ranger

Ranger

You can from here(ranger github) know more.

This is my ranger configuration with some special setting. If you want, you can use it.

Settings

Show hidden file by default. Show line number by default.

Many operations are the same as vim.

Cursor movement

←	↓	↑	→
h	j	k	l

shortcut	action
J	move cursor down 5 line
K	move cursor up 5 line
alt+j	scroll preview down 1 line
alt+k	scroll preview up 1 line
[	parent up 1 line
]	parent down 1 line
H	prevous history
L	next history

File operation

shortcut	action
e	edit
q/Q	quit / quit all
r	rename
cw	batch rename
tf	touch file
td	make a directory
f	ftsea (real-time search under the current path )
F	start fzf select
C	compressed files (.rar .tar.gz .zip .7z)
X	unzip files
S	reach the current path
zh	show hidden files toggle

Command operation

shortcut	action
: or ;	console
V	sudo nvim
R	reload cwd
o	sort file
z	settings
g	jump

Window management

shortcut	action
ctrl+n	new tab
ctrl+w	close tab
tab	next tab
shift+tab	previous tab
<alt>+1~9	select tab 1~9

Bookmarks / Tagging / Marking setting

shortcut	action
'+<any>	enter bookmark <any>
m+<any>	set bookmark <any>
um+<any>	unset bookmark <any>
T	tag toogel
uT	tag remove
<space>	mark one file toggel
v	mark all file toogel

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Ranger Devicons plugin

This plugin introduces a new linemode that prefixes file names with a file icon, here is its address.

This plugin uses glyphs from a patched NERDfont,https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

For pacman

sudo pacman -S nerd-fonts-complete
sudo pacman -S adobe-source-code-pro-fonts

For MacOS

Best optio if on macOS and want to use Homebrew.

All fonts are available via Homebrew Cask Fonts on macOS (OS X)

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew cask install font-hack-nerd-fontn

If the NerdFont installed and the icons will not properly appear in Ranger.

So may you need to select the font in you terminal.

Preview

• If you want to preview pictures, remember to install w3m.
• If you want to preview PDF, remember to install fmt.
• If you want to preview vedio, remember to install ffmpegthumbnailer. It's used to generate a thumbnail of a vedio.
• If you want to compressed file, you should install stool.

For preview image

Since 1.6.0, ranger can preview images in full color. This works by calling a program named w3mimgdisplay that's included in the w3m web browser, which draws images directly into the terminal.

If you system is MacOS, when you install the w3m the imgdisplay default is disable. I don't find some good way to solve this.

But if you use iTerm2, a Mac OS X terminal replacement, you can enable a method that takes advantage of the built-in drawing functionality so you won't need w3m.

with w3m

• install w3m wth the image drawing feature. On Arch Linux, the package is called "w3m", on Debian and Fedora it's "w3m-img".
• terminal call w3m -version, you should see image in the tips.
• Add the line set preview_images true to your ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf.
• Add the line set preview_images_method w3m to your ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf.
• Restart ranger and navigate to an image file.

with iTerm2

NOTE: You need at least iTerm2 version 2.9 for the image preview feature to work.

• Add the line set preview_images true to your ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf.
• Add the line set preview_images_method iterm2 to your ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf.
• Restart ranger and navigate to an image file.