Re: [Ranger-users] %D variable possible?

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Roman Z. <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:50:00AM +0530, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Roman Z. <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:58:42AM +0530, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>> >> Hi!
>> >>
>> >> %d currently expands to the path of the current directory.  If you
>> >> have 2 tabs open, could %D perhaps expand to the path of the current
>> >> dir on the other tab?  (or the most recently visited tab, if there are
>> >> more than two)?
>> >>
>> >> Here's why I ask.  (Again, this is a frequent operation for me).
>> >>
>> >> If I want to run "diff -qr" on 2 directories, I now do this:
>> >>
>> >>         ranger dir1 dir2        # start ranger with 2 tabs
>> >>         <tab>                   # go to dir2 tab
>> >>         h                       # go to dir2's parent
>> >>         yy                      # yank full path of dir2
>> >>         <tab>                   # go to dir1 tab
>> >>         #diff -qr %d %c
>> >>
>> >> In mc, I used to just type in: diff -qr %d %D
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to make something like that work.  I'm not saying it has to
>> >> be exactly the same, only that it would be nice if the steps could be
>> >> shortened.
>> >>
>> >> While you're about it, you may want to think of the equivalents for
>> >> %f, %s, etc for other tabs.  Like maybe %<N><letter> is %<letter> in
>> >> tab <N> perhaps?  Would be real cool!
>> >>
>> >> thanks,
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Sitaram
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yo Sitaram.
>> >
>> > Are you really typing that whole line each time?
>> > Maybe it's time for a shortcut :)
>>
>> well I just used diff -qr as an example.  In practice I have a few
>> other commands that do directory comparisions and merges.  I sometimes
>> use kdiff3, or unison, or some home-grown scripts that deal much
>> better with renames/moves, etc... :-)
>> >
>> > Anyway, well, it sounds reasonable to add those %<N><letter> commands.
>> >
>> > There's just a little problem:
>> > As you know, the tabs feature is very simple.  Its a dictionary of
>> > strings, {1: "/home/hut", 2: "/usr/bin", ..} which saves the paths of your
>> > tabs, and a pointer to the current tab.  The "current file" and
>> > "selected files" are saved in the directory, not the tab.
>> >
>> > This means: Two tabs with the same path have the same %s and %f.
>> > You gonna have to live with that. =P
>>
>> Aaha!  When I have a tab on foo and one on foo/bar, and I copy foo/baz
>> by yy/dd and switch to tab 2 and pp it into foo/bar, when I come back
>> to foo the cursor has moved to bar instead of staying where it was.  I
>> suspect this is caused by the same thing?
>>
>> > About %D....  It's ambiguous.  I personally would give it the meaning
>> > "the path of the tab to the right, wrapping around when hitting the end."
>>
>> perfect... (actually anything at all that gives me the path of any
>> other tab is fine for me; I only ever need two so even if I have
>> multiple tabs open I can manage)
>>
>> > I've been playing around with the idea in my head to add an optional
>> > extra column at the right which shows the content of this %D.  One could
>> > then turn off previews and set column_ratios to (1, 0) to replicate the
>> > look of mc.
>>
>> please make it optional... mc's look is right boring compared to ranger!
>>
>> > %D = "The path of the most recently visited tab" might me more convenient
>> > when you got many tabs and you work on tabs 3 and 8, making %D useless.
>> > Then again, you can use %8d or %3d.
>>
>> Thanks for looking into it!  Whatever way you can do it is fine by me.
>
> So, I'm getting around to implement it after all.

I know the feeling!  I maintain something called gitolite, and I've
often said the very same or similar words :-)

> Here's the commit, including documentation at the bottom:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ranger.git/commit/?id=f54adde9099f08a8e15d8003a6a2cdf275593e4d

looks cool!  I'll try to download it a bit later... I think the
implementation (and the simplicity) blows mc away completely now.
Since kdiff3 can actually take 3 folders, I can now compare 3 of them
MUAHAHAH!  (ok that's rare, and I'm being a little silly...)

Thanks again!