Hey there,

I know a lot of people like to have ranger open new buffers in vim when you "select" a text/script/etc file. I do this by changing my EDITOR env as such:

export EDITOR="vim -g --servername GVIM --remote-silent"

This will open a new buffer in the first gvim instance opened or else open gvim with the file in the current (only) buffer. I'm sure it can be hacked to work with vim instead of gvim...

I just though I'd mention it because I remember reading somewhere (I thought it was in the ranger documentation but I can't find it now) about a common vim function which lets you open ranger from vim. I prefer to have a separate screen for ranger and then open new buffers in vim from ranger and I thought it might be worth including in the documentation...

test/tc_loader.py was broken by commit a308857 (and hasn't been fixed since):

$ git checkout a30885773f28e93b8bbe716a4ba444e90e3ba4d8
HEAD is now at a308857... fsobject.fsobject: Update previews when file changes
$ make test
................................E
======================================================================
ERROR: test_loader (tc_loader.Test1)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kniht/code/ranger/test/tc_loader.py", line 51, in test_loader
    dir.load_content(schedule=True)
  File "test/../ranger/fsobject/directory.py", line 266, in load_content
    self.load()
  File "test/../ranger/fsobject/fsobject.py", line 184, in load
    self.fm.update_preview(self.path)
AttributeError: 'OpenStruct' object has no attribute 'update_preview'

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 63 tests in 0.133s

FAILED (errors=1)
make: *** [test] Error 1

I'm not familiar enough with the code to be sure, but it appears the correct fix is simply to mock self.fm.update_preview to do nothing:

--- a/test/tc_loader.py
+++ b/test/tc_loader.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ TESTDIR = realpath(join(dirname(__file__), 'testdir'))
 class Test1(unittest.TestCase):
        def test_loader(self):
                loader = Loader()
-               fm = OpenStruct(loader=loader)
+               fm = OpenStruct(loader=loader, update_preview=lambda path: None)
                SettingsAware.settings = Fake()
                FileManagerAware.fm = fm

Hello,

I notice this weird behaviour when using ranger 1.5.5 with tmux.

This is the screenshot that explains the issue: http://imgur.com/xSS5wnq

On the left is ranger in tmux and in the middle is ranger opened in a terminal (rxvt-unicode).

Please let me know if you need more details.

Thanks
Joe

I'm using Chromium browser and there is not default opener of text/html files set for Chromium. I have to type :open_with command each time opening an HTML file, and I think similar problem may exist for other Chromium users. So I'm wondering is it possible to add a following line to ranger/config/rifle.conf.

ext x?html?, has chromium, X, flag f = chromium -- "$@"

Thanks in advance.

Hi, hut

After I upgrade ranger to 1.4.4, I found my filenames or text-preview unreadable(chinese character in utf-8), it happens in master branch also.

Thanks.

Ranger crashes with the following traceback when opened with tabs and attempting to grab path, filenames etc with the default xsel binding. The behaviour under different python versions is a little inconsistent, under python3 this crash will occur when ranger is opened from a normal terminal whereas under python2 it only crashes when using terminalprogram -x to launch a new terminal with ranger.

It's not new behaviour, I've consistently observed this since the path grabbing was introduced but hadn't found time to rule out problems on my end.

xsel is installed, testing was done with current git build and under openbox in archlinux.

python3:

• ranger /mnt/cthulhu /home/lashni

python2:

• terminator -m -x ranger /home/lashni /mnt/mythos
• gnome-terminal --maximize -x ranger /mnt/cthulhu /mnt/mythos

