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WishCow

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Registered: 2011-01-31

Posts: 57

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hey,

Thanks for writing ranger, it's the best thing I've ever used.

I started digging into writing my own commands, and currently my cycle looks like this:

1. edit commands.py
2. launch ranger in a different window
3. navigate to my file I want to test my file on
4. :mycommand

But I only get 1 line of error messages from the python interpreter, when something goes wrong. I looked into mocking the FM and Command classes (my command depends on self.fm.thisfile, and a bunch of other self.fm.* methods/properties), but there is too much stuff to fill out.

What's the correct way to debug your own commands you are writing?

Paul-S

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From: Wales

Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 353

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

The search function is still not working for me in 1.8.1, is it working for everyone else.

Cheers
Paul-S

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Miblo

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2010-07-05

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

The search function is still not working for me in 1.8.1, is it working for everyone else.

Cheers
Paul-S

It is working for me, and without requiring any changes to my config. Could possibly be worth trying it with the default config, though.

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ryzion

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Registered: 2012-03-20

Posts: 95

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I've noticed a different behavior when copying files on my systems but didn't find where to configure it. On one system copying a file with the same name saves the old one with an appendix and copies the new one. On my other system the old one is kept with it's name and the new file is saved with an appendix. Anyone happens to know where to set this? I'm using rangers copy on both without mode settings

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fukin_jim

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Registered: 2013-02-27

Posts: 20

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

The search function is still not working for me in 1.8.1, is it working for everyone else.

Cheers
Paul-S

Was having this problem too, seems some of my config files were executable and
shouldn't have been.  Fixed that and everything was good again.

monodromy

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Registered: 2014-02-08

Posts: 62

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I'm having a problem where ranger takes several seconds to start up because I have an nfs mount in my bookmarks. If I'm away from home, the nfs mount is unavailable, and ranger hangs. The nfs is set to automount in my fstab. If I remove the bookmark, there is no lag. Is there a setting I can change to prevent this behavior? I don't want to mount the share unless I navigate to the mount point (this was the old behavior). I have automatically_count_files set to false, in case it matters. The relevant line in /etc/fstab is

192.168.0.2:/nfs/share     /mnt/point        nfs     nfsvers=3,rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,users,nofail,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10  0 0

bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 675

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Ranger keeps getting installed as my default desktop opener for directories. I hand edited /use/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache to get rid of ranger but it gets installed back, presumably after any update where the desktop cache is rebuilt. What's the way to stop this? I am on GNOME and want to use the normal default nautilus. Couldn't find anything on the default applications wiki page to help with this.

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bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 675

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Ranger keeps getting installed as my default desktop opener for directories. I hand edited /use/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache to get rid of ranger but it gets installed back, presumably after any update where the desktop cache is rebuilt. What's the way to stop this? I am on GNOME and want to use the normal default nautilus. Couldn't find anything on the default applications wiki page to help with this.

Ok, researched a bit then stuffed around a while to find a solution to my problem. It is:

ln -sf ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ~/.config/mimeapps.list
xdg-mime default org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop inode/directory

hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-12

Posts: 569

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

You should be aware of the upcoming switch to GPL 3.1 [NSFW], as explained in this issue:

ranger is 8 years old now, and it's time to fix some mistakes that stuck with us since the early days. One of those is the fact that we have no "GPL 3 or later" clause in the license text, just plain "GPL 3". But the world of free software moves ahead and we need to stay on top of our game. Civil liberties are taken from us every day and we have to fight with every weapon that we have.

So I initiated the cumbersome procedure of upgrading the license to GPL 3.1, by mailing every contributor of ranger and asking for their permission to change GPL 3 to GPL 3.1.

Currently I have 22 confirmations of the 85 contributors, and I could not reach 5 of them (their code may need to be removed from ranger).

If over 50% of the contributors agree and the major parts of ranger are covered (git-integration, image/video previews, M-x butterfly), I will proceed with the upgrade to 3.1.

