Add possibility to skip interactive variable queries

[carlfriedrich]

I love navi's ability to interactivly query variable values. However, there are occasions where I'd like to skip this and instead print the whole command as-is (including its variable names) to the command line and modify it by hand.

Is that somehow possible? Optimal workflow would be a dedicated keybinding for it (e.g. Alt+Enter), so that I can decide this while the navi search dialog is open. I'm not sure how this would be possible on a technical level, since fzf does not offer different exit types (or does it?).

Any ideas how this could be done?

[carlfriedrich]

I think this should be possible using fzf's --expect argument:

--expect=KEY[,..]
       Comma-separated list of keys that can be used to complete fzf in addition to  the  default  enter  key.
       When this option is set, fzf will print the name of the key pressed as the first line of its output (or
       as the second line if --print-query is also used). The line will be empty if fzf is completed with  the
       default  enter  key.  If  --expect option is specified multiple times, fzf will expect the union of the
       keys. --no-expect will clear the list.
 
       e.g.
            fzf --expect=ctrl-v,ctrl-t,alt-s --expect=f1,f2,~,@

[denisidoro]

There's also the --print flag

[carlfriedrich]

@denisidoro Why are you closing this? I would still like to implement it, I just did not have the time, yet.
And what do you mean with the --print flag? Is this a flag of navi or fzf and how would that help in this case?

[denisidoro]

navi --print does what you're proposing, if my understanding is correct

[carlfriedrich]

@denisidoro No, that doesn't do what I want. navi --print still queries the variables interactively. I want to be able to skip that. It is just not efficient in some scenarios, e.g. when the argument is a file, where I could use tab completion on the shell. This is not possible when the arguments are queried interactively.

[carlfriedrich]

Hi @denisidoro, thanks for adding the new flag. Can you give me a hint how I would use this in combination with the shell widget?