away however, you still have to press enter. Can this be changed?

I was also wondering if ranger would implement a real filesystem search like the find command.

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks! The map is working. It doens't delete the file right away however, you still have to press enter. Can this be changed?

I was also wondering if ranger would implement a real filesystem search like the find command.

That's implemented already, type:

#find 

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

It doesn't work the way I'd expect it to. I take it you mean with #find :shell -p find.

If you want to find a file in a subdirectory,  you have to make a weird regex. For example: say in a subdirectory called foo a file is called bar.txt.

#find bar.txt will not find anything. This is probably because the file gets listed as foo/bar.txt. If you search for that, you'll find it.

But of course, you don't know where the file is. So that's not very helpful

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

"#command" is expanded to ":shell -p command", which runs the command and pipes the output to "less". So you can do everything you could do in the shell.
For example, I got this mapping:

map('F', fm.open_console('shell -p find . | grep '))

I can type "Fbar.txt<enter>" to find foo/bar.txt.

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

there is anyway to extract and compress files directly from ranger?

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

get 'atool' and open archive files with mode 1, by typing 1l, to extract them.
For compressing, use @apack foo.tar<enter>

also: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 03#p844503

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hey Hut, I noticed (fully updated ranger-git as of today) that when doing a :chmod on a directory, the permissions line at the bottom doesn't change and can't be changed even with a refresh. The permissions actually do change, and it also works on files, just not on directories. Actually, I should say it updates....rarely But I can't find a consistent pattern. I haven't used that feature enough to say whether it's worked consistently in the past or not.

Thanks!
Scott

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

And this happens only with directories, right?
Thanks for mentioning, I uploaded a fix.

Btw. I'm thinking of removing the :chmod command, since it's easily replaced with @chmod (using /bin/chmod, which is more flexible anyway), I hope you guys don't mind?

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Question (just started using ranger) but is it possible for ranger to default to something like xdg-open in the case that no specific file handler has been defined? Would help out those of us who use Gnome/KDE and already have mimetypes registered....

I'm pretty sure there's a simple way to do this in the current config, but haven't figured out how?

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

1. Put a copy of ranger/defaults/apps.py into ~/.config/ranger/apps.py, for example by typing

ranger --copy-config=apps

2. Edit it. At the bottom of the function "def app_default" it says something about mimeopen, replace that string with xdg-open.

3. I really should've made this configurable through the options.py or something. :X

EDIT:

Indeed I am using scope.sh. By renaiming it, ranger does not crash anymore but it still does not show any preview of this .srt files. For now, I am indeed using ranger with python 3.0.

I guess I will stay with ranger/python3 for now. It's not that a big issue but wanted you to be aware of it.

Thanks for your answers,
Sirsurthur

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Edit : for your information, I also got this crash during a .pdf preview :

ranger --debug
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/ranger/core/main.py", line 85, in main
    fm.loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/ranger/core/fm.py", line 190, in loop
    loader.work()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/ranger/core/loader.py", line 234, in work
    self.fm.notify(err)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/ranger/core/loader.py", line 229, in work
    next(item.load_generator)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/ranger/core/loader.py", line 98, in generate
    read = read.decode('utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 511: unexpected end of data

Can you give me the file for which this error happens?

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Sorry, hut, I must be blind, but I can't see anything referring mimeopen in apps.py. Also, ranger --copy-config doesn't exist .

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Sorry, hut, I must be blind, but I can't see anything referring mimeopen in apps.py. Also, ranger --copy-config doesn't exist .

Okay, you didn't tell me what version you use so I just guessed

Then just add this at the bottom of the function:

return tup("xdg-open", *c)

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Great Job, thanks

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Ranger rocks!  Thanks for your great job,hut ^_^ Ranger is the only one file manager i have installed.
Just one question: is it possible to map key to do combined actions,for example,can i map J to firstly move down and then enter ? ( J = j+l )