 Hey everybody welcome back to the channel today We're gonna take a look at using ranger in Vem now if you don't know what ranger is ranger is a Terminal based file manager now. I know what you're thinking Matt You've done like three videos in the last three days on file managers. I'm a little bit obsessed I can't help it file managers is the thing I've been nerding on for the last week or so It's just the way things have gone in my life. No, I don't know what's going on I've been looking for a way to Interact with files in Vem now. There are many ways to do this. There's nerd tree. There's via them There's many different little plugins that you can use my preferred method of interacting with files in the terminal is ranger so I was looking for a plugin that would allow me to go through and Put ranger in Vem basically so that I when I want to switch between files or whatever I Can go through and just use ranger without having to exit Vem and you know come back or whatever so What we're going to do today is go through and try to install plugin that allows you to do this so let's go ahead and jump over so the plugin that I'm going to be using is Called ranger explorer Vem now. I'm going to you be using them plug in order to do this and Let's see if I can get the microphone out of my way just a tad. That's a little bit better You probably won't hear the obnoxious breathing noises so bad as if I move it just a little bit farther away, so let's open up a Terminal here and let's go here and I'll zoom in a little bit so that you can see it and My Version of them is Neo Vem, so this should work both ways A prerequisite. Well, obviously, we'll be having some kind of Plug-in manager for Vem or Neo Vem. I use Vem plug and we can get into my my nvm config files by going to .config and end them and Then we'll CD into plugins and just do an LS here and then them into plugins Dot them. All right, so What we need to do is go back to that browser page and copy and paste this here Okay, and we'll go back to five and it doesn't really matter where I don't have any of these things Organized in any certain way, so I'm just going to just copy a paste that in there and we'll save this and quit We'll re-enter it and do plug install And that we should go through and then plug And install the plugin if If we're if we're lucky So it looks like it's done. I think I was just sitting there waiting for nothing to happen, which is good so we'll do just Quit that and that means we should be able to go through and look and see actually how to use this thing here, so Installation and usage we have to put the Font commands are available on range your launch pad from so if we do control-o edit on existing tab Let's go through. I don't know if that's gonna end up actually working out. We're gonna go find out Control-o. No, I did nothing out. That took me to my Two different buffer fascinating Okay, so I'm guessing that I'm gonna actually have to put those key bindings in oops All right, so we're gonna actually put this in There instead these are done these are not the right ones obviously Okay Put out of that and then you'll back to here. I'm gonna need these things here as well into the general settings one CD data General them General them so I should be space and I think my Actually, I think my leader is gonna being slash. I can't remember. All right, so let's go up here and So if we do slash and yeah, there we go. Look we have ranger Bada bing bada boom. It just took you know ages to do So this actually just shows all of the things that are in this specific Directory and we can go up to a different directory and I think if I do control H actually get my hidden file So we can go back to the config file And we say we just wanted to open up my DWM config. So we're just going here to suck less Here and then DWM and config.h and just open them and that's ranger So for me my my leader is slash and I just did that right So should be slash and yeah slash see maybe Slash and there we go. Yeah slash and yep. Good. And we'll just Go back to Slash and yep, and we're using ranger. That's how that's apparently as easy as it is I'm not sure if you actually have to go through and put those things that I put in the general and the key bindings if those aren't just default but I Did anyways it doesn't hurt anything to have those in there even if they are default key bindings And that's basically using ranger in Invim and it's just a simple plug-in and you can go through them navigate to your heart's content And that's just the way it is so real simple real quick and It's just something that I've needed to do for quite a while and maybe you'll have learned how to do it yourself So I prefer bit them plug, but you could do that with Vundal or one of the other ones just as easily so Should be fairly simple. Thank you for watching If you enjoy this video give it a thumbs up if you didn't give it a thumbs down There's plenty of ways you can support the channel. 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