Changelog

This log documents changes between stable versions.

2019-12-31: version 1.9.3

• Added Comic cbz/cbr previews
• Added DjVu previews
• Added Font previews
• Added Wayland support to rifle
• Added imv to rifle
• Added paste_ext command with new name collision behavior
• Added a size_in_bytes setting
• Added a new %any_path macro to simplify use of bookmarks in commands
• Added a new image previewing method using ueberzug
• Added archive previews
• Added filters for uniqueness and duplicates by hash to filter_stack
• Added generic openers to rifle, xdg-open for example
• Added line modes with human readable size information
• Added loading of plugins from local configuration directory
• Added previews for 3d models using openscad
• Added previews of MS Office documents
• Added scrolling in preview
• Added trash functionality to ranger, as alternative to deleting files
• Added zathura to rifle
• Changed c/p/tunmap to unc/p/tmap respectively, fixing them in the process
• Changed argument order for tag_toggle
• Fixed chmod behavior with 000 quantifier
• Fixed a crash involving Ctrl+space
• Fixed behavior of statusbar when resizing terminal window
• Fixed busyloop when ranger's STDIN was closed
• Fixed drawing of borders in st
• Fixed handling of macros for chain
• Fixed unicode decoding errors for previews
• Improved VCS integration by truncating long commit messages
• Improved bulkrename behavior when moving files to a non-existing directory
• Improved bulkrename's handling of files with utf-16 surrogates in the name
• Improved behavior of rename_append for directories
• Improved configurability of syntax highlighting previews
• Improved coverage of unofficial MIME types, mostly audio formats
• Improved documentation of multipane viewmode
• Improved documentation of optional dependencies
• Improved documentation on copymap
• Improved documentation on tab_shift
• Improved documentation on w3m_offset
• Improved example shell scripts
• Improved extensibility of image previewing methods using a registry
• Improved fuzzy tab completion
• Improved guessing of file encoding
• Improved handling of configuration and cache directories when using --clean
• Improved handling of invalid mtimes (Relevant for fuse mounts)
• Improved logging of file deletion
• Improved testing and CI setup
• Improved updating of tmux/screen window names
• Improved updating of window titles
• Improved validation of bookmarks
• Improved w3m preview method for terminals that aren't quite compatible

2018-09-09: version 1.9.2

• Added a hint_collapse_threshold setting
• Added a traverse_backwards command analogous to traverse
• Added a command to shift tabs
• Added a normal mode mapping to quickly enter the console and scroll through the history C-p
• Added a section to scope.sh for image previews of archives
• Added an avfs plugin
• Added an option to the move command to enable launching the selected file instead of the marked files
• Added filtering functionality inspired by dired's filter stack, .n, .| ...
• Added image preview method for Kitty
• Added option to disable the display of free space for high latency situations
• Added section to scope.sh for pdf previews with mutool
• Added several emacs/readline-inspired keybindings, C-g for ESC, alt-f/b
• Added systemwide rc.conf and commands.py in /etc/ranger
• Added the %any_path macro to allow bookmarks to be used with commands that need a path and are unaware of bookmarks
• Added versioning logic to include extra info in unreleased versions
• Change tab saving to save all tabs, not just the active tab
• Changed draw_borders setting to enable drawing only borders or seperators
• Changed behavior of positional arguments to the ranger command, if you specify a path to a file ranger will open with that file selected
• Changed the tilde_in_titlebar setting to influence the window titlebar too
• Changed the default colorscheme to work properly in terminals that don't equate bold and bright
• Fixed StopIteration errors
• Fixed embedded null errors
• Fixed issues reported by coverity scan
• Fixed running ranger as root on Mac OS
• Fixed unicode issue for python2
• Fixed w3m preview issues with black stripes
• Improved PEP8 adherence
• Improved VCS symbols
• Improved --cmd functionality
• Improved file encoding detection by using chardet if it's available
• Rifle's flag t should now work with more terminals than xterm and urxvt
• Update colorscheme documentation

2018-02-22: version 1.9.1

• Fixed the rifle config backwards compatibility (regression in 1.9.0)
• Fixed the POSIX compatibility of Makefile
• Fixed --choosefile, --choosefiles and --choosedir so they work with the process substitution (>(...) in Bash)
• Changed the default gt binding to gp due to a conflict
• Changed the help message for --choosefile, --choosefiles and --choosedir to avoid confusion
• Changed the behavior of :reset to reload the tags too
• Added geeqie to the default rifle.conf

