fzf-marks

This plugin can be used to create, delete, and navigate marks in bash and zsh. It depends on Junegunn Choi's fuzzy-finder fzf.

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Installation

Zsh

If you use zsh, I recommend installing with a plugin manager. In the case of zgen, for example, simply add the following line to your plugin list:

zgen load urbainvaes/fzf-marks

Fish

If you use fish, then you can use fisher:

fisher install urbainvaes/fzf-marks

Bash

If you use bash, or if you use zsh without a plugin manager, source the file fzf-marks.plugin.bash or fzf-marks.plugin.zsh from your shell startup file to enable the plugin.

Bash installation example:

# Clone the git repository in the current directory
git clone https://github.com/urbainvaes/fzf-marks.git

# Add a line to ~/.bashrc to load the plugin whenever bash starts in interactive mode
echo "source $PWD/fzf-marks/fzf-marks.plugin.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

# Source the plugin now so we don't have to restart bash to start using it
source fzf-marks/fzf-marks.plugin.bash

Enabling completion:

In bash, completion should be available automatically. In zsh, completion needs to be enabled explicitly before sourcing the plugin. This is usually done automatically by plugin managers, but it can also be achieved manually with the following command in your .zshrc.

autoload -Uz compinit && compinit

Usage

The script exposes two functions:

• mark <mark>, to register a new mark to the current directory;
• fzm [<optional-initial-query>], to jump to or delete a mark using fzf.

Most of the keybindings in the search window are the default fzf ones. The only additions are

• ctrl-y, to jump to a match;
• ctrl-t, to toggle a match for deletion;
• ctrl-d, to delete selected matches.

By default, the plugin binds the key ctrl-g to fzm.

Customization

Config	Default	Description
FZF_MARKS_FILE	${HOME}/.fzf-marks	File containing the marks data
FZF_MARKS_COMMAND	fzf --height 40% --reverse	Command used to call fzf
FZF_MARKS_JUMP	\C-g (bash) or ^g (zsh)	Keybinding to fzm
FZF_MARKS_COLOR_LHS	39 (default)	ANSI color code of left-hand side
FZF_MARKS_COLOR_RHS	36 (cyan)	ANSI color code of right-hand side
FZF_MARKS_COLOR_COLON	33 (yellow)	ANSI color code of separator
FZF_MARKS_NO_COLORS	0	Set this to 1 to disable colors
FZF_MARKS_KEEP_ORDER	0	Set this to 1 to keep order of marks

See e.g. here for a description of ANSI color codes.

FAQ

Question: Is it possible to limit the fzf search to the mark label, i.e. to exclude the path from the search?

Yes, this is possible by passing the options -n (for the field number to use for the search) and -d (for the delimiter) to fzf. For example,

FZF_MARKS_COMMAND="fzf --height 40% --reverse -n 1 -d ' : '"

License

MIT