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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi hut, guys

I recently discovered this little marvel on this blog post: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23 … -managers/ - which being as scatterbrained as I'm I think was the author's blog ¬¬
I have two questions regarding Ranger:
1. Can I help in any way to translate it to spanish?
2. Where can I find the source code to give it away to people using other distros?

Martín

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I have two question regarding Ranger:
1. Can I help in any way to translate it to spanish?
2. Where can I find the source code to give it away to people using other distros?
Martín

1) You could fork his github project and translate
2) Github (http://github.com/hut/ranger)

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hi hut, guys

I recently discovered this little marvel on this blog post: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23 … -managers/ - which being as scatterbrained as I'm I think was the author's blog ¬¬
I have two questions regarding Ranger:
1. Can I help in any way to translate it to spanish?
2. Where can I find the source code to give it away to people using other distros?

Martín

Hello Martín
The source code can also be found here: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ranger
Just get the "latest snapshot of the master branch", or use git if you wish.
The direct url: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ranger … ter.tar.gz

About translations:
One problem is that when features change, the documentation (plus translation) has to be updated too.
So I guess it makes sense to translate stable packages only.
Please work on the master brach, I won't change (many) features until the next stable version comes out.

There are several things which can be translated:
1. man page
2. help text (press ? in ranger)
3. README file and others
4. source code comments
5. commands, like :quit, :search, ...
I don't think 4 and 5 should be translated, Here are basic instructions on 1-3:

1. For translating the man page, edit doc/ranger.1. You can preview it easily with

man -l doc/ranger.1

2. The help texts are located in ranger/help/. Only change the content, not the filenames.
3. straight forward... README, INSTALL are the most important, I guess

Translate as much as you like and send me the result, I'll create a spanish package out of it for version 1.2.0 which is coming soon.

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archman-cro

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I've come up with an idea. Is it possible to implement a "copy/paste" bar left of the rotating slash sign (which is active when you copy files)? Something similar to pacman when it downloads packages. It'd be cool to have it, so you can know how much ~time is left to copy/move some file(s).

Something like this:

=> (~5% done)
==> (~10% done)
===> etc
========> etc
==================>

Hut, can you comment on this? Can it be implemented?

cbrunos

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hello everybody!
Sorry if this was already asked, but how do I can easily unmount media with ranger?
Thanks!

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Army

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

ignore me

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archman-cro

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hello everybody!
Sorry if this was already asked, but how do I can easily unmount media with ranger?
Thanks!

I don't think ranger can mount/unmount media. I just use mount/umount in a terminal. It's easy.

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I've come up with an idea. Is it possible to implement a "copy/paste" bar left of the rotating slash sign (which is active when you copy files)? Something similar to pacman when it downloads packages. It'd be cool to have it, so you can know how much ~time is left to copy/move some file(s).

Something like this:

=> (~5% done)
==> (~10% done)
===> etc
========> etc
==================>

Hut, can you comment on this? Can it be implemented?

I've got little time for ranger at the moment, and in this time I'm working on implementing other ideas. Perhaps in the future.

Hello everybody!
Sorry if this was already asked, but how do I can easily unmount media with ranger?
Thanks!

I don't think ranger can mount/unmount media. I just use mount/umount in a terminal. It's easy.

Try selecting the root directory of the medium and type @umount<enter>
(This doesnt work ("device busy") if you started ranger from inside a directory on this medium.)

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cbrunos

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hello everybody!
Sorry if this was already asked, but how do I can easily unmount media with ranger?
Thanks!

Try selecting the root directory of the medium and type @umount<enter>
(This doesnt work ("device busy") if you started ranger from inside a directory on this medium.)

It works! Thanks a lot, I won't be needing pcmanfm anymore ^^
This file manager is really great!

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hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Version 1.2 (stable) is out on the git and soon in the AUR too.

1.1.2 -> 1.2:
* !!! Changed the default configuration directory to ~/.config/ranger !!!
* Removed "Console Modes", each old mode is now a simple command
* Disabled file previews by default if ranger is used by root
* Allow to jump to specific help sections by typing two numbers, e.g. 13?
* Added keys: da, dr, ya, yr for adding and removing files from copy buffer
* Added keys: gl and gL to resolve links, see 11?
* Added key: pL to create a relative symlink
* Added %<LETTER> and %<N><LETTER> macros for the console, see 33?
* Fixed ansi codes for colors in the pager
* Use the file ~/.mime.types for mime type detection
* Several clean-ups and fixes

Planned for the next version:
1. Simplified configuration file (One vim-like rc file with a list of commands and one command definition file in python.)
The prototype for the rc file is here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ranger … ts/rc?h=rc
Command definitions would look pretty much like the current commands.py.
2. Perhaps lazy loading of directories for speed improvement, perhaps threads

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

discovered a really mean bug. To reproduce:

1) yy some files/folders.
2) hit pp in some folder
3) change folder

result: the files/folders that have not been copied at the time 3) happens, will be copied to the folder you switched to in 3)

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Army

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I actually _had_ this bug, but seems like it's gone. I wanted to report this a few posts ago when I edited my text to "Ignore me".

