Awesome
fzf-tab
Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!
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- fzf-tab
- Install
- Usage
- Difference from other plugins
- Compatibility with other plugins
- Related projects
Install
[!IMPORTANT]
- make sure fzf is installed
- fzf-tab needs to be loaded after
compinit
, but before plugins which will wrap widgets, such as zsh-autosuggestions or fast-syntax-highlighting- Completions should be configured before
compinit
, as stated in the zsh-completions manual installation guide.
Manual
First, clone this repository.
git clone https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab ~/somewhere
Then add the following line to your ~/.zshrc
.
autoload -U compinit; compinit
source ~/somewhere/fzf-tab.plugin.zsh
Antigen
antigen bundle Aloxaf/fzf-tab
Zinit
zinit light Aloxaf/fzf-tab
Oh-My-Zsh
Clone this repository to your custom directory and then add fzf-tab
to your plugin list.
git clone https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/fzf-tab
Prezto
Clone this repository to your contrib directory and then add fzf-tab
to your module list in .zpreztorc
.
git clone https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab $ZPREZTODIR/contrib/fzf-tab
Usage
Just press <kbd>Tab</kbd> as usual~
Available keybindings:
-
<kbd>Ctrl</kdb>+<kdb>Space</kbd>: select multiple results, can be configured by
fzf-bindings
tag -
<kbd>F1</kbd>/<kbd>F2</kbd>: switch between groups, can be configured by
switch-group
tag -
<kbd>/</kbd>: trigger continuous completion (useful when completing a deep path), can be configured by
continuous-trigger
tag
Available commands:
-
disable-fzf-tab
: disable fzf-tab and fallback to compsys -
enable-fzf-tab
: enable fzf-tab -
toggle-fzf-tab
: toggle the state of fzf-tab. This is also a zle widget.
Configure
A common configuration is:
# disable sort when completing `git checkout`
zstyle ':completion:*:git-checkout:*' sort false
# set descriptions format to enable group support
# NOTE: don't use escape sequences (like '%F{red}%d%f') here, fzf-tab will ignore them
zstyle ':completion:*:descriptions' format '[%d]'
# set list-colors to enable filename colorizing
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}
# force zsh not to show completion menu, which allows fzf-tab to capture the unambiguous prefix
zstyle ':completion:*' menu no
# preview directory's content with eza when completing cd
zstyle ':fzf-tab:complete:cd:*' fzf-preview 'eza -1 --color=always $realpath'
# custom fzf flags
# NOTE: fzf-tab does not follow FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS by default
zstyle ':fzf-tab:*' fzf-flags --color=fg:1,fg+:2 --bind=tab:accept
# To make fzf-tab follow FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS.
# NOTE: This may lead to unexpected behavior since some flags break this plugin. See Aloxaf/fzf-tab#455.
zstyle ':fzf-tab:*' use-fzf-default-opts yes
# switch group using `<` and `>`
zstyle ':fzf-tab:*' switch-group '<' '>'
Tmux
If you're using tmux >= 3.2, we provide a script ftb-tmux-popup
to make full use of it's "popup" feature.
zstyle ':fzf-tab:*' fzf-command ftb-tmux-popup
BTW, you can also use this script outside the fzf-tab.
ls | ftb-tmux-popup
For more information, please see Wiki#Configuration.
Binary module
By default, fzf-tab uses zsh-ls-colors to parse and apply ZLS_COLORS if you have set the list-colors
tag.
However, it is a pure zsh script and is slow if you have too many files to colorize.
fzf-tab is shipped with a binary module to speed up this process. You can build it with build-fzf-tab-module
, then it will be enabled automatically.
Difference from other plugins
fzf-tab doesn't do "complete", it just shows you the results of the default completion system.
So it works EVERYWHERE (variables, function names, directory stack, in-word completion, etc.). And most of your configuration for default completion system is still valid.
Compatibility with other plugins
Some plugins may also bind "^I" to their custom widget, like fzf/shell/completion.zsh or ohmyzsh/lib/completion.zsh.
By default, fzf-tab will call the widget previously bound to "^I" to get the completion list. So there is no problem in most cases, unless fzf-tab is initialized before a plugin which doesn't handle the previous binding properly.
So if you find your fzf-tab doesn't work properly, please make sure it is the last plugin to bind "^I" (If you don't know what I mean, just put it to the end of your plugin list).
Related projects
- https://github.com/lincheney/fzf-tab-completion (fzf tab completion for zsh, bash and GNU readline apps)