histui/documentation/histui.1.md

Histui 1 manual

DESCRIPTION

Histui is an interactive terminal interface for history entries. It integrates with bash. Do note that it does not replace the original history management.

SYNOPSIS

histui [ GLOBAL-OPTIONS ] VERB [ OPTIONS+ ]

--version

print version and quit

--help

print help and quit

enable

Dump a Bash script to stdout which is meant to be sourced from a bashrc.

tui

Start the interactive interface.

--execute

do not copy the selected entry to the Bash cli, but execute it upon selection. NOTE: this requires TIOCSTI support from the terminal.

--fuzzy

make the input be considered a fuzzy search. Fuzzy searching should not be noticeably slower than regular searches, but significantly, more convenient. In contrast, the default behaviour is to emulate the built in history search of Readline. NOTE: In the current implementation this

--caseless

ignore letter case in searches.

--group

group equal commands together, in effect only showing the most recent invocation.

Controls

UP

DOWN

CTRL + j

CTRL + K

scroll the entry cursor by one

PAGEUP

PAGEDOWN

CTRL + u

CTRL + d

scroll the entry cursor by half a screen

ENTER

select the entry under the cursor, making histui terminate and returning the entry

CTRL + q

like ENTER, but not affected by --execute

DEFAULT

edit the query line