Tony I hadn't yet worked with ranger enough to form a conclusion. Would muchly appreciate your configuration file. Hadn't yet found the trick for making it single pane. Also hadn't run into that lynx mean trick, but that could ruin a day. Thanks tom On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 01:46:17AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > I can send you my Ranger preferences if that helps. It's definitely > packaged in Debian and Ubuntu. Once it's set to single column, it works > great. You can use the keypad 8 to read the file currently highlighted. > Singole column mode was specifically designed for the blind if I read the > docs correctly. I would be very interested in knowing what problems you're > having and why you don't like it. I don't like using Lynx the cat because > it's really not designed for that purpose. A web browser should be for > browsing the web, not managing files. The more serious issue is it tries to > download files which should not be downloaded. Specifically, if I have a > file called batsupport.com, it assumes it's a binary file even though it's > actually plain text, but I have no way to view it or pipe it to less. > Trying to open it prompts me to download it. Since it's already on the > local system, I don't want to download it, I want to open it. That's just > my opinion and if Lynx the cat works for you, that's great too. The nice > thing about Linux is there are lots of choices. > > On 6/27/2015 7:41 PM, Tom Fowle wrote: > > Tony, Jude and all; > > Lynx startfile is set and it does as advertised, helps a bit. > > > > Will try ranger again, had tried it from source and didn't work, havn't got > > used to always checking progs to assure they are or aren't packaged for > > Debian, will try ranger again. > > > > Yes did search as suggested. most of them are "VI" like and double pane. > > > > Keeping on keeping on, > > thanks all > > Tom > > > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 08:17:21AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> Tom will need to set his startpage variable in lynx.cfg for that to > >> work correctly. > >> > >> On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Hart Larry wrote: > >> > >>> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 01:14:32 > >>> From: Hart Larry <chime@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > >>> <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> Subject: Re: command line file managers (simple) > >>> > >>> Well, Tom, when I tried "mc" I seem to remember it tracked 1line > >>> off from where I was, also items weren't numbered. So, you can > >>> type > >>> lynx . > >>> you will first see directories, followed by files, which you can > >>> mash enter on, however, if they are media, you would ajust your > >>> mime type options. Hope that works better for you > >>> Hart > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Speakup mailing list > >>> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Have a good day, > Tony Baechler > tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
