How to “follow” symlink in Ranger to open containing directory of target

ranger

In Ranger, I often have symlink and I want to go to the containing directory of the file that is linked to. How to do this with Ranger?

It's a bit hard to find but ranger can do this with the gL keymap.

After you type g you'll see a list of commands:

key          command
 L           cd -r %f

rc.conf

In ranger, assuming you have a custom rc.conf in ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf, type:

:eval fm.source(fm.confpath('rc.conf'))

I tested this by changing set draw_borders true/false in ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf.

In ranger, assuming you have a custom rifle.conf in ~/.config/ranger/rifle.conf, type:

:eval fm.rifle.reload_config()

Note that this was tested with the latest Git commits.

$ sudo apt-get install highlight

then reopen ranger.