A way to use broot as inline selector?

[seqizz]

Hi and thanks for the app.

Sorry for the unclear title, but I'll try to explain. I added this to my .zshrc file:

function _brootize() {
    myargument=`echo $BUFFER | awk '{print $2}'`
    echo `broot --cmd $myargument` # + maybe a trick to print the filename only
}
zle -N _brootize
bindkey '^[b' _brootize

So when I write a command like vim myfile.py and press the hotkey (in this case Alt-B), I wanted to run broot --cmd myfile.py automatically with "myfile.py" applied for fuzzy searching. After I select the file it should drop me to the terminal with vim full/path/to/myfile.py instead of running br/broot everytime and supplying the mandatory verb after space.

But since broot requires some terminal to display stuff (and I am a failed potato to redirect tty/pts) all I got is: IO Error : "Inappropriate ioctl for device (os error 25)" when I try this.

Is there any way to accomplish this? Maybe with different way so we can already start using broot as generic fuzzy completion tool.

Fyi: I wanted to check if there is a similar discussion, but https://miaou.dystroy.org/3490?broot is not working for me

[Canop]

To do this you need to use the shell integration (see https://dystroy.org/broot/documentation/installation/#installation-completion-the-br-shell-function )

You could also define a function directly opening a file with a fuzzy name (calling br --cmd "yourname :e").

It's very similar to what I do go to dirs with dcd: https://dystroy.org/broot/documentation/tricks/#dcd-deep-fuzzy-cd

As for the chat link I'm surprised it doesn't work for you. There are already people discussing in https://miaou.dystroy.org/3490

[seqizz]

Huh, apparently there is something going on with firefox, I was able to open chat with chromium, nevermind 👍

Thanks for the suggestions, dcd is so close to it, but there is a slight catch here I guess:
Currently there is no way to "just print the filename after I choose over TUI".

I've defined following verb:

[[verbs]]
name = "print"
invocation = "_"
execution = "echo {file}"
# leave_broot = false # this didn't work as I expected here anyway :)

and triggered it via broot --cmd "myfile :_", it successfully printed the first match, but I what I'm trying to achieve is to be able to select on the terminal (since my target can be another match which I can see when I run broot --cmd "myfile") so broot can echo that file's name when I enter and quit.

Or maybe I should ask something else. Can I assign "enter" to another verb? 😄

[Canop]

Do I correctly understand that the remaining problem is that you know have to type :_<enter> instead of just doing <enter> ?

And that the problem wouldn't exist at all for you if you could configure the verb mapped to <enter> on files ?

[seqizz]

Do I correctly understand that the remaining problem is that you know have to type :_<enter> instead of just doing <enter> ?

I am not sure what you mean by that, so I'll go with no :) I'll try again.

What I wanted get from broot is: In some way, after I press enter on the selection window, it exits and prints the path of selected file to the stdout. Nothing more.

I assume dcd would benefit from that also. Instead of "I'm feeling lucky" mode, you can run dcd foldername and broot can open its interface to show you all matching folders and let you select the one you'd like to cd into.

And that the problem wouldn't exist at all for you if you could configure the verb mapped to <enter> on files ?

Yes, this way I can map enter button to "echo {file}" so it should work anyway.

Thanks for the patience 😄

[Canop]

This related issue might clarify things: #25

Note that the problem with termion might be solved in a near future as I'm currently rewriting broot to use crossterm instead of termion (and by the way allow windows compatibility).

[seqizz]

Aaah alright. That's exactly what I meant.

I thought it should be trivial since its just printing a generated string to stdout, didn't realize a deeper library problem.

I'll follow the other issue then, thanks! :)