Re: [Ranger-users] metatitle linemode does not work?

[Jan Knížek]

On 16.3.2017 18:19, John Z. wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:58:51PM +0100, Jan Knížek wrote:
>> On 16.3.2017 16:04, Wojciech Siewierski wrote:
>>> On 16.03.2017 15:42, Jan Knížek wrote:
>>>> I run `:prompt_metadata a` and enter value. Then do it again and the 
>>>> previous value is the default value of the input. So I assume it is saved. 
>>>> Plus it is stored in the .metadata.json file.
>>>>
>>>> But when I type `Mt`, no metadata is visible for the files.
>>>>
>>>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>> It seems the docs are a bit lacking. The metatitle linemode uses some
>>> very specific metadata fields by default. "title", "authors" and "year"
>>> (and only if "title" is present). No other fields are displayed by this
>>> linemode, specifically not "a".
>>>
>> Yeah, the docs would deserve a bit of care.Thank you very much for the 
>> anwser.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> JK
> Sorry for slight offtopic - but would it be worthwhile to maybe start a
> wiki somewhere?
> I'd probably contribute...
It's actually stated here: 
https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Official-user-guide#metadata