On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Roman Z.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 06:49:26AM -0300, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
> Hi all, it have been a while since I first met ranger but it was until
> today I realized how much it simplifies my daily console use, specially the
> work with text files =)
>
> I'm a heavy Emacs user and I read somewhere that ranger can be customized
> to run with Emacs keybindings, is this true? Alas, I can't remember where I
> read about this so I would greatly appreciate if you can point me in the
> right direction.
Hi Martin,
There's a configuration file that lets you change key bindings. You can
copy the default file to ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf by running
ranger --copy-config=rc
Then you can redefine keybindings with the 'map' command. You might
want to add something like
map <C-n> move down=1
map <C-n> move up=1
map <A-v> move down=1 pages=True
map <C-v> move up=1 pages=True
Take a look at the existing key bindings for a reference.
There is one caveat: You shouldn't keep the whole rc.conf in your
~/.config/ranger directory because if the default one changes, you still
have the old one. It's better to have a small rc.conf that only
contains the things that you added yourself.
>
> Also, one of the features I love most about ranger is the ability to
> preview text files on the fly and I have a question about this: is it
> possible to scroll the previewed file?
>
> Regards!
> Martin
If you press i (for inspect), the preview is enlarged and you can scroll
around with hjkl or ^N/^P.
Roman