How to open .org files with emacs in ranger?-CodePudding

So in my rifle.conf I have

ext org, has emacs,    terminal,  flag f = emacs "$@"

However it opens the file with the GUI version of emacs? How do I open it with 'emacs -nw filename'?

CodePudding user response：

I tried what Tom had said but I found that there were too many steps to open my org file. I wanted to be able to just press enter on an orgfile within ranger and have it open emacs -nw file.org, within the tmux pane running ranger.

The following solved my dilemma:

!mime ^text, label editor, ext org = emacs -nw -- "$@"

CodePudding user response：

Edit: Interesting dig - after a look at OPs solution above: It turns out ranger does indeed open a terminal program 'on top of itself', so to speak. The culprit in OPs first attempt is the flag f, in fact the minimal

ext org = emacs -nw "$@"

works like a charm.

Old attempts:

As far as I read the docs, you cannot open a file with a program running in the same terminal as ranger itself is running in (I may be wrong, though).

Following the documentation I exported TERMCMD, since I'm using tmux with TERM=screen-256color, ranger cannot infer the terminal to use from that:

# just a test, I don't use xterm
export TERMCMD=xterm

And simply added the t flag and -nw to the command in rifle.conf:

 ❯ cat ~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf
ext org, has emacs,    terminal,  flag tf = emacs -nw "$@"

Hitting r in ranger

0 | emacs -nw "$@"
:open_with 0

This opens a new xterm, starting a new emacs editing the file in question. You can simply press the Return key while on the file in question with this setup; using r would show all available options.

If you are living in the terminal and don't want to start another graphical terminal, I suggest using something like tmux - you can use tmux commands to open files, in this case like so

ext org, has emacs,    terminal,  flag f = tmux splitw -h emacs -nw "$@"

splitting the current pane (with ranger running), launching a new pane to the right of the current one and starting emacs there. The pane will be closed when you quit emacs. I'd probably start an emacsserver and use emacsclient -nw in this scenario.