2018-01-25: version 1.9.0

• Fixed memory leak in w3m image preview
• Fixed Q binding, map it to quitall instead of quit!
• Fixed gR binding
• Fixed custom linemode not being applied to files
• Fixed w3m image display invocation on OpenBSD
• Fixed broken pager after changing view mode with ~
• Added reset of rifle.conf when pressing <C-R>
• Added image-based PDF previews to scope.sh (disabled by default)
• Added terminology-based image previews
• Added check for $VISUAL environment variable
• Added setting iterm2_font_height and iterm2_font_width
• Renamed setting cd_tab_smart to cd_tab_fuzzy
• Changed command for mercurial integration from hg to chg

2017-11-19: version 1.9.0b6

• Fixed crash when parsing corrupted history file
• Fixed tab completion with cd -r ...
• Fixed crash when previewing files encoded in little-endian UTF-16
• Fixed flicker in previewing symlinked images
• Fixed detection of location of scope.sh
• Fixed crash when running ranger from the directory containing its package
• Fixed cursor position after moving half a page down and back up
• Fixed handling of lines that are too long for the console
• Added <F2> binding to :rename_append
• Avoid dereferencing symlinked directory when starting ranger in one
• Added support for file:// URIs as path arguments
• Added setting save_tabs_on_exit
• Added setting cd_tab_case, sets case sensitivity of :cd tab completion
• Added setting cd_tab_smart, allows fuzzy tab completion with :cd, for example, :cd /u/lo/b<TAB> expands to :cd /usr/local/bin
• Added setting global_inode_type_filter to show only directories when running ranger with the new option --show-only-dirs
• Added setting save_backtick_bookmark, e.g. for easier syncing of bookmarks
• Added setting one_indexed to start counting line numbers from 1
• Added rifle.conf entries to list/extract archives without atool
• Added :yank command for simplified definitions of yn, yd & yp
• Added :narrow command, which filters selected files
• Added setting freeze_files, bound to F key, to avoid reloading files
• Changed :shell -p ... to display stderr in pager

2017-02-19: version 1.9.0b5

• Fixed width calculation of multibyte characters in preview
• Fixed crash in iTerm2 preview with python 3.5

2017-02-10: version 1.9.0b1

• Fixed crash when using Mi on files without reading permissions
• Fixed natural sorting (11.jpg < 100.jpg)
• Fixed loss of precision in timestamps when copying
• Fixed smart case matching in :travel
• Fixed automatically disabling preview_script when running as root
• Fixed crash on sshfs disconnect
• Fixed crash on missing ~/.config/ranger/history
• Fixed crash when path not accessible during start-up
• Fixed automatic tmux title
• Fixed urxvt image previewing when running tmux
• Fixed macro expansion in aliased commands
• Fixed hidden_filter option when combined with :flat
• Fixed various other crashes
• Fixed error message that occasionally pops up when changing settings
• Introduced extensive linting to ensure code quality
• Added continuous integration. Patches now require make test to pass.
• Added handling of arguments in "$PAGER" environment variable
• Added quote parsing for :setlocal path=...
• Added ys to copy the selection to clipboard
• Added setting hostname_in_titlebar
• Added setting wrap_scroll to wrap cursor around when scrolling
• Added example plugin plugin_fasd_add.py
• Added command jump_non to jump to the first non-directory file
• Added additional arguments to the command :rename_append
• Added key binding 'zz' as an alternative to 'zf'
• Added option -c to the rifle file opener command
• Added support for $XDG_DATA_HOME
• Avoid exiting ranger while copying. Use :quit! to quit while copying.
• Improved scope.sh (better performance & readability)
• Improved logs handling by migrating to the python standard logging library (PR #725)
• Changed ranger --choosefiles to return all selected files in all paths
• Changed interpretation of commands: treat tabs as argument separators
• Changed <C-n> to open new tab in current directory rather than $HOME
• Changed :quit! to only close 1 tab. Use :quitall to close all tabs.
• Removed backward compatibility for options.py, predecessor of rc.conf
• Automatically update bookmarks+tags when renaming them via ranger