Ranger version: 1.5.0, executed with python 3.2.2
Locale: en_AU.UTF-8
Current file: /home/lashni/bin
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/core/main.py", line 103, in main
    fm.loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/core/fm.py", line 202, in loop
    ui.handle_input()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/gui/ui.py", line 210, in handle_input
    self.handle_key(key)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/gui/ui.py", line 146, in handle_key
    self.press(key)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/gui/ui.py", line 161, in press
    quantifier=keybuffer.quantifier)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/core/actions.py", line 111, in execute_console
    string = self.substitute_macros(string, additional=macros)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/core/actions.py", line 115, in substitute_macros
    return _MacroTemplate(string).safe_substitute(self._get_macros(),
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/core/actions.py", line 152, in _get_macros
    macros[i + 'f'] = shell_quote(tab_dir.pointed_obj.path)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'path'

Ranger crashed.  Please report this traceback at:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=ranger&func=additem

Ranger version: 1.5.0, executed with python 2.7.2
Locale: en_AU.UTF-8
Current file: /home/lashni/arch
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/main.py", line 103, in main
    fm.loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/fm.py", line 202, in loop
    ui.handle_input()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/gui/ui.py", line 210, in handle_input
    self.handle_key(key)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/gui/ui.py", line 146, in handle_key
    self.press(key)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/gui/ui.py", line 161, in press
    quantifier=keybuffer.quantifier)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/actions.py", line 111, in execute_console
    string = self.substitute_macros(string, additional=macros)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/actions.py", line 115, in substitute_macros
    return _MacroTemplate(string).safe_substitute(self._get_macros(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/actions.py", line 152, in _get_macros
    macros[i + 'f'] = shell_quote(tab_dir.pointed_obj.path)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'path'

Ranger crashed.  Please report this traceback at:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=ranger&func=additem

Hi, hut

I believe it will be more convenient if "TAB" can complete command from $PATH when invoke "open_with". Could you please add this feature to your todo list? Thank you.

Hello,

I modified the default colorscheme that ranger and ls output look more unique. Perhaps somebody wants to use it as well. So here it is.

# Joseph Tannhuber <[email protected]>, 2013
# Solarized like colorscheme, similar to solarized-dircolors
# from https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized.
# This is a modification of Roman Zimbelmann's default colorscheme.
# This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3.

from ranger.gui.colorscheme import ColorScheme
from ranger.gui.color import *

class Solarized(ColorScheme):
    progress_bar_color = blue

    def use(self, context):
        fg, bg, attr = default_colors

        if context.reset:
            return default_colors

        elif context.in_browser:
            fg = 244
            if context.selected:
                attr = reverse
            else:
                attr = normal
            if context.empty or context.error:
                bg = red
            if context.border:
                fg = default
            if context.media:
                if context.image:
                    fg = 136
                else:
                    fg = 166
            if context.container:
                fg = 61
            if context.directory:
                fg = 33
            elif context.executable and not \
                    any((context.media, context.container,
                        context.fifo, context.socket)):
                fg = 64
                attr |= bold
            if context.socket:
                fg = 136
                bg = 230
                attr |= bold
            if context.fifo:
                fg = 136
                bg = 230
                attr |= bold
            if context.device:
                fg = 244
                bg = 230
                attr |= bold
            if context.link:
                fg = context.good and 37 or 160
                bg = context.bad and 235
                attr |= bold
            if context.tag_marker and not context.selected:
                attr |= bold
                if fg in (red, magenta):
                    fg = white
                else:
                    fg = red
            if not context.selected and (context.cut or context.copied):
                fg = 234
                attr |= bold
            if context.main_column:
                if context.selected:
                    attr |= bold
                if context.marked:
                    attr |= bold
                    bg = 237
            if context.badinfo:
                if attr & reverse:
                    bg = magenta
                else:
                    fg = magenta

        elif context.in_titlebar:
            attr |= bold
            if context.hostname:
                fg = context.bad and 160 or 93
                bg = context.bad and 235
            elif context.directory:
                fg = 33
            elif context.tab:
                fg = context.good and 47 or 33
                bg = 239
            elif context.link:
                fg = cyan

