Adding opened file to history

[joshuamcginnis]

fe [FUZZY PATTERN] | Open selected file with $EDITOR

I use fe often, but I recently setup fzf on a new machine and I realized that after I select a file using fe and the file is opened with my $EDITOR (in this case, vim), when I exit vim, there is nothing added to my zsh history. I often will close out a file and would like to just quickly go back to it.

Is there a way to add the command used to open a file with fe to history?

[u1and0]

How about it?

 fe() {
   local IFS=$'\n'
   local files=($(fzf-tmux --query="$1" --multi --select-1 --exit-0))
-  [[ -n "$files" ]] && ${EDITOR:-vim} "${files[@]}"
+  [[ -n "$files" ]] && echo "${EDITOR:-vim} ${files[@]}" | runcmd
 }

runcmd is included in fzf-extra.sh

# utility function used to run the command in the shell
runcmd () {
  perl -e 'ioctl STDOUT, 0x5412, $_ for split //, <>'
}

[joshuamcginnis]

Thanks @u1and0 - I appreciate this.

How would you suggest making these changes locally? I use zplug currently to manage my zsh plugins. Is there an opportunity for a PR that I could contribute that would make these changes available to everyone?

[joshuamcginnis]

I also tested this and it didn't work. It has something to do with runcmd. For example, this hangs:

vim fzf-extras.sh | runcmd and this just returns ls | runcmd

[u1and0]

Try echo "vim fzf-extras.sh" | runcmd

[joshuamcginnis]

This also does not work - it just returns.

Presuming we find a working version, how do you recommend I make this change locally in a way that will ensure I continue to receive upstream updates?

[u1and0]

Did you try? https://github.com/atweiden/fzf-extras/issues/15#issuecomment-497893019

echo $(vim fzf-extra.sh) | runcmd is bad. I modified echo "vim fzf-extra.sh | runcmd" in few minuets later.

[joshuamcginnis]

I tried both. The second one just echos the command.

╰─$ echo "vim fzf-extra.sh | runcmd"                                                                                                                                                     127 ↵
vim fzf-extra.sh | runcmd

[u1and0]

╰─$ echo "vim fzf-extra.sh | runcmd"

Look more carefully, end of double quote position must be BEFORE PIPE.

We would like to pass the strings "vim [filename]" to runcmd.

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I tried both. The second one just echos the command.

╰─$ echo "vim fzf-extra.sh | runcmd" 127 ↵

vim fzf-extra.sh | runcmd

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[joshuamcginnis]

It still just returns

╭─me ~ 
╰─$ echo "vim fzf-extras.sh" | runcmd ↵
╭─me ~ 
╰─$