X-Git-Url: https://www.fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=selector.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=selector.1;h=5ea32e91a7533c5432c8aa75b7be6f499241be37;hp=7dfedd87ab500c510b051d785485c65c1e0ff0df;hb=db0d8f2855537dee1b1a39600d8acecd98f603ed;hpb=af8b50ee46fba4784c1003070424e1b74de66470 diff --git a/selector.1 b/selector.1 index 7dfedd8..5ea32e9 100644 --- a/selector.1 +++ b/selector.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "SELECTOR" 1 "April 2010" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" +.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.6" "February 2012" "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 @@ -82,14 +91,29 @@ with the same visible part if you use the -x option) start in regexp mode .TP \fB-a\fR, \fB--case-sensitive\fR -start in case sensitive mode +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-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, \fB--rest-are-files\fR +\fB--\fR state that all following arguments are filenames .TP +\fB--bash\fR +standard setting for bash history search, same as + +-b -i -d -v -w -l ${HISTSIZE} +.TP \fB-t \fI\fR, \fB--title \fI<title>\fR add a title in the modeline .TP @@ -117,15 +141,12 @@ selection from the line 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 -.TP -\fB-f \fI<filename>\fR, \fB--input-file \fI<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) @@ -138,26 +159,6 @@ 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