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143 lines
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# zsh-history-substring-search
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This is a clean-room implementation of the [Fish shell][1]'s history search
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feature, where you can type in any part of any command from history and then
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press chosen keys, such as the UP and DOWN arrows, to cycle through matches.
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[1]: http://fishshell.com
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[2]: http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2009/msg00818.html
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[3]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/
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[4]: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/pull/215
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[5]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
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[6]: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
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Requirements
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* [ZSH](http://zsh.sourceforge.net) 4.3 or newer
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Usage
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1. Load this script into your interactive ZSH session:
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% source zsh-history-substring-search.zsh
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If you want to use [zsh-syntax-highlighting][6] along with this script,
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then make sure that you load it *before* you load this script:
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% source zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
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% source zsh-history-substring-search.zsh
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2. Bind keyboard shortcuts to this script's functions.
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Users typically bind their UP and DOWN arrow keys to this script, thus:
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* Run `cat -v` in your favorite terminal emulator to observe key codes.
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* Press the UP arrow key and observe what is printed in your terminal.
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* Press the DOWN arrow key and observe what is printed in your terminal.
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* Press the Control and C keys simultaneously to terminate the `cat -v`.
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* Use your observations from the previous steps to create key bindings.
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For example, if you observed `^[[A` for UP and `^[[B` for DOWN, then:
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bindkey '^[[A' history-substring-search-up
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bindkey '^[[B' history-substring-search-down
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You might also want to bind the Control-P/N keys for use in EMACS mode:
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bindkey -M emacs '^P' history-substring-search-up
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bindkey -M emacs '^N' history-substring-search-down
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You might also want to bind the `k` and `j` keys for use in VI mode:
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bindkey -M vicmd 'k' history-substring-search-up
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bindkey -M vicmd 'j' history-substring-search-down
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3. Type any part of any previous command and then:
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* Press the `history-substring-search-up` key, which was configured in
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step 2 above, to select the nearest command that (1) contains your query
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and (2) is also older than the current command in your command history.
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* Press the `history-substring-search-down` key, which was configured in
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step 2 above, to select the nearest command that (1) contains your query
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and (2) is also newer than the current command in your command history.
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* Press `^U` the Control and U keys simultaneously to abort the search.
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4. If a matching command spans more than one line of text, press the LEFT
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arrow key to move the cursor away from the end of the command, and then:
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* Press the `history-substring-search-up` key, which was configured in
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step 2 above, to move the cursor to the line above the cursored line.
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When the cursor reaches the first line of the command, pressing the
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`history-substring-search-up` key again will cause this script to
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perform another search.
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* Press the `history-substring-search-down` key, which was configured in
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step 2 above, to move the cursor to the line below the cursored line.
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When the cursor reaches the last line of the command, pressing the
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`history-substring-search-down` key, which was configured in step 2
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above, again will cause this script to perform another search.
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Configuration
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This script defines the following global variables. You may override their
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default values only after having loaded this script into your ZSH session.
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* `HISTORY_SUBSTRING_SEARCH_HIGHLIGHT_FOUND` is a global variable that defines
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how the query should be highlighted inside a matching command. Its default
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value causes this script to highlight using bold, white text on a magenta
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background. See the "Character Highlighting" section in the zshzle(1) man
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page to learn about the kinds of values you may assign to this variable.
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* `HISTORY_SUBSTRING_SEARCH_HIGHLIGHT_NOT_FOUND` is a global variable that
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defines how the query should be highlighted when no commands in the
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history match it. Its default value causes this script to highlight using
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bold, white text on a red background. See the "Character Highlighting"
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section in the zshzle(1) man page to learn about the kinds of values you
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may assign to this variable.
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* `HISTORY_SUBSTRING_SEARCH_GLOBBING_FLAGS` is a global variable that defines
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how the command history will be searched for your query. Its default value
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causes this script to perform a case-insensitive search. See the "Globbing
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Flags" section in the zshexpn(1) man page to learn about the kinds of
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values you may assign to this variable.
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* `HISTORY_SUBSTRING_SEARCH_ENSURE_UNIQUE` is a global variable that defines
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whether all search results returned are _unique_. If set to a non-empty
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value, then only unique search results are presented. This behaviour is off
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by default. An alternative way to ensure that search results are unique is
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to use `setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS`. If this configuration variable is off
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and `setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS` is unset, then `setopt HIST_FIND_NO_DUPS`
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is still respected and it makes this script skip duplicate _adjacent_ search
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results as you cycle through them, but this does not guarantee that search
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results are unique: if your search results were "Dog", "Dog", "HotDog",
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"Dog", then cycling them gives "Dog", "HotDog", "Dog". Notice that the "Dog"
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search result appeared twice as you cycled through them. If you wish to
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receive globally unique search results only once, then use this
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configuration variable, or use `setopt HIST_IGNORE_ALL_DUPS`.
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History
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* September 2009: [Peter Stephenson][2] originally wrote this script and it
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published to the zsh-users mailing list.
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* January 2011: Guido van Steen (@guidovansteen) revised this script and
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released it under the 3-clause BSD license as part of [fizsh][3], the
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Friendly Interactive ZSHell.
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* January 2011: Suraj N. Kurapati (@sunaku) extracted this script from
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[fizsh][3] 1.0.1, refactored it heavily, and finally repackaged it as an
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[oh-my-zsh plugin][4] and as an independently loadable [ZSH script][5].
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* July 2011: Guido van Steen, Suraj N. Kurapati, and Sorin Ionescu
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(@sorin-ionescu) [further developed it][4] with Vincent Guerci (@vguerci).
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* March 2016: Geza Lore (@gezalore) greatly refactored it in pull request #55.
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