        elif context.in_statusbar:
            if context.permissions:
                if context.good:
                    fg = 93
                elif context.bad:
                    fg = 160
            if context.marked:
                attr |= bold | reverse
                fg = 237
            if context.message:
                if context.bad:
                    attr |= bold
                    fg = 160
                    bg = 235
            if context.loaded:
                bg = self.progress_bar_color

        if context.text:
            if context.highlight:
                attr |= reverse

        if context.in_taskview:
            if context.title:
                fg = 93

            if context.selected:
                attr |= reverse

            if context.loaded:
                if context.selected:
                    fg = self.progress_bar_color
                else:
                    bg = self.progress_bar_color

        return fg, bg, attr

Hello.
$subj: with "type 'sort'" some text files goes into "image group" (djvu e.g.).
It's my trouble (with conf files) or issue?
Thanks.

When moving between files and directories in tmux, the background of the item remains highlighted. Also, when moving into another directory, if the previous file name was bigger than the current file at the same position in the list, the larger part still appears. This only happens in tmux, on two arch distributions of linux computers. I have tried recent patches of tmux, but I think this is a ranger issue. Pressing to redraw_window() still works. If the columns are similar in size to the filename length, this doesn't occur.

I have just installed newest version (1.5.3) but i can't preview text file.

Hi, hut

Why non-text files' default opener is editor now? It invoked open_with before.

I think the old way is better. We can't describe all types in rifle.conf, so many types are defined as unknown non-text types, it's not appropriate to open them all with editor.

I am so addicted to vim and ranger. I pressed "l, l, l", and bang! I opened a 2GB binary data file with vim by accident...

If you use cw in ranger to rename a file to a filename that already exists, this file is overwritten without warning. Ranger should give a warning or refuse the rename.

Copying and pasting a directory when a directory with the same name already exists (e.g., trying to duplicate a directory) instead places a copy within that directory.

E.g. doing yypp on a directory called tmp results in the directories tmp and tmp/tmp instead of tmp and tmp.1

In fsobject/fsobject.py:

self.document = self._mimetype.startswith('text')

Won't capture PDF files and a bunch of other document mime types.

when issuing ":delete file1" while file2 is selected, file2 is, as intended according to man where it nowhere mentions arguments, deleted
Since however a wrong delete can be critical perhaps it would be a good thing to err on the bright side and either show an error or accept the argument as file name.

ranger ~/somedir/ works fine, while ranger ~/somedir/somefile raises exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/core/runner.py", line 227, in __call__
    self.fm.signal_emit('runner.execute.before',
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'signal_emit'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ranger", line 52, in <module>
    sys.exit(ranger.main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/core/main.py", line 85, in main
    runner(files=[File(target)], mode=arg.mode, flags=arg.flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/ranger/core/runner.py", line 242, in __call__
    self.fm.signal_emit('runner.execute.after',
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'signal_emit'

Hello.
$subj

As $subject, users may run some dangerous scripts by mistake, I recommend setting editor as the default behavior for script files.

I've been experiencing irregular segfaults in ranger-master for which I can't figure out the reasons. Here is all the info I got:

• It started around the time of commit 5417dda
• I think it is a problem with curses' addstr/addnstr function
• It happens randomly, there is no specific action that causes it
• It happens more often with python3 than with python2
• It's most likely somewhere in here: git diff master 5417dda5^ ranger/gui/widgets/browsercolumn.py - but I don't see anything wrong.

Please post any clues you got.

open files using ranger will cause an error.

like j, k and space, they are not working in text previews now.

version: master, 5d688c6

When operating ranger in Cygwin, as I preview files in the last pane, I am coming into problems where the window overlay occasionally displays an error like :

25076474 [main] python 4808 C:\cygwin\bin\python.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap \\?\C:\cygwin\lib\python2.6\lib-dynload\select.dll to same address as parent: 0x2D0000 != 0x3D0000
 tags                                                                                          25090441 [main] python 5876 fork: child 4808 - died waiting for dll loading, errno 11

The command window at the bottom of ranger states:

file descriptor out of range in select()

or

[Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable

About 1 out of every 4 views will actually show a preview, the rest will show an error. I figure this is just some issue with Cygwin, but wanted to post an issue just in case.

