X-Git-Url: https://www.fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=selector.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=selector.1;h=a0a88b4f19f4c0c85a79c679ecf3492203800542;hp=840360e0195d2f630579758e8b26ed00f3f5d6e6;hb=HEAD;hpb=e173725a9f5a007fc53ea442a57b41b91eb0b956 diff --git a/selector.1 b/selector.1 index 840360e..a0a88b4 100644 --- a/selector.1 +++ b/selector.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.7" "July 2012" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" +.TH "SELECTOR" "1.1.8" "February 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike @@ -28,25 +28,26 @@ 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 -specify a label delimiter: the part of each line before that character -will appear during the selection, but only the part after that -character will be returned. +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" The selector command comes with a shell script for bash. If you add -.RS -.EX -source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd -.EE -.RE +.P +.nf +.B source bash-selector.sh --hist --cd +.fi 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. +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" @@ -101,7 +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 @@ -118,6 +119,9 @@ standard setting for bash history search, same as -b -i -d -v -w -l ${HISTSIZE} .TP +\fB--delete-regexp \fI\fR +deletes in every line the portion matching the regexp +.TP \fB-t \fI\fR, \fB--title \fI<title>\fR add a title in the modeline .TP @@ -154,28 +158,24 @@ specify the maximum number of lines to take into account To use selector to search into your bash history -.RS -.EX -selector -q --bash <(history) -.EE -.RE +.P +.nf +.B selector -q --bash <(history) +.fi To show a list of directories and insert a cd command to the selected one -.RS -.EX -selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0}\(aq) -.EE -.RE +.P +.nf +.B selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0 }\(aq) -To select a line in a long text and returns the line number +.fi +To select a line in a long text and write the line number in /tmp/nb -.RS -.EX -selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq) -.EE -.RE +.P +.nf +.B selector -o /tmp/nb -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq) .SH "BUGS"