selecta 0.0.17

Interactively select an entry from your bash/zsh history.

selecta - Interactively search and select entries from your bash/zsh history.
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This is a Python3 clone of François Fleuret's excellent `selector
<http://www.idiap.ch/~fleuret/software.html#selector/>`_ tool.

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Usage
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$ selecta --bash -y <(history)

Hotkeys
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CTRL+i: toggle case sensitivity

CTRL+r: toggle REGEX search

Installation
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$ sudo pip3 install selecta

Install the keyboard shortcut ALT+r:

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$ selecta_install_bash

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

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


--help output
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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

TODO
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* Add the cd feature from selector.
* Implement missing command line switches.
* Add missing keyboard shortcuts