X-Git-Url: https://fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=selector.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=selector.1;h=840360e0195d2f630579758e8b26ed00f3f5d6e6;hp=4d9f3d137ba89565da74930c17c9b2c0b82c0af2;hb=e173725a9f5a007fc53ea442a57b41b91eb0b956;hpb=1c1b9424c49bab51042fbd3730afa38bcd8b4f07 diff --git a/selector.1 b/selector.1 index 4d9f3d1..840360e 100644 --- a/selector.1 +++ b/selector.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.5" "November 2011" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" +.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.7" "July 2012" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike @@ -39,7 +39,11 @@ can not be used as one of the input files. The selector command comes with a shell script for bash. If you add -.B source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd +.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. @@ -94,7 +98,7 @@ start in regexp mode start in case-sensitive mode .TP \fB-j\fR, \fB--show-long-lines\fR -print three dots at the end of truncated lines +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 the substrings or regexp @@ -117,6 +121,9 @@ standard setting for bash history search, same as \fB-t \fI\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 @@ -137,7 +144,8 @@ specify the character to separate the substrings in the search pattern .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 @@ -146,18 +154,28 @@ specify the maximum number of lines to take into account To use selector to search into your bash history -.B selector -q --bash <(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) +one -.B selector -v -x @ <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{print $0\(dq@cd \(dq$0}\(aq) +.RS +.EX +selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0}\(aq) +.EE +.RE -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) +To select a line in a long text and returns the line number -.B selector -v -x ^A <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq^A\(dqNR }\(aq) +.RS +.EX +selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq) +.EE +.RE .SH "BUGS"