X-Git-Url: https://www.fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=selector.1;h=e8eb8ff481395e9529ad56e50c0f795a349d3e03;hb=ebcd09bd919fdd7a9130df7cea66b40b5b471863;hp=75c53843469262975db007bbd0e4780cf1939226;hpb=fc48bb7a3111b59e63ff2c6a6447b64202e7ab80;p=selector.git diff --git a/selector.1 b/selector.1 index 75c5384..e8eb8ff 100644 --- a/selector.1 +++ b/selector.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.7" "July 2012" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" +.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.7" "February 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ with many possible choices. For the latter, the -x option allows to 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. +cannot be used as one of the input files. .SH "USING SELECTOR IN BASH" @@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ The selector command comes with a shell script for bash. If you add in your \fB~/.bashrc\fR, it will remap M-r to the smart history search, 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" Keys corresponding to ASCII codes between " " and "~" add a character @@ -98,7 +102,7 @@ start in case-sensitive mode 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 +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 @@ -153,9 +157,7 @@ To use selector to search into your bash history .P .nf -.B - -selector -q --bash <(history) +.B selector -q --bash <(history) .fi To show a list of directories and insert a cd command to the selected @@ -163,18 +165,14 @@ one .P .nf -.B - -selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0 }\(aq) +.B selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0 }\(aq) .fi To select a line in a long text and write the line number in /tmp/nb .P .nf -.B - -selector -o /tmp/nb -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq) +.B selector -o /tmp/nb -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq) .SH "BUGS"