The Ranger File Browser

[@gamefreak6126]

Your videos are a blessing! I binge watched them, even though I’m an avid arch user for some time now! Absolutely inspiring KZbin videos, always learning something new! Keep up your good work I absolutely appreciate it!

[@mustafababdullah2485]

Ranger also works really well with icons from nerd fonts I've used it both in i3 and awesome wm.

[@chimak111]

With a little fiddling, Ranger can preview svgs as well.

[@mustafababdullah2485]

@@chimak111 works really great in vim or nvim and it looks great because it takes my vim colors and themes well

[@roguegenesis7020]

@@mustafababdullah2485 what are nerd fonts?

[@AschKris]

@@chimak111 and thumbnails from videos, pdfs and pictures

[@bakieral]

Good short review. At one of your past videos you had commented that you would do a ranger review, and you’ve done it.

[@warplanner8852]

XTREE and XTG from the early DOS days. Look it up!

[@dingokidneys]

I think I'll use Ranger from here on! Looks really slick.

[@GhostCoder83]

I use Ranger fm extensively in my terminal.

[@Chris-ip8uv]

Outstanding! What are you using that allows you to pull up the images and the video? And, is editing the conf file need to have that work? And, your desktop there - is it a WM or a DE?

[@eflinux]

No, that works out of the box, at least in a DE. On a WM you might have to install some extra plugins.

[@Chris-ip8uv]

@@eflinux I also loved that your previews are in "floating" windows. Made an adjustment for mpv and feh in my dwm conf and it works as you demonstrated. Well done, EF, well done and thank you.

[@Mikesco3]

I like mc (midnight commander) for managing files from the command line better for now...

[@gimcrack555]

Yes, you just scratch the surface here. Surprise you didn't mention about scope or rifle here. ranger --copy-config=all Default look is OK. But I like my in a three boxes look(columns). Much more to cover, but you did get the basic's of it all. Many options for how you like to preview pane/window to look and act. Other tools that are needed to make ranger more powerful; highlight atool caca-utils w3m poppler-utils.

[@techfan7808]

Ermanno, Any chance you could do a deep dive on Grub w/ luks and how to get grub un-encrypt a luks2 part using pbkdf2? And also to set the Virtualbox EFI to boot to the correct file?

[@nicknorris1746]

What a great overview and explanation for a great tool, Thanks and great work!

[@tralphstreet]

These CLI file managers always seemed more inefficient to me than just a plain terminal. Why would I need to have CLI file manager when I can just do "ls" and perform operations on files via any program I want?

[@eflinux]

Probably a matter of personal preference. As an admin at work, I definitely use only the terminal.

[@whylde7834]

It's funny, I wanted to get into Ranger as well, yet will use the command line to most of the time. Or if I'm lazy, I'll open Thunar.

[@007arek]

file managers are faster, for example how will you move many files? Even with autocompletion it will be slow.

[@folksurvival]

Bugswriter made some videos about that.

[@PatrickConstant]

Thanks, it will be very useful to manager my several Raspberry Pi (the only acces is ssh).

[@momomaniac1234]

this package save time of openning a file manager while working on terminal

[@injiniero]

Ranger looks awesome. Thanks for this overview. What about LF file manager? I've read a lot about it but I should like to know your opinion.

[@Appalling68]

Hey Ermanno. I don't understand why one would use this? Is something one would use along with a WM? If so, guess this is out of my domain. Thank you anyway for the totally instructional videos!

[@eflinux]

I guess it comes down to personal preference. I like both approaches, terminal and file browser, although I tend to use the first one the most.

[@thracesia6023]

You are awesome

[@rmcellig]

Love it!😀

[@tlumme]

I use midnight commander.

[@GeorgevanderWesthuizen1]

All the arcane, apocryphal shortcut keys for ranger is a deal breaker for me. I'll stick to mc, too.

[@DavidPujadas-ep1vi]

👍 :)

[@easysleep5521]

Awesome!!!!

[@akankshc5707]

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