Directory specific options

[psnszsn]

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but i could not find any reference to it.

Is there a way to set directory specific options?
Examples:

• sort the downloads directory by date
• show hidden files in specific directories

In ranger this is accomplished with setlocal path=/path options.

[gokcehan]

@psnszsn I think this is a duplicate of #117. We currently do not have a way to set local settings for directories.

[JurisMajors]

Are there any plans for this?

I don't know how this would get parsed within a config, however, is it any more complicated than just having a mapping from path to command (string to string) and then executing this command whenever you cd in a directory that is in this mapping as a key?

[gokcehan]

@JurisMajors I haven't given this much thought but I'm guessing this is not trivial to implement. We need to add a new keyword such as setlocal to the parser, keep these special configurations within a map, and use these whenever we use a value of an option. We probably need to touch almost everywhere in the codebase to implement this. I'm not saying it is impossible but it is not quite easy either.

[reg-iii]

Any chance we'll ever see this? It would be nice to display the contents in my home folder in alphabetical order and my downloads in reverse chronological order...

[gokcehan]

@reg-iii The ratio of requests/contributors is still pretty high. I would say your best bet is to work on this yourself, and optionally send a PR when you feel confident about it.

If anyone is interested in working on this, it seems that everything mentioned here is about sorting (including hidden, dirfirst, reverse). We already have a representation of this in the code as sortType. Every dir has a sortType and we check this value against gOpts.sortType whenever we load the directory. There aren't many of these checks.

I guess the more tricky part is to add a new type to the parser and the evaluator. There should be a new keyword in the lexer (i.e. setlocal), a new rule in the parser (i.e. SetLocalExpr = 'setlocal' <dir> <opt> <val> ';'), and the corresponding func (e *setLocalExpr) eval(app *app, args []string) implementation in the evaluator.