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jk121960

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From: Palos Hills, Illinois

Registered: 2011-12-09

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi and yea I know I was just here the other day, but I wrote a command that opens feh in thumb mode in the commands file as

class th(Command):
    def execute(self):
        self.fm.run(["feh",  "--thumbnails",  "--thumb-width 120",  "--thumb-title none"], flags="d")

This opens feh in a seperate window showing the files in the current directory, is there a way to have it open like it does from rifle conf where it integrates with Ranger and shows the images in the terminal?

thanks

--jerry

PS The work around the preview files in root worked great.

thanks

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hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

drawing images in the terminal has nothing to do with rifle.conf or with feh, actually. that's a separate feature which uses a part of the w3m web browser. And currently it can only draw 1 image at a time.

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jk121960

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From: Palos Hills, Illinois

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

OK appreciate it, thanks

--jerry

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d0lphchrist

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Registered: 2011-11-16

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi hut,

thanks for this great filemanager!
I'm using it exclusively since over a year and I'm happier than I was with any other filemanager before

I've noticed that bulkrename doesn't work for me with gvim set as editor.
It opens a temporary file in gvim, but the file is always empty and even if I write filenames in there manually it says after saving and closing gvim: "No renaming to be done!".
This happens to me no matter if I start ranger using "EDITOR=gvim ranger" or setting gvim as the default editor manually in the rifle.conf .

edit: I'm using ranger-git 1.6.0.110.gd763950-1 from AUR

Last edited by d0lphchrist (2013-04-28 10:21:07)

hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-12

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi hut,

thanks for this great filemanager!
I'm using it exclusively since over a year and I'm happier than I was with any other filemanager before

I've noticed that bulkrename doesn't work for me with gvim set as editor.
It opens a temporary file in gvim, but the file is always empty and even if I write filenames in there manually it says after saving and closing gvim: "No renaming to be done!".
This happens to me no matter if I start ranger using "EDITOR=gvim ranger" or setting gvim as the default editor manually in the rifle.conf .

edit: I'm using ranger-git 1.6.0.110.gd763950-1 from AUR

Gotta mark the files first, by typing space, or search for "mark" in the man page.

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d0lphchrist

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Registered: 2011-11-16

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi hut,

thanks for this great filemanager!
I'm using it exclusively since over a year and I'm happier than I was with any other filemanager before

I've noticed that bulkrename doesn't work for me with gvim set as editor.
It opens a temporary file in gvim, but the file is always empty and even if I write filenames in there manually it says after saving and closing gvim: "No renaming to be done!".
This happens to me no matter if I start ranger using "EDITOR=gvim ranger" or setting gvim as the default editor manually in the rifle.conf .

edit: I'm using ranger-git 1.6.0.110.gd763950-1 from AUR

Gotta mark the files first, by typing space, or search for "mark" in the man page.

I know, I've used bulkrename before
I should have mentioned more explicitly that it works for me with EDITOR=vim but not with EDITOR=gvim.
This bug / missing feature also occurs to me with the default configuration (I've renamed ~/.config/ranger before starting ranger to test this).

As a quickfix I've simply changed app='editor' to app='vim' in the bulkrename class of commands.py (line 742) and use gvim as the default editor for any other textprocessing. But this is a rather hackish solution

Last edited by d0lphchrist (2013-04-30 22:07:21)

hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-12

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

@d0lphchrist
I see... the problem is that gvim forks to background like a daemon and ranger can't know when it quit. You'd have to use "gvim -f", but currently, passing options to the editor is not supported by ranger (i.e. "EDITOR='gvim -f' ranger" would not work).

So what you have to do is:

echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec gvim -f "$@"' | sudo tee /usr/bin/gvim_f
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/gvim_f
EDITOR=gvim_f ranger

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dag

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

bulkrename is a life saver especialy within vim %s/foo/bar/g

gvim comes with its own vim

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d0lphchrist

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Registered: 2011-11-16

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

@d0lphchrist
I see... the problem is that gvim forks to background like a daemon and ranger can't know when it quit. You'd have to use "gvim -f", but currently, passing options to the editor is not supported by ranger (i.e. "EDITOR='gvim -f' ranger" would not work).

So what you have to do is:

echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec gvim -f "$@"' | sudo tee /usr/bin/gvim_f
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/gvim_f
EDITOR=gvim_f ranger

I see. Thanks for the answer.
I think I'll use normal gvim for textprocessing, so I can continue to use ranger while having a textfile opened, and gvim_f for bulkrename.

chignole

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Registered: 2012-02-06

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hello all,

First of all thanks for this great file manager. I use it since about a year and i like the speed and efficiency. It goes perfectly with Awesome WM.

Anyway since i reinstalled it, all the text files open with Nano instead of VIM, the bulkrename command to, which is pretty anoying, do you know what i could do to change that ?