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Only one copy process runs at a time. When you start the second copy, the first will be interrupted until the second one is finished.
This is because ranger assumes the newer command is more important.
Maybe this is what you mean?

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hello,

How to open urxvt with ":terminal" in a current directory? I've tried editing "commands.py", but it doesn't open the terminal. Any hints, maybe?

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Hello,

How to open urxvt with ":terminal" in a current directory? I've tried editing "commands.py", but it doesn't open the terminal. Any hints, maybe?

In commands.py, you can change the line

self.fm.run('x-terminal-emulator', flags='d')

to

self.fm.run('urxvt', flags='d')

OR try "ln -s /usr/bin/urxvt ~/bin/x-terminal-emulator" if ~/bin is in your $PATH.

I actually _had_ this bug, but seems like it's gone. I wanted to report this a few posts ago when I edited my text to "Ignore me".

Okay, the bug IS there, it happens under these circumstances: If you yank 2 or more directories, paste them and change the directory before the copying process is complete.
This is fixed in git and version 1.2.1.

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

In commands.py, you can change the line

self.fm.run('x-terminal-emulator', flags='d')

to

self.fm.run('urxvt', flags='d')

Yeah, tried that, but it's not opening urxvt. Nothing happens.

OR try "ln -s /usr/bin/urxvt ~/bin/x-terminal-emulator" if ~/bin is in your $PATH.

Hmm, I don't have ~/bin, so what should I do?
Also, I can't find any info on "x-terminal-emulator"...

Army

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I actually _had_ this bug, but seems like it's gone. I wanted to report this a few posts ago when I edited my text to "Ignore me".

Okay, the bug IS there, it happens under these circumstances: If you yank 2 or more directories, paste them and change the directory before the copying process is complete.
This is fixed in git and version 1.2.1.

Yepp, I misunderstood the description he gave. I always had the problem, that for example when I yanked 2 big movie files and pasted them into a directory, the first one started to be copied to that directory. But in case I changed the directory while the first one was copied, the second one was copied into the directory I was in at that moment. But seems like you fixed that longer ago.

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

In commands.py, you can change the line

self.fm.run('x-terminal-emulator', flags='d')

to

self.fm.run('urxvt', flags='d')

Yeah, tried that, but it's not opening urxvt. Nothing happens.

Are you sure that your commands.py is at this location?
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ranger/commands.py
or if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set:
$HOME/.config/ranger/commands.py

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Yes,

cat $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ranger/commands.py | wc -l
622

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

Yes,

cat $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ranger/commands.py | wc -l
622

No idea... Throw any useful info you got at me.

Perhaps create a new command by putting this at the end of your commands.py:

class foo(Command):
  def execute(self):
    self.fm.notify("Let's run the urxvt!")
    self.fm.run("urxvt", flags="d")

and try the command :foo.
If there is no message "Let's run the urxvt!" in the statusbar, there's something terribly wrong.

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

It works! Thanks, man. Now I've learned another useful thing.

cmlr

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

The Ranger archwiki page, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ranger, has been marked as needing expansion.  Can anyone help with this?

ttfung

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I got a question: can we keep different sorting method among different tabs?

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

I just post in here to say that I've been using ranger for a little while, and that I like it very much .

hut

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Re: Ranger, a textbased filemanager

The Ranger archwiki page, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ranger, has been marked as needing expansion.  Can anyone help with this?

Hmm yeah. Alright. But, maybe later. Or maybe tomorrow. I'll try to remember.

I got a question: can we keep different sorting method among different tabs?

Nope ;( This is impossible at the moment.
But if you can use a text editor, you could hack in different sorting methods for specific directories in ranger/fsobject/directory.py line 294, add something like:

if self.path == "/home/ttfung/downloads":
    sort_func = self.sort_dict["mtime"]
elif self.path == ....

I just post in here to say that I've been using ranger for a little while, and that I like it very much .

Thanks.
Wow, a customer without complaints

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