From: Mitchell Burdette <mitchell.burdette@gmail.com>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Automatically run ls on blank line for faster navigation
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:40:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJt4KPYMGvhpSPEyeDZidnE0mTHSJyPFp=X8xSKAA3L7FJu3zA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3TFBoBc67-gZBWaA34gQ4osr=uxAZVFC14wQ+cug7LCqA@mail.gmail.com>
I like that method more, it's like a hook of sorts. For me I had to
add the line:
> zle -N auto-ls
before the line:
> zle -N accept-line auto-ls
otherwise it would complain that there's no widget 'auto-ls'.
I'm wondering what other cool tricks this could be used for :)
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 March 2012 22:55, Mitchell Burdette <mitchell.burdette@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I rigged up a function that makes navigation super fast in zsh. If you
>> hit enter on a blank line, it runs ls automatically.
>>
>> Just add the following to your .zshrc:
>> auto-ls () {
>> if [[ $#BUFFER -eq 0 ]]; then
>> echo ""
>> ls
>> zle redisplay
>> else
>> zle accept-line
>> fi
>> }
>> zle -N auto-ls
>> bindkey '^M' auto-ls
>>
>> To get the ^M correct in vim, hit <Ctrl+V><Enter>. You could really
>> make this run whatever you want, on any key you want, but I like this
>> shortcut in particular (It goes great with autocd!).
>
> A (slightly) more generic way to do it would be
>
> auto-ls () {
> if [[ $#BUFFER -eq 0 ]]; then
> echo ""
> ls
> zle redisplay
> else
> zle .$WIDGET
> fi
> }
> zle -N accept-line auto-ls
> zle -N other-widget auto-ls
>
> This uses the same function to wrap any widget, ie you might want it
> on accept-and-hold and accept-line-and-down-history as well, or
> something. Maybe not. Note that the . in .$WIDGET is important, or it
> will call the wrapper recursively, .foo always calls the builtin
> widget ignoring any custom widgets by the same name. (And $WIDGET is
> obviously the name of the widget that caused the function to be
> called).
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 20:55 Mitchell Burdette
2012-03-29 21:07 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-29 21:40 ` Mitchell Burdette [this message]
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