-.TH "SELECTOR" 1 "July 2009" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.7" "July 2012" "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
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
+
+.RS
+.EX
+source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd
+.EE
+.RE
+
+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
.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
-start in case sensitive mode
+\fB-a\fR, \fB--case-sensitive\fR
+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-q\fR
+\fB-y\fR, \fB--show-hits\fR
+highlight the part(s) of each line which match 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
+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<title>\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-r \fI<pattern>\fR, \fB--pattern \fI<pattern>\fR
+set a pattern
.TP
-\fB-v\fR
+\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--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
-selection from the line to return
+\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. If the provided separator is "\\n",
+the lines to show to the user alternate with the lines 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)
+.RS
+.EX
+selector -q --bash <(history)
+.EE
+.RE
To show a list of directories and insert a cd command to the selected
-one (using @ as a separator)
-
-.B selector -v -x @ <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{print $0\(dq@cd \(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)
-
-.B selector -v -x ^A <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq^A\(dqNR }\(aq)
+one
-.SH "KEYBINDING IN BASH"
+.RS
+.EX
+selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0}\(aq)
+.EE
+.RE
-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
+To select a line in a long text and returns the line number
-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.
+.RS
+.EX
+selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq)
+.EE
+.RE
.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
projects / selector.git / blobdiff