Ranger file manager

Managing files from commandline might be cumbersome time to time. To make the job easy there are quit a lot of terminal curses based file managers available like, ranger which uses Vi keybindings.

Installation

pip install ranger-fm

usage

ranger

keybindings

Official pages

https://ranger.github.io/documentation.html https://github.com/ranger/ranger

Tabbed mode

Ctrl-n
<Tab> key to switch between tabs

Show hidden files

Ctrl-h
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To cd into current curectory after exit

https://superuser.com/questions/1043806/how-to-exit-the-ranger-file-explorer-back-to-command-prompt-but-keep-the-current

alias ranger='ranger --choosedir=$HOME/.rangerdir; LASTDIR=`cat $HOME/.rangerdir`; cd "$LASTDIR"'

Open Multiple files in vim from ranger

Select all the files with ranger

:shell vim %s

Open Multiple files in a remote vim server from ranger

:shell vim --remote %s

Ranger inside emacs

Emacs has a package called ranger and it successfully emulates ranger inside emacs and works very well.

(use-package ranger
    :straight t)