Documentation

Links

• The official ranger wiki
• ranger(1) manpage
• Source code documentation generated with pydoc
• README, HACKING, doc/*
• Arch Linux Wiki
• Running "make options" will inform you about how to generate documentation yourself

Cheat sheet

The cheat sheet for version 1.9.3: (png, svg)

Features

• UTF-8 Support
• Multi-column display
• Preview of the selected file/directory
• Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/...)
• VI-like console and hotkeys
• Renaming multiple files at once
• Automatically determine file types and run them with correct programs
• Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger
• Tabs, Bookmarks, Mouse support
• True Color Image previews [How to enable]
• Video thumbnails [How to enable]

Dependencies

ranger requires mainly Python (v2.7+ or 3.1+) and a pager like `less` to run, both of which are usually installed by default on most systems.

To supercharge ranger, you can add various optional dependencies for archive extraction, image previews and so on, see the README.md