I find this feature useful, you can treat rar,zip,iso as normal directory,
and even ftp.

May be just a little to do with action::cd.

I like your ranger so much, thanks.

the issue tracker on savannah.nongnu.org is hardly reachable. it requires you to create an account and the password policy is somehow strict.
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=ranger&func=additem

/bin/bash is not available in every platform and scope.sh will not work without it.
A first step would be to change the shebang line to #!/usr/bin/env bash and include bash as an optional requirement.
Ideally, it could be replaced with python or a more universally available shell.

If the first line of plain text file is started with "#", then the color in preview will be displayed wrongly.

Like https://minus.com/mL1eWRThj/ and https://minus.com/mbqr2Ps4Ak/

Just create a file like that, press hjkl, and you will find it.

FYI:
$ ls testdir/
test.tar.gz

ranger [file] will crash ranger for python2

Enough said, its hard to remember on which tab is what when you only have numbers... vim has this too.

Hi, hut

As $subject, most programs don't support "--" argument.

For example, libreoffice doesn't support, but rifle.conf does.

And I recommend you to remove "--" from open_with, most programs fails, and all my scripts use for args in "$@" fails. Please...

This may seem pretty minor, but in trying to keep my ranger bookmarks synchronized between different machines (or when keeping dotfiles in version control), having the 'last directory' bookmark in the bookmarks file is a minor annoyance since it constantly changes. To avoid getting pestered by git or unison about changes/conflicts, I have to ignore the bookmarks file, which is a pain, because I've got a bunch of bookmarks that I like to keep synchronized!

Perhaps a small temporary file or something similar?

Thanks!
Scott

you can actually let python to parse a list of default programs.

i.e.
file extension:program1,program2,program3
doc:libreoffice,openoffice

so users dont have to touch ranger to modify the default programs.
I think the current default.py is really messy because each time a program is added, you will have to add a new handler or modify the python code.

I don't know if this is especially hard to implement or something but it'd be nice to have basic undo functionality.

There is no way to leave the console modus after pressing :. ESC, CMD-C, RETURN don't do anything. This means that once you pressed :, ranger is basically useless.

I'm using the current master 2b02078.

Hello, i want to change highlight style, when i try change scope.sh

try highlight --style=vampire --out-format=ansi "$path" && { dump | trim; exit 5; } || exit 2;;

highlight missing.
What i do wrong?

every now and then i start ranger as "su" which works just fine, but after closing ranger it changes the owner and the group of the bookmarks file of my normal user to root, which isn't very nice.
It isn't a very big deal but maybe it would be easy to change that? I don't know, but ranger is the best i wanna say. Thanks

Ranger doesn't display greek and japanese (and probably other languages) correctly in my system (FreeBSD 9.1, rxvt-unicode), while the terminal emulator itself, can.
I'm running ranger under python 2.7.3 with --with-wide-unicode and --enable-unicode-ucs4

http://ompldr.org/vaGFvMQ/2013-01-31-175146_563x257_scrot.png [13.7 K]

For instance, ":grep GNU" from ranger base dir gives:
ESC[35mESC[K/home/cci/projects/ranger/doc/help/init.pyESC[mESC[KESC[36mESC[K
:ESC[mESC[KESC[32mESC[K4ESC[mESC[KESC[36mESC[K:ESC[mESC[K# it under the terms of
the ESC[01;31mESC[KGNUESC[mESC[K General Public License as published by
...

