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Interactively select an entry from your bash/zsh history.

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selecta - Interactively select an entry from your bash/zsh history.

This is a Python3 clone of François Fleuret’s excellent selector tool.

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Usage

$ selecta --bash -y <(history)

Hotkeys

CTRL+i: toggle case sensitivity

CTRL+r: toggle REGEX search

Installation

$ sudo pip3 install selecta

Install the keyboard shortcut ALT+r:

$ selecta_install_bash

This will append the following line to your ~/.bashrc:

bind '"\C-[r":"\C-a\C-kselecta --bash -y <(history)\C-m"'

–help output

usage: selecta [-h] [-i] [-b] [-z] [-e] [-a] [-d] [-y] [--bash] [--zsh]
               [infile]

positional arguments:
  infile                the file which lines you want to select eg. <(history)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i, --revert-order    revert the order of the lines
  -b, --remove-bash-prefix
                        remove the numeric prefix from bash history
  -z, --remove-zsh-prefix
                        remove the time prefix from zsh history
  -e, --regexp          start in regexp mode
  -a, --case-sensitive  start in case-sensitive mode
  -d, --remove-duplicates
                        remove duplicated lines
  -y, --show-hits       highlight the part of each line which match the
                        substrings or regexp
  --bash                standard for bash history search, same as -b -i -d
  --zsh                 standard for zsh history search, same as -b -i -d

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