-.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.5" "November 2011" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.7" "February 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
\" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org>
\" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
Selector is also a handy tool to test regexps, or to display menus
with many possible choices. For the latter, the -x option allows to
-specify a label delimiter: the part of each line before that character
-will appear during the selection, but only the part after that
-character will be returned.
+show different strings than the ones returned.
Note that because this is an interactive command, the standard input
can not be used as one of the input files.
The selector command comes with a shell script for bash. If you add
+.P
+.nf
.B source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd
+.fi
in your \fB~/.bashrc\fR, it will remap M-r to the smart history search,
-and redefine cd so that M-c provides a smart cd history.
+and redefine \fBcd\fR so that M-c provides a smart cd history.
+
+This script relies on readline being configured with the default
+emacs-style key bindings. You may have to hack a bit if you want to
+use it with the vi-style mode.
.SH "KEY BINDINGS"
start in regexp mode
.TP
\fB-a\fR, \fB--case-sensitive\fR
-start in case sensitive mode
+start in case-sensitive mode
+.TP
+\fB-j\fR, \fB--show-long-lines\fR
+print a long-line indicator at the end of truncated lines
+.TP
+\fB-y\fR, \fB--show-hits\fR
+highlight the part(s) of each line which match(es) the substrings or regexp
.TP
\fB-u\fR, \fB--upper-case-makes-case-sensitive\fR
using an upper case in the matching string makes the matching
\fB-t \fI<title>\fR, \fB--title \fI<title>\fR
add a title in the modeline
.TP
+\fB-r \fI<pattern>\fR, \fB--pattern \fI<pattern>\fR
+set a pattern
+.TP
\fB-c \fI<colors>\fR, \fB--colors \fI<colors>\fR
select the modeline and highlight color numbers with a color list of
the form
.TP
\fB-x \fI<separator>\fR, \fB--label-separator \fI<separator>\fR
specify the character to separate what to show to the user during the
-selection from the line to return
+selection from the line to return. If the provided separator is "\\n",
+the lines to show to the user alternate with the lines to return
.TP
\fB-l \fI<number>\fR, \fB--number-of-lines \fI<number>\fR
specify the maximum number of lines to take into account
To use selector to search into your bash history
+.P
+.nf
.B selector -q --bash <(history)
+.fi
To show a list of directories and insert a cd command to the selected
-one (using @ as a separator)
+one
-.B selector -v -x @ <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{print $0\(dq@cd \(dq$0}\(aq)
+.P
+.nf
+.B selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0 }\(aq)
-To select a line in a long text and returns the line number (this
-command uses ^A as a separator, hence there will be problems if the
-file contains ^A)
+.fi
+To select a line in a long text and write the line number in /tmp/nb
-.B selector -v -x ^A <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq^A\(dqNR }\(aq)
+.P
+.nf
+.B selector -o /tmp/nb -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq)
.SH "BUGS"