====== Installation ====== ===== Main program ===== You need to install ranger through your package manager or via the source ===== Dependencies ===== You can install the following software: * python-chardet: in case of encoding detection problems * sudo: to use the "run as root"-feature * libcaca: for ASCII-art image previews * highlight: for syntax highlighting of code * atool: for previews of archives * w3m: for previews of images and html pages * lynx: for previews of html pages * elinks: for previews of html pages * poppler: for pdf previews * transmission-cli: for viewing bittorrent information * mediainfo: for viewing information about media files * perl-image-exiftool: for viewing information about media files ====== Configuration ====== ===== First run ===== ranger --copy-config=all Output creating: /home/warnaud/.config/ranger/rifle.conf creating: /home/warnaud/.config/ranger/commands.py creating: /home/warnaud/.config/ranger/commands_full.py creating: /home/warnaud/.config/ranger/rc.conf creating: /home/warnaud/.config/ranger/scope.sh > Please note that configuration files may change as ranger evolves. It's completely up to you to keep them up to date. > To stop ranger from loading both the default and your custom rc.conf, please set the environment variable RANGER_LOAD_DEFAULT_RC to FALSE. We just copied the default configuration files to our home ===== First Setup ===== ==== Image display ==== You can display images in the terminal! just add/modify in **~/.config/ranger/rc.conf**: # Use one of the supported image preview protocols set preview_images true By default it is set with w3m: set preview_images_method w3m :!: If the images doesn't show up correctly (as for me) please set: # Draw borders around columns? set draw_borders true ==== VCS display ==== # Be aware of version control systems and display information. set vcs_aware true :!: Works with git/mercurial/bzr :!: \\ → http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/ranger-users/2013-03/msg00007.html for a complete explanation ====== CheatSheet ====== Key combination for Ranger: {{ :cli:cheatsheet.png?nolink |}} ====== References ====== * [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ranger]] * [[http://ranger.nongnu.org/|Main site]] / [[https://github.com/hut/ranger/wiki|Wiki]] / [[http://ranger.nongnu.org/documentation.html|Documentation]]