2017-01-08: version 1.8.1

• Fixed :scout break due to incompatible change in python 3.6

2016-12-24: version 1.8.0

• scope.sh is now needed for the now fully scriptable image previews
• Overhaul of version control system integration, now with threads
• Fixed ranger not finding the location of w3mimgdisplay in most cases
• Fixed many minor bugs
• Added midnight-commander like multipane view, toggleable with ~ key. It displays the current directory of all the open tabs next to each other.
• Added autodetect for 256 color support in scope.sh source code preview
• Added macro %confdir that expands to ~/.config/ranger by default
• Added possibility to toggle/cycle through options with set <option_name>!
• Added Mm/Ms key to enable the linemode showing modification time
• Added yt/dt keys to toggle whether file is in copy/cut buffer
• Added line_numbers setting showing absolute/relative line numbers
• Added Alt-Left and Alt-Right key bindings to move by words in console
• Added previews for libreoffice files with odt2txt
• Added preview_images_method=urxvt option for previewing images by changing the urxvt background (requires urxvt compiled with pixbuf support)
• Added clear_filters_on_dir_change option
• Added Travis-CI integration
• Changed zi key to toggle preview_images option
• Improved PEP8 compliance
• Improved documentation
• Improved UI by separating file path in titlebar with a space from the username/hostname for quick copy&pasting by shift+double-clicking on it.

2015-10-04: version 1.7.2

• Fixed file name arguments passed to sxiv and feh when using :flat
• Fixed removal of empty directories when using :rename
• Fixed free disk space display on Mac OS X
• Fixed examples/vim_file_chooser to work with gvim too
• Fixed some other rare crashes and bugs
• Fixed downward mouse wheel scrolling
• Fixed warning about regex splits being drawn in titlebar since python3.5
• Really fixed S key binding not working when SHELL=fish
• Improved doc/cheatsheet.svg
• Added some entries to rifle.conf
• Added key bindings pO and pP which work like po and pp but queue the operation in a first-in-first-out order.

2015-05-04: version 1.7.1

• Added doc/cheatsheet.svg
• Added examples/rc_emacs.conf, a config file adding emacs-like key bindings
• Added env keyword in rifle.conf
• Fixed :bulkrename command in python3
• Fixed S key binding not working when SHELL=fish

2015-04-13: version 1.7.0

• The default editor is now vim instead of nano
• Added automatic updates of tags when a file is renamed from within ranger
• Added preview_images_method which can be set to iterm2 to use native iTerm2 image previews
• Added :rename_append command to rename files without the file extension
• Added :linemode command to change the way the files are displayed Try this out by pressing M followed by one of the suggested keys. New linemodes can be added with ranger.api.register_linemode().
• Added :filter_inode_type command to only show directories, files or links
• Added :meta command for managing custom file metadata
• Added :flat command for displaying subdirectories
• Added solarized colorscheme
• Added generic ability to use scope.sh for image previews
• Added video previews in scope.sh
• Added option sort_unicode to sort according to unicode, not ASCII
• :mkdir can now create multiple directory levels (like mkdir -p)
• :help (key binding ?) is now interactive
• :find (key binding /) is now case insensitive by default
• ranger --copy-config=all now copies a short sample commands.py rather than the full one, so that you can update ranger without having broken commands. The full commands.py is still copied to ~/.config/ranger/commands_full.py.
• Fixed broken copying of symlinks

2013-05-24: Version 1.6.1

• Added support for version control systems, see: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/ranger-users/2013-03/msg00007.html
• Added :scout command as a unified backend to :find, :search, etc
• Added open_all_images setting to remove the need for external scripts to handle opening of all images in a directory at once.
• Now previewing with i uses the whole available width.

