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


From: Jostein Berntsen
Subject: Re: [Ranger-users] How to make preview wrap long lines?
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:59:49 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

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



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