3 ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a
4 minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.
5 It ships with "rifle", a file launcher that is good at automatically finding
6 out which program to use for what file type.
8 ![screenshot](doc/screenshot.png)
10 This file describes ranger and how to get it to run. For instructions on the
11 usage, please read the man page. See doc/HACKING for development specific
12 information. For configuration, check the files in ranger/config/. They
13 are usually installed to /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/ranger/config/
14 and can be obtained with ranger's --copy-config option. The doc/examples/
15 directory contains several scripts and plugins that demonstrate how ranger can
16 be extended or combined with other programs.
18 A note to packagers: Versions meant for packaging are listed in the changelog
24 * Authors: Check the copyright notices in each source file
25 * License: GNU General Public License Version 3
26 * Website: http://ranger.nongnu.org/
27 * Download: http://ranger.nongnu.org/ranger-stable.tar.gz
28 * Bug reports: https://github.com/hut/ranger/issues
29 * git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/ranger.git
34 * An easily maintainable file manager in a high level language
35 * A quick way to switch directories and browse the file system
36 * Keep it small but useful, do one thing and do it well
37 * Console based, with smooth integration into the unix shell
42 * UTF-8 Support (if your python copy supports it)
43 * Multi-column display
44 * Preview of the selected file/directory
45 * Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/...)
46 * Renaming multiple files at once
47 * VIM-like console and hotkeys
48 * Automatically determine file types and run them with correct programs
49 * Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger
50 * Tabs, Bookmarks, Mouse support
55 * Python (tested with version 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2) with support for ncurses
56 and (optionally) wide-unicode.
57 * A pager ("less" by default)
60 * The "file" program for determining file types
61 * The python module "chardet", in case of encoding detection problems
62 * "sudo" to use the "run as root"-feature
63 * w3m for the "w3mimgdisplay" program to preview images
65 Optional, for enhanced file previews (with "scope.sh"):
66 * img2txt (from caca-utils) for ASCII-art image previews
67 * highlight for syntax highlighting of code
68 * atool for previews of archives
69 * lynx, w3m or elinks for previews of html pages
70 * pdftotext for pdf previews
71 * transmission-show for viewing bit-torrent information
72 * mediainfo or exiftool for viewing information about media files
77 Use the package manager of your operating system to install ranger.
78 Note that ranger can be started without installing by simply running ranger.py.
80 To install ranger manually:
83 This translates roughly to:
84 > sudo python setup.py install --optimize=1 --record=install_log.txt
86 This also saves a list of all installed files to install_log.txt, which you can
87 use to uninstall ranger.
92 After starting ranger, you can use the Arrow Keys (or hjkl) to navigate, Enter
93 to open a file or type Q to quit. The third column shows a preview of the
94 current file. The second is the main column and the first shows the parent
97 Ranger can automatically copy default configuration files to ~/.config/ranger
98 if you run it with the switch --copy-config. (see ranger --help for a
99 description of that switch.) Also check ranger/config/ for the default