select the correct parent directory after pressing "h" or "l"

[adrianstaniec]

when going to child directory "l" the cursor/highlight does not remain at the previously visited directory (in the collumun to the left)

and

when going to the parent directory "h" the cursor is not located at the directory which I came from

[punassuming]

@adrsta, can you give me the steps you go through to get this behavior? Does it occur with every transition?

[adrianstaniec]

ok, it's pretty straight forward, let's say:

0. I start in ~
1. I use j and k to navigate to .emacs.d and press l
2. I am in .emacs.d so that's good, but the "cursor" in the colum to the left (parent column) does not highlight .emacs.d but Documents directory for some reason (weird)
3. I press h to go back to ~, and it happens, but my cursor is on Documents and not on .emacs.d

if you check original ranger, it behaves differently

[punassuming]

@adrsta, I understand the problem, and I agree this isn't the intended behaviour. The reason I asked is that I do not see this behavior. When I navigate up to a parent directory or go into a directory in ranger, the parent window has correct folder highlighted.

The mention of Documents makes me think this might be something to do with symlink referencing. Is emacs.d symlinked to home? Does this behaviour occur outside of the emacs.d directory? For instance do you see this when navigating within the emacs.d/elpa/ directories?

[adrianstaniec]

mhm, in that case I guess it's not going to be so easy to fix strange, because, I see this behaviour all over the place

I am not sure about the symlinks, I think the Documents is just a regular directory not a link

and it also changes, I mean now (after closed and opened ranger few times) it comes back to another directory in my ~

it could have something to do with:

• the previously visited directories or
• recent files or
• openened buffers I'm guessing

[punassuming]

@adrsta, can you let me know your emacs build and OS? I normally work in windows, but cab try it on my linux box.

[adrianstaniec]

I am on: Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 Jessie GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x84_64-pc-linux-gnu) 2015-03-07 on trouble, modified by Debian Spacemacs v.0.105.9

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 at 22:52 Rich Alesi notifications@github.com wrote:

@adrsta https://github.com/adrsta, can you let me know your emacs build and OS? I normally work in windows, but cab try it on my linux box.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/ralesi/ranger.el/issues/97#issuecomment-182597497.

[duerrp]

I have the same issue as OP, but only when I use ranger in terminal emacs. Under X it is working as advertised...

[punassuming]

@duerrp, I will try this out on my rpi and see what the issue is.

[duerrp]

@ralesi Thanks!

[adrianstaniec]

Thank you! :+1: