Re: [Ranger-users] Ranger GUI change towards MC-like multi pane

[Italo Cunha]

Last year's was more involved.

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 5:52 AM, hut <address@hidden> wrote:

Yes, and in the long run I target a merge with the MC project and a
renaming to Midnight Ranger!

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In seriousness, april fools is over, reverted to the old GUI.  Soon
there will be a run-time switch to change the mode on the fly, though.

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 06:36:56PM -0300, Italo Cunha wrote:
> Looks promising! Is the plan to have the usual MC shell prompt as INSERT
> mode and the usual keybindings as COMMAND mode?
>
> What about built-in commands? Are we going to have a different mode for
> that?
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:07 PM, hut <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hey there, ranger users.
> >
> > I think the time has come to admit that while ranger's the Miller Column
> > approach to file browsing may have been an interesting experiment, the
> > one and only, the true way to browse your files is demonstrated by
> > Midnight Commander. The dual pane view.
> >
> > So we have decided to ditch the old GUI and develop a multiple pane view
> > for ranger!
> >
> > Screenshot: http://hut.pm/ranger-mc.png
> >
> > Just upgrade the ranger-git package and you will experience the rush and
> > intensity that, uhm, the rest of the world has since 1986 already!
> >
> >
> > How to navigate the panes:
> >
> > 1. Create a new tab with Ctrl+n to create a new pane. (Yes, tabs are now
> >    the same as panes!)
> > 2. Tab between them with <TAB>
> >
> > Regards, hut
> >
> >