Ranger should allow executing commands from command line parameters like vim -c

This is useful for example in file picker mode, to show only files with some extension (hidden_filter preference)

Since -c is already used by ranger, maybe it should use vim's other syntax vim +command

e.g: ranger --choosefile=file +'set hidden_filter=foobar'

Once, I run "ps -A | ranger" by mistake, and the home directory almost messed up. I think ranger really should not read stdin by default. Feature or Bug?

Hi, hut

How about adding a feature to set screen/tmux's window name automatically? It's easy, printf "\ekranger\e\\" > /dev/tty is enough.

Sure, we can use screen's shelltitle trick, but after we open a shell with "S" in ranger and come back, the name becomes "exit". So, this feature(especially when come back from shell) will be better.

Thank you.

Hitting enter on any file should launch it in external program like PDF viewer or mplayer. Ranger, however, fails to run any external program except console-based programs like vim.
I tried to see what's happening and modified runner.py, line 191:

    try:
        process = None
        try:
            process = Popen(**popen_kws)
        except OSError as e:
            self._log("Execution failed:" + e.strerror)

The exception was Bad file descriptor. Since I don't know python I can't figure out what to do. Can someone give a hint at least?

versions: python 3.2, ranger 1.4.1 (stable)

hey, i tried to checkout and got an error, like below:

$ git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/ranger.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/thet/dev-repos/gnu.org/ranger/.git/
error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 405

but well, i'll use https://github.com/hut/ranger

thanks for this wonderful blazing fast piece of software! nonautilus or pcmanfm anymore needed :)

Hi Hut,
I recently switched to the colemak keyboard layout (http://colemak.com). The j and k letters are replaced with n and e. So I tried to overwrite ranger mappings in ~/.config/ranger/keys.py:

from ranger.api.keys import *
map = vim_aliases = KeyMapWithDirections()
map.dir('n', alias='<down>')
map.dir('e', alias='<up>')

The new e mapping works well. n does not. I think it is because n is already mapped by ranger.
So I'd like to replace this mapping with mine, but I can't figure out how to proceed. Any help would be much appreciated.

I was using the scope.sh that ships with Ranger for previews. But it turned out Ranger wasn't able to highlight (quite a few of) program sources, and my investigation shows that it's due to highlight not taking care of SIGPIPE:

~/tmp$ for i in `seq 200`; do echo '#include <stdio.h>' >> a.c; done
~/tmp$ highlight --out-format=ansi a.c | sed 1q; echo ${PIPESTATUS[@]}
#include <stdio.h>
141 0

141 = 128 + 13, and signal 13 is SIGPIPE. A bit weirdly this is not always happening; the cases I can identify is when the source is much longer than the part you're preserving with head -n $x (sed ${x}q in case you find head harmful like I do. :) So for programs that are a lot longer than 200 lines (the value of $maxln in scope.sh) there is a chance for highlight to exit with 141, and scope.sh sees that as a failure, returning 1 and causing Ranger to fall back to cat.

This can be solved with either of these 2 solutions:

Modify success to regard 141 as "success" exit code (works for me):

function success { local p=${PIPESTATUS[0]}; test $p = 0 -o $p = 141; }

Write a little wrapper for highlight (not tested):

function highlight { command highlight "$@"; test $? = 0 -o $? = 141; }

So I just found this project, I haven't even installed it so sorry if I missed something already implemented...

One thing that irks me about CLI file browsers/managers is that I leave the directory after I close the manager. And I close them a lot. Changes in the directory made by an external program (shell script, Ranger, vim, what have you) persist only within that application, not in the parent shell.

Functions, at least in Zsh, on the other hand, can modify the parent shell's directory, settings, etc. So some type of simple function such as ranger(){ ranger --dir-out /tmp/ranger.dir ; cd $(cat /tmp/ranger.dir)} would be just perfect for me.

Yay or nay?

Just create a text file which contains more lines than window's, you will find this bug in the preview window.

current commit hash: a95218b

file -Lb --mime-type outputs "application/octet-stream", maybe we should write a specific rule.