2013-02-22: Version 1.6.0

• Overhauled all config files. Please update them or use the --clean switch
• Added examples/ directory to source code which contains sample programs or plugins that can be used together with ranger
• Added progress bars to copying, moving and directory loading processes
• Added feature to draw images inside the console using w3mimgdisplay (you need to add set preview_images true in rc.conf)
• Added a plugin system like in the program anki, i.e. place any python file into ~/.config/ranger/plugins/ and it will be imported by ranger
• Added a separate file launcher named rifle that is configured through rifle.conf and is installed as a standalone program. Using ranger [filename] from the shell for opening files is deprecated now, please use rifle [filename] instead.
• Added uq keybinding to undo closed tabs
• Added :setlocal command to change settings for specific directories only
• Added :travel command to move more quickly to your destination
• Added 256 color support for scope.sh
• Added a real yes/no prompt for :delete command
• Added settings: confirm_on_delete, draw_progress_bar_in_status_bar, preview_images, status_bar_on_top, update_tmux_title
• Added commands: :mark_tag, :unmark_tag
• Added BSD-friendly setsid implementation
• Added as-you-type filtering for :filter command
• Replaced options.py file by :set commands in rc.conf
• Replaced apps.py file with rifle.conf
• Improved r key to interface with rifle
• Rewritten scope.sh in POSIX shell
• Changed copying/moving code to work without GNU coreutils
• Changed key to untag files from T to ut
• Changed the flag d (for detached) to f (for fork) in program launcher
• Changed appearance of keybinding-hints and bookmarks
• Changed tabs with 4 spaces in the source code (see PEP 8)
• Removed ranger.core.environment class
• Removed settings: colorscheme_overlay, draw_bookmark_borders, init_function, load_default_rc
• Fixed zombie process apocalypse
• Fixed draw_borders=true in combination with padding_right=false

2012-08-10: Version 1.5.5

• Ensure that detached programs continue to run when ranger is killed

2012-05-03: Version 1.5.4

• Added exiftool to scope.sh by default
• Fixed a crash when entering a directory with a unicode name
• Speedup in ranger.ext.get_executables

2012-03-05: Version 1.5.3

• Added --selectfile option that selects a certain file on startup
• Added --list-tagged-files option
• Added --cmd option to run commands on startup
• Added --profile option for additional debug information on exit
• Added a visual mode (activate with V, deactivate with Esc)
• Added a reversed visual mode (activate with uV)
• Added $RANGER_LEVEL environment variable which ranger sets to 1 or higher so programs can know that they were spawned from ranger
• Added run flag r for running with root privileges (needs sudo)
• Added run flag t for running in a new terminal (as specified in $TERMCMD)
• Added :relink command to change destinations of symlinks
• Added dc binding for getting the cumulative size of a directory
• Added autoupdate_cumulative_size option
• Added pht binding to Paste Hardlinked subTrees (like cp -l)
• Improved sorting speed of signals (noticeable when caching many directories)
• Improved drawing speed
• Fixed unexpected behavior when displaying nonprintable characters
• Fixed :bulkrename to work with files starting with a minus sign
• Fixed RangerChooser example in man page
• Fixed crash when opening images with sxiv/feh by running ranger <image>

2011-10-23: Version 1.5.2

• Fixed graphical bug that appears in certain cases when drawing characters at the right edge.

2011-10-23: Version 1.5.1

• Added fm.select_file(path)
• Added --choosefiles option (like --choosefile, but chooses multiple files)
• Fixed --list-unused-keys
• Fixed Zombie processes
• Fixed handling of filenames with undecodable bytes (unicode surrogates)
• Fixed crashes due to incomplete loading of directories
• Fixed tab completion of the command shell
• Fixed ot and oT keys in rc.conf
• Fixed parsing of chained commands (like in the binding om)

2011-10-11: Version 1.5.0

• Full python3.2 compatibility
• Added new configuration file rc.conf which contains a list of commands that are executed on startup - mainly used for keybindings
• Added --list-unused-keys
• Added new program handlers to apps.py
• Added pop-up window for keychains and bookmarks
• Added load_default_rc option
• Fixed all known unicode issues
• Fixed crash when $TERM is unknown to the system
• Fixed scrolling in colored preview
• Changed the default column_ratios to 1/3/4 and sorting method to natural
• Changed :rename so it doesn't overwrite existing files
• Internal actions are now accessible as commands
• Replaced unittests by doctests
• Replaced integrated help with an extended man page and dynamic lists of keybindings, commands and settings.
• Removed keys.py configuration file in favor of rc.conf
• Removed texas colorscheme
• apps.py: Now able to define programs that only run with Xorg
• commands.py: Using parse(self.line) to parse the line is unnecessary now. parse(self.line).rest(n) is now written as self.rest(n). However, parse(self.line).chunk(n) has been renamed to self.arg(n).
• commands.py: parse(self.line) + X is now self.firstpart + X
• commands.py: New special attribute resolve_macros which decides whether strings like %f should be expanded to the name of the current file, etc.
• commands.py: New special attribute escape_macros_for_shell to toggle whether or not macros should be escaped, so you can use them in other commands than :shell, for example :edit %f
• Countless small fixes and improvements

