Feature request: ctrl-t start with current word in search

[kaddkaka]

Checklist

• I have read through the manual page (man fzf)
• I have searched through the existing issues
• For bug reports, I have checked if the bug is reproducible in the latest version of fzf

Output of fzf --version

0.58.0 (65db735)

OS

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows
• Etc.

Shell

• bash
• zsh
• fish

Problem / Steps to reproduce

This is a new request for an existing closed issue: #3195 "Option for Ctrl-T to use current command-line content as a search pattern"

I believe I have a usecase that wasn't discussed in the previous issue where invoking ctrl-T and using the current WORD as a starting point would be useful: Opening png files with firefox.

The issue is that firefox tries to be helpful and among the completions doesn't include files it thinks you don't want to open. Example:

mkdir pictures
touch pictures/potato.png
firefox pictures/<TAB>

Result: potato.png does not get completed.

My FZF configuration:

source "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fzf/key-bindings.bash"
source "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bash/fzf-bash-completion.sh"
bind -x '"\t": fzf_bash_completion'

Firefox does support opening png:s so this is arguably an issue with firefox, but it would be nice to circumvent it by invoking ctrl-t as described here.

Questions: Are there situations when one would prefer that [a-z/] followed by <TAB> doesn't include the current word in the search pattern?

[junegunn]

Have you tried using fuzzy completion? i.e. firefox pictures/**<TAB>

My FZF configuration:

source "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fzf/key-bindings.bash"
source "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bash/fzf-bash-completion.sh"
bind -x '"\t": fzf_bash_completion'

This is quite different from our current recommendation.

• https://github.com/junegunn/fzf?tab=readme-ov-file#setting-up-shell-integration

Could you share how you ended up with it?

[kaddkaka]

I probably invented source "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fzf/key-bindings.bash by myself, can't remember. The other two lines of config are from: https://github.com/lincheney/fzf-tab-completion

I removed that and tried with eval "$(fzf --bash)" as per the instructions now, and ** on it's own works, but firefox ** does not show anything. (Is firefox hijacking the completion mechanism before fzf get's to do anything?)

In a folder with this content:

.
├── a.html
├── b.png
├── c.svg
├── d.xml
└── subdir

1. ls<TAB> lists all 5
2. ls **<TAB> also lists all 5
3. firefox <TAB> lists a.html and subdir
4. firefox **<TAB> lists none