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Comment by 😺 gemalaya

Re: "XDG, default apps, mess..."

In: s/Linux

@stack Have you ever tried the "ranger" terminal file manager ? Quoting the git README:

"ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. It ships with rifle, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type."

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2023-08-29 · 5 months ago

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🚀 stack [OP] · Aug 29 at 19:57:

I do like ranger, thanks @gemalya - I forgot about it... But LOL: I had to dig a bit to find that it uses the shell's $EDITOR variable!

Hell's bells!

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XDG, default apps, mess... — I am having way too much trouble doing something very simple. I have two machines with XUbuntu but dwm'ed. I want to be able to look at files. I started with PCManFM (from inertia), and using xdg-mime configured text/plain to open vim.desktop (5Kb of yuck!). On one box it works, on the other it opens vim in a 80x24 space, after which status text gets printed at the bottom, arrows scroll past the editable 80x24 region, and the whole thing is a mess, although in a...

💬 stack · 3 comments · 2023-08-29 · 5 months ago