I looked at the riffle.conf file and found this :

#-------------------------------------------
# Misc
#-------------------------------------------
# Define the "editor" for text files as first action
mime ^text,  label editor = "$EDITOR" -- "$@"
mime ^text,  label pager  = "$PAGER" -- "$@"
!mime ^text, label editor, ext xml|csv|tex|py|pl|rb|sh|php = "$EDITOR" -- "$@"
!mime ^text, label editor, ext xml|csv|tex|py|pl|rb|sh|php = "$PAGER" -- "$@"

Looks like i should change the $EDITOR variable but i'm not sure, and i can't even tell where it is ...

Thanks by advance

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

chignole, $EDITOR is an environment variable.  There are various places it could be set such as ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc - there's also the system-wide settings in /etc/bash_profile.

You can see what the variable is set to at the command line with `echo $EDITOR`.  If you want to test whether this is the issue, you can try `EDITOR=vim ranger`.  If it then works as you'd want, then you just need to set EDITOR globally.

Of course, you could also take $EDITOR out of the ranger conf files and "hardcode" vim in.

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chignole

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Registered: 2012-02-06

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I just set vim as the default editor in my bashrc file and it works now, thanks a lot

F34R

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From: /dev/loliland

Registered: 2012-02-05

Posts: 245

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Yoo.

Can I extract rar zip file via simple command ?

mentat

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Registered: 2009-01-13

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

You can install the mighty package atool

http://www.nongnu.org/atool/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/atool/

In ranger I select the file, push `!' to enter the ranger shell interface and type:

aunpack -e %s

Otherwise you can bind the command in your .config/ranger/rc.conf

cmap ,z aunpack -e %s

press ',z' on the selected file to uncompress any archives types.

hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

You can install the mighty package atool

http://www.nongnu.org/atool/
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/atool/

In ranger I select the file, push `!' to enter the ranger shell interface and type:

aunpack -e %s

Otherwise you can bind the command in your .config/ranger/rc.conf

cmap ,z aunpack -e %s

press ',z' on the selected file to uncompress any archives types.

Or just press 1l or r1<enter>

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mentat

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

@hut
Respect.

F34R

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From: /dev/loliland

Registered: 2012-02-05

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

thanks, working

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

So I've just tried to use :bulkrename on a bunch of video files, and got the following error message:

"No module named 'ranger.fsobject.file'; ranger.fsobject is not a package"

I've never encountered this before, and I've used :bulkrename quite a bit in the past.  Any tips?

EDIT: I'm using the current git pull; probably last updated a week or so ago.  I just installed the version from [community] to give that a shot, and it works fine.

Last edited by ANOKNUSA (2013-05-20 20:48:14)

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

ANOKNUSA, you have an outdated ~/.config/ranger/commands.py. If you didn't add any custom commands, you can simply delete that file.

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ANOKNUSA

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

That did it hut,  thanks.  I must have missed an update message somewhere.

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hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I'd like to announce that there is now a central place for all your ranger questions: the ranger Q&A system!

Please ask your ranger questions there from now on; you can even post anonymously (though registration is advised). The size of this thread is making me dizzy, and many good ideas have been lost already.  I hope it will be easier to keep track of questions and answers in the new system.

edit: s/post/thread/

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gridcol

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From: Karlsruhe, Germany

Registered: 2012-03-27

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I'd like to announce that there is now a central place for all your ranger questions: the ranger Q&A system!

Please ask your ranger questions there from now on; you can even post anonymously (though registration is advised). The size of this post is making me dizzy, and many good ideas have been lost already.  I hope it will be easier to keep track of questions and answers in the new system.

Nice, thank you for all your time to make this beautiful peace of software better and better.

McDoenerKing

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Registered: 2010-06-21

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

@hut

I have a little question: Might it be possible to find some performance bottlenecks and work at them?

Reason: I am mostly using a netbook and I used ranger a lot on it for two years but for about half a year it works much slower. I use a clean install, but often moving between directories takes some seconds where it used to be almost instant.

Note: I am using vanilla installation and haven't done any configuration. If you were to find the culprits and open issues about them on github, I may be able to take a look at them and decide if I can do something about them myself! Sadly I am not familiar enough with the codebase hence the question.
Does anybody else have experienced a less fluent experience with ranger recently?

Ranger version: ranger-git from aur
System: 32-bit Archlinux
Machine: Samsung NC10Plus Netbook

Veedrac

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Registered: 2011-07-19

Posts: 81

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

@hut

I have a little question: Might it be possible to find some performance bottlenecks and work at them?

Reason: I am mostly using a netbook and I used ranger a lot on it for two years but for about half a year it works much slower. I use a clean install, but often moving between directories takes some seconds where it used to be almost instant.

Note: I am using vanilla installation and haven't done any configuration. If you were to find the culprits and open issues about them on github, I may be able to take a look at them and decide if I can do something about them myself! Sadly I am not familiar enough with the codebase hence the question.
Does anybody else have experienced a less fluent experience with ranger recently?

It's fine on my side.

You should try running "ranger --clean --profile" and holding down the "}" key. Post the top of the output.

However, you should try the new Q&A system, as this thread is too long. You don't need to sign up, even.

F34R

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi again can i search in dictionarys via command some regular expression ?