Option to use keys other than CTRL-A/CTRL-D for select/deselect with Ag?

[chaoren]

I use CTRL-D to exit prompts by habit.

[junegunn]

Yeah, in my case I was constantly annoyed by CTRL-A not moving my cursor to the front, which I do frequently to prepend ' to the query. The keys are not currently configurable, but I'm just going to change them to ALT-A and ALT-D.

[chaoren]

Cool, thanks!

[rainerborene]

ALT-A and ALT-D generates áã characters respectively. Any ideas?

[chaoren]

Do alt keys work in your terminal at all (e.g., ALT-C)? Check your
terminal settings, there should be a setting for sending meta keys.

[junegunn]

neovim/neovim#2440

It's a known issue of neovim and it doesn't look like it's going to be fixed soon-ish. Hmm, maybe I should make the keys configurable for nvim users.

[rainerborene]

Yes, that is a neovim issue indeed. Most options on fzf#vim functions are hardcoded, even for ag and fzf itself. How can we make those options configurable?

[junegunn]

Excerpt from README:

This repository is a bundle of fzf-based commands and mappings extracted from my .vimrc to address such needs. They are not designed to be flexible or configurable, and there's no guarantee of backward-compatibility.

:)

This repository simply provides too many features and trying to make every aspect of it configurable will inevitably make it a big mess. I currently encourage the users to fork it and bend it to their needs. But I do know that many users are not familiar with Vimscript, and I'll think about the options. (and that's the reason I left this issue open.)

[junegunn]

By the way, you can already override the default options as each function will append the extra options provided to the default set of options:

call fzf#vim#ag('query', {'options': '--bind ctrl-a:select-all,ctrl-d:deselect-all'})

[rainerborene]

I agree with you. But at least explain users how they should override current behavior i.e.

command! Search call fzf#vim#ag(<-qargs>, {
  \ 'ag_command': 'ag --hidden %s',
  \ 'fzf_command': 'fzf -m'
  \ })

Better defaults and more flexible overriding instead of a bunch of options.

[junegunn]

fzf#vim#ag in particular takes a variable number of arguments, and ag options can be also given as follows:

call fzf#vim#ag('query', '--hidden', {'options': '--bind ctrl-a:select-all,ctrl-d:deselect-all'})

Note that overriding some default options can break the feature as they may affect the sink implementation.

[rainerborene]

I see. Only problem of fzf#vim#ag function is that escapes the <q-args> by default. If there were an option to disable that it would solve issue #27

[rainerborene]

Nevermind. I'll use your :Grep command ;)

[wwwdata]

If anybody else still has this problem and is using iTerm2 and neovim. You can also configure iTerm2 to send an escape sequence, then alt+a and alt+d will also work, see my screenshot! That's how I did it 😄

[junegunn]

• Esc+

[Abdullah-F]

• Esc+

It is not working macOS 11.5, I opened the key settings in iterm2 profiles, then checked the two Esc+ buttons but still Alt-a does not select all when running Rg query

[Abdullah-F]

• Esc+

It is not working macOS 11.5, I opened the key settings in iterm2 profiles, then checked the two Esc+ buttons but still Alt-a does not select all when running Rg query

let $FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS = '--bind ctrl-a:select-all,ctrl-d:deselect-all' doing this made it work with ctrl key binding, but the option key is not working.

[panosl]

* `Esc+`

I enabled this and still opt+a don't seem to be working for :Rg select all. Has anyone found a workaround?