evil-ranger

https://github.com/ralesi/evil-ranger.git

git clone 'git://github.com/ralesi/evil-ranger.git'


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Evil Ranger

Table of Contents

• Evil Ranger
  • Description
  • Installation
    • Screenshot
    • Screencast
  • Todo
  • Key bindings
  • Configuration
    • Customizing
    • Ignoring Certain File Extensions During Preview

Description

This is a minor mode that runs within dired emulating many of the features of ranger. This minor mode shows a stack of the parent directories and updates the parent buffers while nvaigating the file system. The preview window takes some of the ideas from [Peep-Dired][https://github.com/asok/peep-dired] to display previews for selected files in the primary dired buffer.

Installation

Once you have setup Melpa you can use package-install command to install Evil Ranger. The package name is evil-ranger.

Screenshot

evil-ranger mode active

evil-ranger mode with preview enabled

Screencast

evil-ranger screencast

Todo

• Create bindings to go up / down the next directory
• Log evil-ranger history and allow prompt to navigate back
• Add ranger style copy and pasted
• Improve headerline display
• Set up tabs and navigation between
• DONE: Improve sorting

Key bindings

| Keybindings | Description | | ———– | ————————————– | | C-p | toggle evil-ranger in dired buffer | | j | navigate down | | k | navigate up | | C-j | scroll preview window down | | C-k | scroll preview window up | | f | search for file names | | i | show preview of current file | | zi | toggle showing literal / full-text previews | | zh | toggle showing dotfiles | | o | sort options | | h | go up directory | | l / RET | find file / enter directory | | q | quit | | r | revert buffer | | z- | reduce number of parents | | z+ | increment number of parents | | v | toggle all marks | | V | visually select lines | | S | enter shell | | C-SPC | mark current file |

Configuration

Most parameters can be toggled on and off and stay within the current emacs session. Any settings that are desired on startup should be set below.

Customizing

When disabling the mode you can choose to kill the buffers that were opened while browsing the directories. el (setq evil-ranger-cleanup-on-disable t)

Or you can choose to kill the buffer just after you move to another entry in the dired buffer. el (setq evil-ranger-cleanup-eagerly t)

You can choose to show dotfiles at ranger startup, toggled by zh el (setq evil-ranger-show-dotfiles t)

Define custom function used to output header of primary evil-ranger window. Must return a string that is placed in the header-line. el (setq evil-ranger-header-func 'evil-ranger-header-line)

Define custom function used to output header of parent and preview windows. Must return a string that is placed in the header-line. el (setq evil-ranger-parent-header-func 'evil-ranger-parent-header-line)

Parent options

You can set the number of folders to nest to the left, adjusted by z- and z+ el (setq evil-ranger-parent-depth 2)

You can set the size of the parent windows as a fraction of the frame size el (setq evil-ranger-width-parents 0.12)

When increasing number of nested parent folders, set max width as fraction of frame size to prevent filling up entire frame with parents. el (setq evil-ranger-max-parent-width 0.12)

Preview options

You can choose to show previews literally, or through find-file, toggled by zi el (setq evil-ranger-show-dotfiles t)

You can set the size of the preview windows as a fraction of the frame size el (setq evil-ranger-width-preview 0.55)

You probably don't want to open certain files like videos when using Peep Dired. To ignore certain files when moving over them you can customize the following to your liking:

(setq evil-ranger-ignored-extensions '("mkv" "iso" "mp4"))

To set the max files size (in MB), set the following parameter:

(setq evil-ranger-max-preview-size 10)