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ranger v.1.6.1
==============
ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings.  It provides a
minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.
It ships with "rifle", a file launcher that is good at automatically finding
out which program to use for what file type.

![screenshot](doc/screenshot.png)

This file describes ranger and how to get it to run.  For instructions on the
usage, please read the man page.  See doc/HACKING for development specific
information.  For configuration, check the files in ranger/config/.  They
are usually installed to /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/ranger/config/
and can be obtained with ranger's --copy-config option.  The doc/examples/
directory contains several scripts and plugins that demonstrate how ranger can
be extended or combined with other programs.

A note to packagers:  Versions meant for packaging are listed in the changelog
on the website.


About
-----
* Authors:     Check the copyright notices in each source file
* License:     GNU General Public License Version 3
* Website:     http://ranger.nongnu.org/
* Download:    http://ranger.nongnu.org/ranger-stable.tar.gz
* Bug reports: https://github.com/hut/ranger/issues
* git clone    http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/ranger.git


Design Goals
------------
* An easily maintainable file manager in a high level language
* A quick way to switch directories and browse the file system
* Keep it small but useful, do one thing and do it well
* Console based, with smooth integration into the unix shell


Features
--------
* UTF-8 Support  (if your python copy supports it)
* Multi-column display
* Preview of the selected file/directory
* Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/...)
* Renaming multiple files at once
* VIM-like console and hotkeys
* Automatically determine file types and run them with correct programs
* Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger
* Tabs, Bookmarks, Mouse support


Dependencies
------------
* Python (tested with version 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2) with support for ncurses
  and (optionally) wide-unicode.
* A pager ("less" by default)

Optional:
* The "file" program for determining file types
* The python module "chardet", in case of encoding detection problems
* "sudo" to use the "run as root"-feature
* w3m for the "w3mimgdisplay" program to preview images

Optional, for enhanced file previews (with "scope.sh"):
* img2txt (from caca-utils) for ASCII-art image previews
* highlight for syntax highlighting of code
* atool for previews of archives
* lynx, w3m or elinks for previews of html pages
* pdftotext for pdf previews
* transmission-show for viewing bit-torrent information
* mediainfo or exiftool for viewing information about media files


Installing
----------
Use the package manager of your operating system to install ranger.
Note that ranger can be started without installing by simply running ranger.py.

To install ranger manually:
> sudo make install

This translates roughly to:
> sudo python setup.py install --optimize=1 --record=install_log.txt

This also saves a list of all installed files to install_log.txt, which you can
use to uninstall ranger.


Getting Started
---------------
After starting ranger, you can use the Arrow Keys (or hjkl) to navigate, Enter
to open a file or type Q to quit.  The third column shows a preview of the
current file.  The second is the main column and the first shows the parent
directory.

Ranger can automatically copy default configuration files to ~/.config/ranger
if you run it with the switch --copy-config. (see ranger --help for a
description of that switch.)  Also check ranger/config/ for the default
configuration.