Q: Run a command with all marked files from all folders

[LukasKnuth]

Runtime Environment

• Operating system and version: macOS Sonoma 14.4.1
• Terminal emulator and version: alacritty 0.13.2
• Python version: Python 3.12.3
• Ranger version/commit: ranger 1.9.3
• Locale: None.UTF-8

Steps to reproduce

1. Select files using space in different folders
2. Run :shell hx %p to open the Helix editor with all selected files

Current Behavior

The %p macro only expands to full paths of to the marked files in the current directory

Expected Behavior

The %p macro expands to full paths of all marked files from any directory

Context

I'm using ranger to walk through a large Git repository, previewing files to find the ones I need to work on. I mark said files and then simply want to open all of them for editing in an editor.

Possible Solutions

Perhaps I'm missing a different macro, but https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Official-User-Guide#macros makes it seem like there are only those that work in the current directory.

[LukasKnuth]

Looking at the code at

ranger/ranger/core/actions.py

Lines 310 to 312 in 38bb890

	macros['p'] = lambda: [os.path.join(self.fm.thisdir.path,
	fl.relative_path) for fl in
	self.fm.thistab.get_selection()]

it seems like the %p macro should do exactly what I want.

It just seems that self.fm.thistab.get_selection() only returns the files in the currently opened directory. Is the current directory also implicitly the current tab?