I am using Ranger as a file explorer, and by the way it's great…
I have an issue because Ranger can display a preview of the file currently
selected. Which is quite useful but becomes problematic for large files.
Indeed, for large files, it takes a lot of time and ressources to do create a
preview.
My question is : is there a way to set the maximal size for which Ranger won't
try to display a preview ?
Best Answer
I found the solution, at least for text files, the problem was in the highlighting... Ranger was trying to highlight long files... the workaround I found is shown in the following excerpt of
~/.config/ranger/scope.sh
The idea, it to select only the first lines of the textfile and then call
highligh
only on that portion.