How do I create a new directory from within ranger?

Question

I have recently moved from dired to ranger. While using it on a regular work day, I noticed there isn't any command for creating a new directory.

Is there a workaround or am I missing something?

Answer 1

I am assuming this is talking about the https://github.com/ralesi/ranger.el package available from Melpa. There are several things you can do

1. Use "!" to run a command. This is made slightly tricky as ranger seems to want to pass the filename you are on to the command, so something like mkdir wibble ; : could be used on unix systems.

2. Switch to dired mode using control-p, then use + to call dired-create-directory, and then control-p to switch back to ranger

3. Add

   (require 'ranger)
   (define-key ranger-normal-mode-map (kbd "+") #'dired-create-directory)
   

to your startup file.

Whilst ranger is quite pretty, I dislike the way it takes away standard ways to discover things. In particular binding control-h to toggle hidden (dot) files is bad.

Answer 2

To create a new directory you can use either of the two commands (Ranger v1.7.2-1 on Arch Linux):

F7

:mkdir

You can also assign your custom hotkey by editing file

~/.config/ranger/rc.conf

Answer 3

The quickest way is dired-create-directory (bound by default to + in dired). It will prompt you for the name of the directory to create.