Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?

[Joshua Landau]

On 22 April 2013 10:46, Miodrag Milic <address@hidden> wrote:

no phpBB please, at least v2 which doesn't have per thread search so you can't find anything on longer threads.

If that's the only reason, http://forums.ltheory.com/index.php is phpBB and has per-thread search.

 

I would use some StackOverflow alternative, there are several around.

i3 window manager uses Askbot for this:

https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/

The top question as of now is "What is recommended file manager for i3wm?" and do I need to tell you what the top answer for that is?

 

Here is one that is open source and done in Python:

http://www.osqa.net/

i3's looks really, really nice but it seems it's not free ;). The thing I'm not sure of with this is that it seems restricted to the FAQ half of what a forum can do.

 

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Roman Z. <address@hidden> wrote:

The FAQ is located at [1] and it's regularly updated when I receive a
lot of similar questions.

We have a wiki too, even though it's just one page on archlinux wiki [2].
It's pretty much up to date with ranger 1.6.0 and contains a bunch of
good tips.

There was a full-blown wiki on ourproject.org (a moinmoin wiki, no
mediawiki; perhaps that's why nobody used it?) but I removed the link
from ranger's website due to inactivity and in hope that people go to
the more active archlinux wiki page instead.

This is new to me.

 

[1] http://ranger.nongnu.org/documentation.html

This is new to me too.

 

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ranger

This is not. I've been aware of it and it's nice but it's far from covering the whole of this monstrosity: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93025.

I think, given that, a major point will just be making sure everyone knows what's where. A prominent link on the forum thread, and update on your first post and a link in the Arch Wiki could help.

 

> Actually...
> What Ranger needs is a package manager. Something alike to Sublime Text's.

That sounds scary :)

But do-able, no?

If you think about it, half of it's just a bit of networking. Once you've sorted the hosting, you'll just replace or augment the default commands.py with a program that trawls a directory and imports files (and, on request, classes from said files). You don't need the fancy load-on-the-fly either, but I think you might already support that ;).

Simples.