Feature Request: Ability to Default Multi Items to Selected

[hlipnick]

• [x] I have read through the manual page (man fzf)
• [x] I have the latest version of fzf
• [x] I have searched through the existing issues

Info

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

Problem / Steps to reproduce

This is less a problem than a feature request. I'd like to be able to specify certain (or all) items of the input to default to being 'checked' or selected when in multi mode. Perhaps a regex run on each line of input to determine if it should be checked? So could be lines starting with a 1 start as checked?

My apologies if there is already some way to achieve this but I was not able to determine how to do so by reading through the manual and other issues.

[vovcacik]

Duplicate #395, but I think there are more recent issues, where you might find junegunn's current stance on this issue.

[junegunn]

No plan to support regex-based solution. But with the latest version of fzf, you can try using start or load event to perform actions to select the entries you want.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/3548#issuecomment-1868433219

If writing down the list of actions is not feasible, you can perhaps write a script that performs multiple actions via HTTP server (--listen).