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

You should be aware of the upcoming switch to GPL 3.1, as explained in this issue:

ranger is 8 years old now, and it's time to fix some mistakes that stuck with us since the early days. One of those is the fact that we have no "GPL 3 or later" clause in the license text, just plain "GPL 3". But the world of free software moves ahead and we need to stay on top of our game. Civil liberties are taken from us every day and we have to fight with every weapon that we have.

So I initiated the cumbersome procedure of upgrading the license to GPL 3.1, by mailing every contributor of ranger and asking for their permission to change GPL 3 to GPL 3.1.

Currently I have 22 confirmations of the 85 contributors, and I could not reach 5 of them (their code may need to be removed from ranger).

If over 50% of the contributors agree and the major parts of ranger are covered (git-integration, image/video previews, M-x butterfly), I will proceed with the upgrade to 3.1.

Honestly didn't even remember contributing any patches to ranger... was surprised to get the notification.

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

https://github.com/ranger/ranger/commits?author=ngoonee

ngoonee

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

https://github.com/ranger/ranger/commits?author=ngoonee

No wonder I don't remember it... such a minor thing (yay open source?). Thanks x33a.

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hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

To my surprise, few actually clicked on the link to the GPL 3.1 to see what they agree to

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ngoonee

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

To my surprise, few actually clicked on the link to the GPL 3.1 to see what they agree to

Well, my own reasoning is that if you think it's best, it's 'your' project. Why would I object, especially with such minimal contribution?

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x33a

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

https://github.com/ranger/ranger/commits?author=ngoonee

No wonder I don't remember it... such a minor thing (yay open source?). Thanks x33a.

Indeed that's the beauty of Open Source, anyone can contribute in whatever capacity they can

Alad

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Would someone mind censoring that "GPL" link, pretty annoying to see goatse in the work environment.

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Done, sorry.

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pstree

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From: Paris, France

Registered: 2013-02-24

Posts: 37

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi,

first I want to say thanks for creating ranger, it's an awesome piece of software that I've using since I've switched to Arch, and I can't imagine my desktop without it.

Recently I discovered the 'bulkrename' function, alas it does not work with gVim. It just opens up an empty temp file.
But it works fine when I switch my $EDITOR to vim or nano.

Is there any way to make it work with gVim, or at least to force it to use vim or nano ?

Thanks for your help.

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hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-12

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi there!

There is some discussion about which python versions ranger should support.  ranger has no usage tracking mechanism like firefox or other software, so I would like to ask you to participate in this poll:

http://www.strawpoll.me/13451034

If you do not like strawpoll for whatever reason, you can also just send me an email or write a post with a list of python versions that you use with ranger.

Thanks!

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi there!

There is some discussion about which python versions ranger should support.  ranger has no usage tracking mechanism like firefox or other software, so I would like to ask you to participate in this poll:

http://www.strawpoll.me/13451034

If you do not like strawpoll for whatever reason, you can also just send me an email or write a post with a list of python versions that you use with ranger.

Thanks!

Maybe some context would be useful? Unsurprisingly the results are heavily skewed towards the two current versions of python in the Arch repos.

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Stencon281

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Registered: 2016-09-21

Posts: 40

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Thanks for all the effort you've put into this! This is an extremely well made and useful file manager.

NoSuck

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Registered: 2015-03-04

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

People often report problems with NFS directories taking longer than expected to load under certain circumstances.  Symptoms have been likened to ranger unnecessarily statting every file.  I wonder:  Does mounting said NFS with "nordirplus" make any difference?

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hut

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From: Hanover, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-12

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hey people, I just wanted to let you know that v1.9.0 finally out: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/releases/tag/v1.9.0

Changelog: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/m … ANGELOG.md

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sekret

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 289

Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I never ran into one of the problems you fixed, and I didn't miss any of the features you added. But still, thanks a lot for ranger and especially for still actively developing it. This is no given!

Alad

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Fixed memory leak in w3m image preview

Finally!

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