Alexander Jeurissen

Hi @ad-si Thanks for submitting this feature request. That looks pretty rad, I think we might be limited to the ranger colorschemes, but I'll see if this can be achieved...

initial results don't seem very promising.. escape codes don't get interpreted by ranger but get printed directly.

I'll do some more investigation this weekend to see if I can get it to work.

@CallumHoward not yet. Looks like Ranger completely ignores color escape codes. Also the font color of the linemode seems to be defined in the theme meaning ranger likely does not...

Seems one needs to remove the "stale issue" label explicitly. For now I reopened the issue

Thanks for the bump @SuperSandro2000 From my investigations it seems that this is not really feasible at this point in time. Ranger does not support multi-colored output for its linemodes....

The only way to get this working is if Ranger starts supporting ANSI escape codes / colors in line modes. Currently changing the color of individual items is limited to...

Hmm it seems that the code above does something, but only the GNU shell utilities respect it.  The first output is when explicitly...

@arcticicestudio Not only that but it seems that the highlighting of dynamic links is also not working as expected in BSD `ls` `BSD ls`: `Core utils (GNU) ls`:

@arcticicestudio I think you're right from what I've found it's not possible to have such detailed contextual highlighting using lscolors. For now I've aliased `ls=\gls --color=always -G` Different question how...