From 0a32b6845829751de8fc2fd4957c360bb4162ace Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hut Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:54:25 +0100 Subject: README: updated --- README | 35 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 88d9523f..809ce905 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,22 +6,25 @@ Ranger A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region to protect the area or enforce the law. -This file browser gives you the ability to swiftly move around -and get a broad overview of your forest of directory trees. +Need a fast way of navigating in your shell? Hate ugly graphical +environments? Try this console-based filemanager! -Rangers default hotkeys make it intuitive for users of the popular -text-editor VIM, but it is fully customizable. +The multi-column display shows a range of the filesystem, giving you +a large part of the directory tree to work with, rather than restricting +you to the current directory only. Preview the content of the selected +file or directory, copy or move files around with the VIM-like commands +dd and yy, execute predefined applications when opening a file, etc... -The program is written in Python since version 1.0.0 and uses -ncurses for the (completely text based) user interface. +Everything is fully customizable and written in Python (2.6 and 3.1 +compatible) using curses for the user interface. About ----- -* Author: hut -* Email: hut@lavabit.com -* Git repo: http://repo.or.cz/w/ranger.git +* Author: Roman Zimbelmann +* Email: romanz@lavabit.com +* Git repo: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ranger.git * Version: 1.0.3 @@ -42,23 +45,23 @@ Features Dependencies ------------ -* A Unix-like OS (Linux, BSD, Mac OS, ...) +* An Unix-like Operating System * Python 2.6 or 3.1 -* Python curses module +* Python curses module (often but not always included with Python) Bugs and Feature Requests ------------------------- -Report bugs and feature requests on the bug tracker of -the ranger repository on GitHub: - http://github.com/hut/ranger/issues +Report bugs and feature requests on savannah: + https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=ranger -Alternatively you can send an email to hut@lavabit.com. +Alternatively you can send an email to romanz@lavabit.com. Please include as much relevant information as possible. Using ranger with the --debug option will abort the program and -print tracebacks in certain cases. +print tracebacks rather than a red message in the statusbar. +If this applies to you, please include such a traceback in your report. Getting Started -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0 From cfcfd885dc15547d68340da024b571c8eddccc7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hut Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:58:22 +0100 Subject: README: changed introduction --- README | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 809ce905..f560321c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,17 +6,19 @@ Ranger A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region to protect the area or enforce the law. -Need a fast way of navigating in your shell? Hate ugly graphical -environments? Try this console-based filemanager! +This is the filemanager Chuck Norris, the Texas Ranger, would use +if he would bother with a unix-like operating system. (He doesn't trust +computers though and does the calculations himself.) -The multi-column display shows a range of the filesystem, giving you -a large part of the directory tree to work with, rather than restricting -you to the current directory only. Preview the content of the selected -file or directory, copy or move files around with the VIM-like commands -dd and yy, execute predefined applications when opening a file, etc... +After all, as a professional ranger, he needs a broad overview of his +territory, and the multi-column display of ranger provides just that, +rather than restricting you to the current directory only. +You can preview the content of the selected file or directory, copy or move +files around with the VIM-like commands dd and yy, execute predefined +applications when opening a file, etc... Everything is fully customizable and written in Python (2.6 and 3.1 -compatible) using curses for the user interface. +compatible) using curses for the text-based user interface. About -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0 From ad3c9818d57da3c4847189fdc9ed9666668ffad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hut Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:26 +0100 Subject: README: slightly changed introduction --- README | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index f560321c..d133e568 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Ranger A keeper, guardian, or soldier who ranges over a region to protect the area or enforce the law. -This is the filemanager Chuck Norris, the Texas Ranger, would use -if he would bother with a unix-like operating system. (He doesn't trust -computers though and does the calculations himself.) +This is the filemanager Chuck Norris the Texas Ranger would use +if he had a computer with an unix-like operating system. (He doesn't +trust computers though and prefers to do the calculations himself.) After all, as a professional ranger, he needs a broad overview of his territory, and the multi-column display of ranger provides just that, -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0 From 