2011-10-02: Version 1.4.4

• Added keys for chmod (like +ow for chmod o+w, etc)
• Added c flag for running files
• Added various key bindings
• Added wavpack and webm types to mime.types
• Added option display_tags_in_all_columns
• Added command.cancel method which is called when pressing ESC in console
• Added sorting and cycling by ctime and atime
• Added custom tags (press "x)
• Added bittorrent preview
• Fixed blocking when using interactive scripts in scope.sh
• Fixed issues with ALT key
• Fixed pager crash when trying to read non-readable file
• Forbid piping things into ranger
• Improved hints

2011-04-05: Version 1.4.3

• Fixed mimetype checking when invoking ranger with a filename
• Fixed loss of bookmarks when disk is full
• Minor improvements

2011-03-05: Version 1.4.2

• Added --choosefile and --choosedir flag
• Added use of bookmarks in tab completion of the :cd command
• Fixed bug with detached programs and python 3.2

2011-01-04: Version 1.4.1

• Fixed crash when preview failed under some circumstances
• Fixed graphical bug when pressing i

2010-12-22: Version 1.4.0

• Added option to use any external scripts for previews (see scope.sh)
• Added key: zv to toggle the use of the external script
• Added indicator for the used filter (type zf)
• Added option padding_right to remove whitespace if theres no preview
• Added command :search_inc for incremental search
• Added commands :save_copy_buffer and :load_copy_buffer to share the copied files between ranger instances
• Added mimeopen as a fallback if no useful application can be found
• Added natural sort, sorts 1foo before 10foo. (type on)
• Added keys: yp, yd and yb to copy path, dirname or basename to seleciton
• Let open_with use the selection, not just one file
• Run files with right mouse click
• Implemented copying via coreutils rather than internal python code
• Improved handling of unicode
• Some restructuration of the source code

2010-12-13: Version 1.2.3

• Enable binding to alt-keys
• Fixed memory leak in garbage collecting of old, unused directory objects
• Fixed python3 incompatibilities
• Fixed problems with identifying changes of files
• Fixed lazy lookup of some FSObject attributes

2010-10-10: Version 1.2.2

• Prevent currently used directories from being garbage collected
• Disable mouse buttons when console is open
• Fixed :cd command: Without arguments, cd's into $HOME
• Fixed bug which prevented pydoc to work on some config files
• Fixed some bugs in snow and jungle colorschemes
• Several other clean-ups and fixes

2010-09-16: Version 1.2.1

• Fixed yy/pp bug when yanking multiple directories

2010-09-13: Version 1.2.0

• !!! Changed the default configuration directory to ~/.config/ranger !!!
• Removed Console Modes, each old mode is now a simple command
• Disabled file previews by default if ranger is used by root
• Allow to jump to specific help sections by typing two numbers, e.g. 13?
• Added keys: da, dr, ya, yr for adding and removing files from copy buffer
• Added keys: gl and gL to resolve links, see 11?
• Added key: pL to create a relative symlink
• Added % and % macros for the console, see 33?
• Fixed ansi codes for colors in the pager
• Use the file ~/.mime.types for mime type detection
• Several clean-ups and fixes

2010-07-17: Version 1.1.2

• Fix crash when using scrollwheel to scroll down in some cases
• The command ranger dir1 dir2 ... opens multiple directories in tabs
• Removed pydoc html documentation by default, re-create it with make doc
• Minor fixes

2010-06-18: Version 1.1.1

• New install script, setup.py
• New flag for running programs: w (waits for enter press)
• Minor fixes

2010-06-09: Version 1.1.0

• Added a man page
• Tab support
• Improved directory loading performance
• Commands are definable in ~/.ranger/commands.py
• Case insensitive sorting (type zs)
• Better UTF support
• Possibility to turn off previews (zp and zP)
• Changing options with :set (e.g. :set column_ratios=1,2,3,4)
• Ask for confirmation when using :delete
• New invocation flag: --fail-unless-cd
• New hotkeys, commands, options.
• New syntax for ~/.ranger/keys.py
• Several user contributions
• And tons of general improvements