Re: [Ranger-users] ranger 1.6.0 on the horizon

[Michishige Kaito]

That look good to me. Can we get to try it before 1.6 is out?

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"Roman Z." <address@hidden> wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 08:12:39PM +0100, Miodrag Milic wrote:
>> Nice example with binds and full RE. Clearly +1 for RE implementation.
>
>Let's discuss then what kind of options will be available for the new
>command.  I'll name it :scout for now.  I suggest these:
>
>1. -a for automatic opening, as soon as there is only 1 match left
>2. -e for automatic opening when the user presses enter
>3. -k for keeping the console open until the user presses ESC
>4. -s for letter skipping ("hl" matches "hello")
>5. -g for globbing ("h*o" matches "hello")
>6. -r for regular expressions ("h.*\w$" matches "hello")
>7. -f for filtering the list of files to show only the matching ones
>8. -t for the "as-you-type" feature
>9. -m for marking all matching files
>
>If none of -s, -g or -r are used, it matches when the given string is a
>substring of the matching file name -- just like the :find command works
>now.  Obviously -s, -g and -r can't be used together.
>
>We could implement lots of commands with these flags:
>:find        -> :scout -aet
>:search      -> :scout -r
>:search_inc  -> :scout -rt
>:travel      -> :scout -aeksft
>:narrow      -> :scout -esft
>
>And all users would be happy because they can combine the flags however
>they want.
>
>Roman
>
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