From: Tomasz Pala <gotar@polanet.pl>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: zle - keep state of the buffer on accept-and-hold or hold only part
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:30:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200728103038.GA7887@polanet.pl> (raw)
Hi there,
I wonder if it is possible to retain entire state of the command line
buffer on accept-and-hold, I'm looking especially for mark location
("^@" set-mark-command) and possibly the undo history.
Or hold only a part of the command line?
My usage scenario follows - consider having (not so) many files with similar
names, like date/counter-suffixed. I need to perform some operations on them,
one by one (the commands slightly differ, assume it's not scriptable
worthy), e.g.
[1] xsltproc style.xslt file_200701.xml [alt-a: accept-and-hold]
[2] xsltproc style.xslt file_200701.xml | grep -v some_spam [accept-and-hold]
[3] xsltproc style.xslt file_200701.xml | grep -i sth_interesting | actual command [accept-and-hold]
[1] xsltproc style.xslt file_200702.xml [accept-and-hold]
[2] xsltproc style.xslt file_200702.xml | grep -v something_other [...]
Now, I got the " | grep -i sth_interesting | actual command" in xterm
PRIMARY and insert it fast with alt-shift-insert - so the [3] line is
fine. The [2] line changes depending on xsltproc output, it's written
ad-hoc, no optimization can be made.
However, most of the time I'm wasting is on going back to the point:
xsltproc style.xslt file_2007 <- here.
I can set a mark (ctrl-space) and then kill entire region, but the mark
doesn't propagate to the buffer after accept-and-hold.
Alternatively, and ideally, I would like to set a mark for a
accept-and-hold to retain only preceeding part of the buffer, e.g.:
$ xsltproc style.xslt file_2007 [ctrl-space: set-mark-command] [tab
completion to select some files] | some commands [alt-a: accept-and-hold]
$ xsltproc style.xslt file_2007
TIA, best regards,
--
Tomasz Pala <gotar@pld-linux.org>
next reply other threads:[~2020-07-28 10:31 UTC|newest]
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2020-07-28 10:30 Tomasz Pala [this message]
2020-07-28 11:48 ` Daniel Shahaf
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