Re: [Ranger-users] How to make preview wrap long lines?

[Jostein Berntsen]

On 22.10.12,02:33, Roman Z. wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:59:49PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
> > On 21.10.12,22:25, Roman Z. wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:46:30PM -0700, epeyys wrote:
> > > > I have struggled for a day and a night trying to make preview (pager) 
> > > > wrap long lines.  From "Dependencies" section under 
> > > > http://nongnu.org/ranger, I got an impression that Ranger uses "less" 
> > > > for pager - "A pager (<a>less</a> by default)", but having changed the 
> > > > following lines inside $HOME/.config/ranger/apps.py to add an "N" after 
> > > > "R", which will make "less" display line number, has made no difference.
> > > > def app_pager(self, c):
> > > >   return 'less', '-R', c
> > > > 
> > > > By looking around codes under /usr/share/pyshared/ranger/, I guess 
> > > > Ranger default uses an embedded pager.  So my question is how I can 
> > > > turn on wrap inside this default pager.
> > > > 
> > > > There are two screenshots on Ranger's main websites, one shows 
> > > > wrap-enabled, one doesn't.
> > > > No wrap: http://nongnu.org/ranger/screenshots/screenshot0.png
> > > > Has wrap: 
> > > > http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/ranger/screenshot2.png
> > > 
> > > This screenshot has no word wrapping.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I am using Ubuntu 12.04, and Ranger version is "ranger 1.5.2 (stable)". 
> > > >  Thank everyone for this great product.
> > > 
> > > You can wrap words by using scope.sh ("man ranger" and search for 
> > > "scope").
> > > A command like
> > > 
> > >     fmt -s -w "$width"
> > > 
> > > does word wrapping, so you can simply pipe the text through it.  If you
> > > got the program "highlight", for example, then just replace the line
> > > 
> > >   highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln
> > > 
> > > with
> > > 
> > >   highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" | head -n $maxln | fmt -s -w 
> > > "$width"
> > > 
> > 
> > I entered this in scope.sh, but it does not seem to work.
> > 
> > 
> > Jostein
> > 
> 
> Try
> 
>     text/* | */xml)
>         highlight --out-format=ansi "$path" -WJ "$width" | head -n $maxln
>         success && exit 4
>         cat "$path" | fmt -s -w "$width"
>         exit 0;;
> 

I tried this now, but it still does not wrap the lines. 

Jostein