X-Git-Url: https://fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=selector.1;h=44bd32a54e92ef4406640b4afa4b654c4cedaf5b;hb=a5951faf47e3adcecd2c4dbb621616cca7d4f02b;hp=66635583683683f51e45250eb676c4d516e240aa;hpb=70e0b59610745e00fe015f96a5b6155f97110b30;p=selector.git diff --git a/selector.1 b/selector.1 index 6663558..44bd32a 100644 --- a/selector.1 +++ b/selector.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "SELECTOR" 1 "July 2009" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" +.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.5" "November 2011" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike @@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ character will be returned. Note that because this is an interactive command, the standard input can not be used as one of the input files. +.SH "USING SELECTOR IN BASH" + +The selector command comes with a shell script for bash. If you add + +.B source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd + +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. + .SH "KEY BINDINGS" Keys corresponding to ASCII codes between " " and "~" add a character @@ -59,70 +68,79 @@ case-insensitive modes. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP -\fB-h\fR +\fB-h\fR, \fB--help\fR display help and exit .TP -\fB-m\fR +\fB-m\fR, \fB--monochrome\fR force the monochrome mode .TP -\fB-i\fR +\fB-i\fR, \fB--revert-order\fR revert the order of the lines .TP -\fB-b\fR +\fB-b\fR, \fB--remove-bash-prefix\fR remove the numeric prefix from bash history .TP -\fB-z\fR +\fB-z\fR, \fB--remove-zsh-prefix\fR remove the time prefix from zsh history .TP -\fB-d\fR +\fB-d\fR, \fB--remove-duplicates\fR remove duplicated lines (note that you can have two different lines with the same visible part if you use the -x option) .TP -\fB-e\fR +\fB-e\fR, \fB--regexp\fR start in regexp mode .TP -\fB-a\fR +\fB-a\fR, \fB--case-sensitive\fR start in case sensitive mode .TP -\fB-q\fR +\fB-u\fR, \fB--upper-case-makes-case-sensitive\fR +using an upper case in the matching string makes the matching +case-sensitive +.TP +\fB-q\fR, \fB--no-beep\fR make a flash instead of a beep when there is an edition error .TP \fB--\fR state that all following arguments are filenames .TP -\fB-t \fI\fR +\fB--bash\fR +standard setting for bash history search, same as + +-b -i -d -v -w -l ${HISTSIZE} +.TP +\fB-t \fI<title>\fR, \fB--title \fI<title>\fR add a title in the modeline .TP -\fB-c \fI<fg_modeline> <bg_modeline> <fg_highlight> <bg_highlight>\fR -select the modeline and highlight color numbers +\fB-c \fI<colors>\fR, \fB--colors \fI<colors>\fR +select the modeline and highlight color numbers with a color list of +the form + +\fI<fg_modeline>,<bg_modeline>,<fg_highlight>,<bg_highlight>\fR .TP -\fB-v\fR +\fB-v\fR, \fB--inject-in-tty\fR inject the selected line into the tty input buffer .TP -\fB-w\fR +\fB-w\fR, \fB--add-control-qs\fR add ^Q between characters during tty injection to quote control characters .TP -\fB-o \fI<output_filename>\fR +\fB-o \fI<filename>\fR, \fB--output-file \fI<filename>\fR write the selected line into the specified file .TP -\fB-s \fI<pattern_separator>\fR -specify the symbol to separate the substrings in the search pattern +\fB-s \fI<separator>\fR, \fB--pattern-separator \fI<separator>\fR +specify the character to separate the substrings in the search pattern .TP -\fB-x \fI<label_separator>\fR -specify the symbol to separate what to show to the user during the +\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 .TP -\fB-l \fI<max_number_of_lines>\fR +\fB-l \fI<number>\fR, \fB--number-of-lines \fI<number>\fR specify the maximum number of lines to take into account -.TP -\fB-f \fI<input_filename>\fR -specify a file to search into (option kept for compatibility reasons) .SH "EXAMPLES" To use selector to search into your bash history -.B selector -q -b -i -d -v -w -l ${HISTSIZE} <(history) +.B selector -q --bash <(history) To show a list of directories and insert a cd command to the selected one (using @ as a separator) @@ -135,31 +153,14 @@ file contains ^A) .B selector -v -x ^A <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq^A\(dqNR }\(aq) -.SH "KEYBINDING IN BASH" - -You can associate selector to a single key in bash by using the -command 'bind' in your bash initialization file. For instance, to -associate it to M-r (that is, the "Alt" and "r" key pressed together), -just add something like - -bind \(aq\(dq\\C-[r\(dq:\(dq\\C-a\\C-kselector -q -b -i -d -v -w -l ${HISTSIZE} <(history)\\C-m\(dq\(aq - -in your -.IR ~/.bashrc . - -This bindings uses the control character ^A to put the cursor to the -mostleft location and ^K to erase the current content of the readline -buffer, and it simulates the enter key with ^M. - -Note that depending on the configuration of your system, the sequence -associated to the M-r key, which is here "C-[r", may differ. To figure -it out, simply press C-q followed by M-r in the console. - .SH "BUGS" There are modeline display problems if the pattern is too long. This program does not handle multibyte characters. +The \fB-v\fR option does not work on FreeBSD 8.0 since the TIOCSTI +ioctl request is broken. + .SH "AUTHOR" Written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org> and distributed