diff --git a/init.example.el b/init.example.el
index ad85bd8ba..d740412a6 100644
--- a/init.example.el
+++ b/init.example.el
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 
        :emacs
        dired             ; making dired pretty [functional]
+       ;;ranger          ; bringing the goodness of ranger to dired
        ediff             ; comparing files in Emacs
        electric          ; smarter, keyword-based electric-indent
        ;;eshell            ; a consistent, cross-platform shell (WIP)
diff --git a/modules/config/default/+bindings.el b/modules/config/default/+bindings.el
index 573874dcf..73522ac04 100644
--- a/modules/config/default/+bindings.el
+++ b/modules/config/default/+bindings.el
@@ -698,6 +698,10 @@
         :desc "REPL"                  :n  "r" #'+eval/open-repl
                                       :v  "r" #'+eval:repl
         :desc "Dired"                 :n  "-" #'dired-jump
+        (:when (featurep! :feature ranger)
+          :desc "Deer"   :nm "j" #'deer
+          :desc "Ranger" :nm "J" #'ranger)
+
         (:when (featurep! :ui neotree)
           :desc "Project sidebar"              :n  "p" #'+neotree/open
           :desc "Find file in project sidebar" :n  "P" #'+neotree/find-this-file)
diff --git a/modules/emacs/ranger/autoload.el b/modules/emacs/ranger/autoload.el
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c0fa0a6f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/emacs/ranger/autoload.el
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+;;; private/ranger/autoload.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun +my/dired-setup ()
+  (setq dired-omit-verbose nil)
+  (make-local-variable 'dired-hide-details-hide-symlink-targets)
+  (setq dired-hide-details-hide-symlink-targets nil)
+
+  ;; hide details by default
+  (dired-hide-details-mode t)
+  ;; omit the .. in dired
+  (dired-omit-mode t))
diff --git a/modules/emacs/ranger/config.el b/modules/emacs/ranger/config.el
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d40952ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/emacs/ranger/config.el
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+;;; private/ranger/config.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
+
+(def-package! dired
+  :hook (dired-mode . +my/dired-setup)
+  :config
+  ;; Use GNU ls as `gls' from `coreutils' if available.  Add `(setq
+  ;; dired-use-ls-dired nil)' to your config to suppress the Dired warning when
+  ;; not using GNU ls.  We must look for `gls' after `exec-path-from-shell' was
+  ;; initialized to make sure that `gls' is in `exec-path'
+  (when IS-MAC
+    (let ((gls (executable-find "gls")))
+      (if gls
+          (setq insert-directory-program gls)
+        (message "Please install `gls` using `brew instal coreutils`..."))))
+  (setq dired-listing-switches "-aBhl --group-directories-first"))
+
+
+(def-package! ranger
+  :init
+  (setq ranger-override-dired t)
+  ;; set up image-dired to allow picture resize
+  (setq image-dired-dir (concat doom-cache-dir "image-dir"))
+  (unless (file-directory-p image-dired-dir)
+    (make-directory image-dired-dir))
+  :config
+  (setq ranger-omit-regexp "^\.DS_Store$"
+        ranger-excluded-extensions '("mkv" "iso" "mp4")
+        ranger-deer-show-details nil
+        ranger-max-preview-size 10))
+
+
+(def-package! all-the-icons-dired
+  :defer t
+  :hook (dired-mode . all-the-icons-dired-mode))
+
+
+(def-package! font-lock+)
+
+
+(def-package! dired-x)
diff --git a/modules/emacs/ranger/packages.el b/modules/emacs/ranger/packages.el
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..369233b18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/emacs/ranger/packages.el
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+;; -*- no-byte-compile: t; -*-
+;;; private/ranger/packages.el
+
+(package! ranger)
+(package! all-the-icons-dired)
+(package! font-lock+ :recipe (:fetcher github :repo "emacsmirror/font-lock-plus"))