ranger-wsl

The content of this repository is about the configuration,scripts and custom commands of Ranger in the WSL environment

• 🚀Ranger
• 🚀WSL

You can run WindowsOS Applications in your WSL-Ranger

• 🎉editor: use your windows sublime text / notepad.exe as your default editor for Ranger
• 🎉player: use your windows browser to open Audio/Video/PDF (or use others app VLC ...)
• 🎉compress/extract: I just provide Rar.exe/unRar.exe code for WinRar.exe
• ...
• If WindowsOS App provides a command line to start, then you can integrate them into WSL-Ranger

Requirements

You need to have the following:

• 🔥 Python3.6 +

Instructions

my WSL path format is default, so the prefix is :👇

/mnt/

# eg:
# /mnt/c
# /mnt/d
# /mnt/e
# ...

all my scripts follow above path format prefix👆

🔥If you had changed your default location of WSL , eg: not /mnt/
🔥you need to change these scripts by yourself, replace to your own path format
🚀Python3.6+

Core Script

• ri_script/wsl_2_path.py
• ri_script/wsl_2_abspath.py (Just for bulkrename and Rar)
• ri_script/wsl_2_url.py (For browser)

the contents of scripts are very simple.
but the main idea is: Which applications need to be converted to which path format.

eg: you can run chrome.exe to open Video/Audio/PDF and more files

• but you cant't open them with absolute path
• you must switch: /mnt/{}/xxx to file:///{}:/xxx
• for details, you can try: ri_script/wsl_2_url.py

commands.py

• bulkrename: change editor in rc.conf => mime ^text, label editor =

  • changed: default editor is subl.exe you can set your editor 👆

• fzf_select

  • refer from ranger-wiki:
  • changed: some code and add my fzf remap/config

• fzf_mark

  • I add the fzf_mark, you can also see fzf_mark

• extract_here & compress

  • refer from archlinux-wiki
  • changed: replace atool in ArchLinux to WinRAR.exe in Windows for WSL

rifle.conf

you can see the type of files name suffix and associated WindowsOS Applications

rc.conf

you can see above 👆 commands.py remap in rc.conf

end of rc.conf => source ~/rc_remap.conf is for AutoWalk 👇

AutoWalk

you can AutoWalk to bulk add remap for Ranger for paths in your filesystem

Others

JupyterLab For Ranger

In ranger, you can open .ipynb on JupyterLab directly;
But it depends on PM2; add below in your rifle.conf:

ext ipynb  = python3 ~/ri_script/jlab_ranger.py $1

Note: you need to adjust the paths of the script: ri_script/jlab_ranger.py to your home_dir

Launch WSL Application on Windows directly

Maybe some configure didn't work with wsl.exe --exec, you can try 👇

put source application configure into /etc/profile

Q: Why /etc/profile rather than ~/.zshrc ?
A: Decoupling makes bash faster than zsh for launching (Ranger just needs fzf configure)

echo '[ -f ~/.fzf.zsh ] && source ~/.fzf.zsh' >> /etc/profile

then put below code into your windows app manager (Lnk ...)

wsl.exe  --exec /bin/zsh -c "source /etc/profile && ranger /mnt/d/test"