Cleaned up the line display. Removed the clrtoeol, which seems to be useless (?)

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+.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.2" "April 2010" "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
 \" 3.0 License.
 
 \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org>
 \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
 \" 3.0 License.
 

-.TH "SELECTOR" 1 "July 2009" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
-

 .SH "NAME"
 
 selector \- A simple command line utility for dynamic pattern selection
 .SH "NAME"
 
 selector \- A simple command line utility for dynamic pattern selection


@@ -14,17 +14,17 @@ selector \- A simple command line utility for dynamic pattern selection
 
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 
 
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 

-\fBselector\fP is a command line utility for dynamic string
-selection. It reads the content of the specified files, and as the
-user types a list of strings separated by ";" (or a regexp), the
+\fBselector\fP is a command line utility for interactive real-time
+pattern matching. It reads the content of the specified files, and as
+the user types a list of strings separated by ";" (or a regexp), the

 display is updated in real time to show only the lines containing all
 the said strings (or matching the regexp).
 
 display is updated in real time to show only the lines containing all
 the said strings (or matching the regexp).
 

-This command was mainly designed as a way to search in the shell
-history, for which it is substantially more efficient than the
-standard readline ^R binding. With the -v option, it injects the
-selected line into the tty input buffer, hence allowing the user to
-edit the line and execute it as a standard command.
+This command was mainly designed as a way to search efficiently in the
+shell history, for which it is substantially better than the standard
+readline ^R binding. With the -v option, it injects the selected line
+into the tty input buffer, hence allowing the user to edit the line
+and execute it as a standard command.

 
 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
 
 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


@@ -59,70 +59,90 @@ case-insensitive modes.
 
 .SH "OPTIONS"
 .TP
 
 .SH "OPTIONS"
 .TP

-\fB-h\fR
-display help and exits
+\fB-h\fR, \fB--help\fR
+display help and exit

 .TP
 .TP

-\fB-m\fR
+\fB-m\fR, \fB--monochrome\fR

 force the monochrome mode
 .TP
 force the monochrome mode
 .TP

-\fB-i\fR
-invert the order of the lines
+\fB-i\fR, \fB--revert-order\fR
+revert the order of the lines

 .TP
 .TP

-\fB-b\fR
+\fB-b\fR, \fB--remove-bash-prefix\fR

 remove the numeric prefix from bash history
 .TP
 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
 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
 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
 start in regexp mode
 .TP

-\fB-a\fR
+\fB-a\fR, \fB--case-sensitive\fR

 start in case sensitive mode
 .TP
 start in case sensitive mode
 .TP

-\fB-q\fR
+\fB-n\fR, \fB--exclamation-negates\fR
+substrings starting with an exclamation point must be absent for a line
+to match
+.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
 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
 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
 .TP

-\fB-v\fR
+\fB-v\fR, \fB--inject-in-tty\fR

 inject the selected line into the tty input buffer
 .TP
 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
 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
 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
 .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
 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
 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 "EXAMPLE"
+.SH "EXAMPLES"

 
 

-To use selector to search into your bash history, you can use
+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)
+
+.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)

 
 .SH "KEYBINDING IN BASH"
 
 
 .SH "KEYBINDING IN BASH"
 


@@ -131,28 +151,31 @@ 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
 
 associate it to M-r (that is, the "Alt" and "r" key pressed together),
 just add something like
 

-bind '"\\C-[r":"\\C-a\\C-kselector -q -b -i -d -v -w -l ${HISTSIZE} <(history)\\C-m"'
+bind \(aq\(dq\\C-[r\(dq:\(dq\\C-a\\C-kselector --bash <(history)\\C-m\(dq\(aq

 
 in your
 .IR ~/.bashrc .
 
 
 in your
 .IR ~/.bashrc .
 

+This binding 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.
 
 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.
 

-The control character "C-a" puts the cursor to the mostleft location,
-"C-k" erases the current content of the readline buffer, and "C-m"
-simulates the enter key.
-

 .SH "BUGS"
 
 There are modeline display problems if the pattern is too long. This
 program does not handle multibyte characters.
 
 .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"
 
 .SH "AUTHOR"
 

-The selector command was written by Francois Fleuret
-<francois@fleuret.org> and is distributed under the terms of the GNU
-General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software
-Foundation. This is free software: you are free to change and
-redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+Written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org> and distributed
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as
+published by the Free Software Foundation. This is free software: you
+are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
+extent permitted by law.