ranger
ranger is a terminal
file manager. Moving around and manipulating files with ranger
tends to be faster than the equivalent
cd/ls/mv/cp/rm/etc.
shell commands. For exploring a file system, ranger is much
faster than cd and ls since one just
presses h and l to go up and down the
file hierarchy and always can see the current files. The
operations on files
mv/cp/rm/etc. require
typing the paths of both the source and destination, while in
ranger one simply acts on the file currently under the cursor.
In general, operations in ranger are faster since the path does
not need to be explicitly specified unlike shell commands in the
terminal.
Previews
- Image previews
Edit rc.conf:
set preview_images true
set preview_images_method ueberzug
preview_images_method can also be set to
w3m for general terminals.
For the rest of the previews, edit scope.sh:
- Videos
pacman -S ffmpegthumbnailer
pacman -S pdftoppm
- Syntax highlighting (without
bat)
Use the package highlight. To pick a theme, copy
the scope via ranger --copy-config=scope and edit
the variable HIGHLIGHT_STYLE near the top. To use a
base16 theme, replace the highlight command near the bottom.
- Syntax highlighting (with
bat)
pacman -S bat