Re: [Ranger-users] Thorough tutorial

[John Z.]

Hi,
    yesterday I went and thoroughly read through the manual again - I
found the command 'mark_tag' which makes a selection out of all
tags, so I assume this could be used to combine tags with ranger
commands.

    I don't feel like I'm missing anything specific, rather,  I'd love
to read/see how other people use it. Maybe having tips&tricks
section in the wiki.
    Sometimes, its faster/clearer to use 'find' with xargs to achieve a
certain thing, and I'm 99% sure that the reason for this is that I'm
not using Ranger to the fullest :-)
    If there's a way to use %t with xargs, grep, or sed - that'd be a
great start, tagging files around my projects and subsequently using
these tag groups would be really helpful.

    One additional quick question - where does ranger store info about which
files are tagged?


> Well, I have learnt (and still doing) it from a cheatsheet:
> http://ranger.nongnu.org/cheatsheet.png
> 
> I usually look at the bindings in the cheatsheet and if I find one, that I
> am not sure what it is for, I just try to press it in Ranger. Also, press ?
> in ranger and then c for commands. That's probably all you need.
> Unfortunately, not all commands are documented - this should be done.
> 
> OK, wiki may be improved.
> 
> * You're right. Tagging files needs some improvements (AFAIK, you can't use
> tagged files directly in ranger commands, but list of files is available in
> global variable %t, so you can do something like: `:shell cp %t directory`
> or even `:delete %t`. I don't know how to add tagged files to the buffer).
> 
> * Is there anything more you're missing? I can't think of anything.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> knezi
> 
> 
> 
> On 30.8.2016 23:14, Italo Cunha wrote:
> > +1
> > 
> > Would be interested in an in-depth tutorial too.
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:38 PM, John Z. <address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi everyone,
> >         I am looking for a thorough tutorial for Ranger. I'm using it for
> >     about 2 months now and I feel like I'm barely scraping the surface of
> >     what's possible.
> >         I've read the man page and keybindings, and read few
> >     webpages I managed to find (one explained very useful bulk rename) but
> >     for example, while I know how to tag files - I still don't know how to
> >     then use tagged files, for example select them all, or deselect them
> >     inside a selection, move them, copy them, etc...
> >         This is, I suppose, just the tip of the iceberg.
> > 
> >         Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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