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Ranger.vim

Ranger integration in vim and neovim

Demo

Installation

Install it with your favorite plugin manager. Example with vim-plug:

    Plug 'francoiscabrol/ranger.vim'

If you use neovim, you have to add the dependency to the plugin bclose.vim:

    Plug 'rbgrouleff/bclose.vim'

How to use it

The default shortcut for opening Ranger is <leader>f (\f by default) To disable the default key mapping, add this line in your .vimrc or init.vim: let g:ranger_map_keys = 0

then you can add a new mapping with this line: map <leader>f :Ranger<CR>.

The command for opening Ranger in the current file's directory is :Ranger. Vim will open the selected file in the current window. To open the selected file in a new tab instead use :RangerNewTab.

For opening Ranger in the current workspace, run :RangerWorkingDirectory. Vim will open the selected file in the current window. :RangerWorkingDirectoryNewTab will open the selected file in a new tab instead.

List of commands:

Ranger // open current file by default
RangerCurrentFile // Default Ranger behaviour
RangerCurrentDirectory
RangerWorkingDirectory

// open always in new tabs
RangerNewTab
RangerCurrentFileNewTab
RangerCurrentDirectoryNewTab
RangerWorkingDirectoryNewTab

// open tab, when existant or in new tab when not existant
RangerCurrentFileExistingOrNewTab
RangerCurrentDirectoryExistingOrNewTab
RangerWorkingDirectoryExistingOrNewTab

The old way to make vim open the selected file in a new tab was to add let g:ranger_open_new_tab = 1 in your .vimrc or init.vim. That way is still supported but deprecated.

Opening ranger instead of netrw when you open a directory

If you want to see vim opening ranger when you open a directory (ex: nvim ./dir or :edit ./dir), please add this in your .(n)vimrc.

let g:NERDTreeHijackNetrw = 0 // add this line if you use NERDTree
let g:ranger_replace_netrw = 1 // open ranger when vim open a directory

In order for this to work you need to install the bclose.vim plugin (see above).

Setting an other path for the temporary file

Ranger.vim uses a temporary file to store the path that was chosen, /tmp/chosenfile by default. This can be a problem if you do not have write permissions for the /tmp directory, for example on Android. There is a configuration variable for this called g:ranger_choice_file, this must be set to the path for a file that doesn't yet exist (this file is created when choosing a file and removed afterwards).

Setting a custom ranger command

By default ranger is opened with the command ranger but you can set an other custom command by setting the g:ranger_command_override variable in your .(n)vimrc.

For instance if you want to display the hidden files by default you can write:

let g:ranger_command_override = 'ranger --cmd "set show_hidden=true"'

Common issues

Using fish shell (issue #42)

Solution: if you use something else than bash or zsh you should probably need to add this line in your .vimrc: set shell=bash