I need help to remove entries from history
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Description
- I have read through the manual page (
man fzf) - I have the latest version of fzf
- I have searched through the existing issues
Info
- OS
- Linux
- Mac OS X
- Windows
- Etc.
- Shell
- bash
- zsh
- fish
Problem / Steps to reproduce
For some days now, I'm trying to implement a shortcut into the CTRL-R function, unfortunately to no avail. What I'm trying to achieve is the ability to remove commands from history (enabling multiselection too), within the fzf view; refreshing the fzf results once done.
This is the farthest I could go:
~/.zshrc
export FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS="--bind=\"ctrl-d:execute-silent(awk '{print \$1}' {+f1..} | while read -r linenum; do sed -i "\${linenum}d" "$HISTFILE"; done),ctrl-d:+refresh-preview\" --header \"CTRL-D to remove command from history\""
it can successfully delete the highlighted command from history file but:
- multiselection do not work (I even enabled -m in
/usr/share/fzf/key-bindings.zshbut it still remove the first selected element only) - I don't know how to implement the results refresh (I should add something like
ctrl-d:+reload(command here)?
Thank you, amazing piece of software
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Research direction
Start with the CTRL-R setup in ~/.zshrc and the binding implementation in /usr/share/fzf/key-bindings.zsh. Read the fzf binding and reload documentation, then reproduce the single- and multi-selection behavior in a Linux zsh session. Done means selected history entries are removed safely and the view refreshes with the remaining entries.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- awk, zsh
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100