Info: Ranger plugin

[rc2dev]

First of all, thanks for this great tool.

I just switched from zoxide and missed a plugin for ranger. So I started to put one together here. Feel free to comment and suggest improvements.

Best regards.

[agkozak]

Good to hear from you! I don't use ranger, but I remember trying it a while back and being impressed. There was another person who developed a plugin for zsh-z; you can find it here (we discussed it in issue #55). I don't have time to play around with either this week, but perhaps you can tell me how the two plugins compare? Thanks!

[rc2dev]

Hi Alexandros,

Good to hear from you.

I'm aware of the plugin you mentioned, but it seems to have dropped zsh-z support. The README now only mentions rupa/z, and when trying to use it with zsh-z it throws an error (as it calls _z instead of zshz).

As for other differences, for now my plugin has these extra features:

• Automatically adds the directories you visit in ranger to zsh-z database.
• Tab completion (:z foo<TAB>).
• Some error handling in case zsh-z is not found.

Best regards. :)

[agkozak]

That sounds great. In about a week I'll be finished with a big project, and then I'll give your plugin a try.

[mhagnumdw]

I just switched from zoxide

Hi @rc2dev , can you say why? I'm exploring these plugins. Tks!

[rc2dev]

Hi @mhagnumdw,

At that time (as I remember) my reasons were mainly:

• Version. Some distros shipped older versions of Zoxide that missed important features to me. So on some of my devices I had to compile zoxide manually with cargo to be usable. On other hand, zsh-z would have the exact same version on each of my machines, with no hassle.

• Organization. The zsh-z installation could be done directly by my zsh plugin manager, together with the other plugins I used. This was neater than having to install the zoxide package on each system. It also made sense as I considered zsh-z part of my shell experience, and just deploying my dotfiles would take care of installing it.

Having said that, I've gone back to zoxide for the following reasons:

• I'm also using Bash on some machines, and zoxide works on both Zsh and Bash.
• Zoxide version is not a problem anymore (for me).
• I dropped most zsh plugins (now I mostly use a theme plugin) and I don't use a plugin manager anymore.

I hope this helps you!