Improve multi-select mode to select all remaining entries.

[0hax]

• I have read through the manual page (man fzf)
• I have the latest version of fzf
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Info

• OS
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
  • Etc.
• Shell
  • bash
  • zsh
  • fish

Problem / Steps to reproduce

In multi-select mode, we can select multiple entries using .
It would be great to be able to select all entries below an entry using another key.
For example, say I have below list with my cursor on "3":

1
2
> 3
4
5
6

Pressing the key 'select all entries below current cursor' would select 3, 4, 5 and 6.

That's more a feature request.

[0hax]

Any idea about that one? I'm fine with trying to implement it if you think it's useful.

[junegunn]

Hmm, not really a fan of the idea. In the default layout, you tend to go up from the bottom of the screen with shift-tab instead of going down from above with tab, which means we would need two actions for completeness.

• select-all-above(-including-the-current-one?)
• select-all-below

What exactly are you trying to implement with the option? Can you give an example?

[0hax]

Ah you are right, it would make sense to have a select-all-above option as well then.
I wanted this feature for a very specific example but I think there could be many usage of it.
Say you want to delete half of random files from:
find . | fzf --bind "ctrl-a:select-all+accept" -m | xargs rm -f
It would be convenient to have a select-all-below option in this case because filtering can't help filter only last 50 files for example due to their random names.