7582555b50f058b316c04ce8ab977bed36da1585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hut Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:19:56 +0100 Subject: more documentation --- INSTALL | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- README | 13 ++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index ee9e6285..d14d3891 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,14 +1,20 @@ Installing ========== -YOU DON'T NEED TO INSTALL ANYTHING. +You don't need to install anything. You can run ranger by simply starting the executable file ranger.py in the top directory of this package. +Use the --clean option and it will leave no trace whatsoever on your system. -If you insist on conventionally install it, for security reasons for -example, follow these instructions: +If you insist on conventionally install it, use the package manager +of your operating system. If there is no package or it is out of date, +you can also follow these instructions: + + +Step by step +============ (This is all done automagically if you type `sudo make install', though you might want to read the Makefile first) @@ -37,3 +43,13 @@ though you might want to read the Makefile first) (Unfortunately this feature is shell dependent. It has been successfully tested with BASH and ZSH only.) + + +Uninstalling +============ + +Use your package manager to uninstall ranger. If you manually installed +it, revert the steps described above. + +Ranger can also create a configuration directory at ~/.ranger which +you might want to remove as well. diff --git a/README b/README index d133e568..de532379 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -69,10 +69,17 @@ If this applies to you, please include such a traceback in your report. Getting Started --------------- -At first, it's a good idea to create a symlink in your bin dir: - sudo ln -s /path/to/ranger.py /usr/bin/ranger +If you just want to check out ranger without installing it, type -Now type in ranger to start it. + ./ranger.py --clean + +in the top directory of ranger. By using the --clean switch, it will +leave no trace on your system whatsoever. + +To properly install it, follow the instructions in the INSTALL file, +then type: + + ranger You should see 4 columns. The third is the directory where you are at the moment. To the left, there are the directories above the current -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0 From bd088c49e649ab4a548f8528e065ff472baec89d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hut Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:19:30 +0100 Subject: README: typo --- README | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index de532379..24760f36 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Ranger to protect the area or enforce the law. This is the filemanager Chuck Norris the Texas Ranger would use -if he had a computer with an unix-like operating system. (He doesn't +if he had a computer with a unix-like operating system. (He doesn't trust computers though and prefers to do the calculations himself.) After all, as a professional ranger, he needs a broad overview of his @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Features Dependencies ------------ -* An Unix-like Operating System +* A Unix-like Operating System * Python 2.6 or 3.1 * Python curses module (often but not always included with Python) -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0 From 2144cf26b899ce42b5aa5547aff63be5825e62be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hut Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:21:58 +0100 Subject: incremented verison number --- Makefile | 2 +- README | 4 ++-- doc/pydoc/ranger.html | 4 ++-- ranger/__init__.py | 2 +- 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 83ba7ca0..96be5b71 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ NAME = ranger -VERSION = 1.0.3 +VERSION = 1.0.4 PYTHON ?= python DOCDIR ?= doc/pydoc PREFIX ?= /usr/local diff --git a/README b/README index 24760f36..b97b5ed7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Ranger v.1.0.3 +Ranger v.1.0.4 ============== Ranger @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ About * Author: Roman Zimbelmann * Email: romanz@lavabit.com * Git repo: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ranger.git -* Version: 1.0.3 +* Version: 1.0.4 Features diff --git a/doc/pydoc/ranger.html b/doc/pydoc/ranger.html index 8a51d877..cba764cb 100644 --- a/doc/pydoc/ranger.html +++ b/doc/pydoc/ranger.html @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@  
ranger (version 1.0.4)
 
- 
ranger (version 1.0.3)		index
/home/hut/ranger/ranger/__init__.py

Ranger - file browser for the unix terminal

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Has the same arguments as print() in python3. __email__ = 'romanz@lavabit.com'
__license__ = 'GPL3'
__maintainer__ = 'Roman Zimbelmann'
-__version__ = '1.0.3'
+__version__ = '1.0.4'
arg = {'cd_after_exit': False, 'debug': False, 'flags'...n': False, 'confdir': '~/.ranger', 'targets': []}

diff --git a/ranger/__init__.py b/ranger/__init__.py index 21825ea8..e2a4983d 100644 --- a/ranger/__init__.py +++ b/ranger/__init__.py @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import sys from ranger.ext.openstruct import OpenStruct __license__ = 'GPL3' -__version__ = '1.0.3' +__version__ = '1.0.4' __credits__ = 'Roman Zimbelmann' __author__ = 'Roman Zimbelmann' __maintainer__ = 'Roman Zimbelmann' -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0