[Feature Request] History syntax highlighting

[l-deniau]

Checklist

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

Output of fzf --version

0.52.1 (6432f00)

OS

• [X] Linux
• [ ] macOS
• [ ] Windows
• [ ] Etc.

Shell

• [ ] bash
• [X] zsh
• [ ] fish

Problem / Steps to reproduce

I just started to use fzf and i love it. But i've got one problem about the history backsearch with key bidings. I was using https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-word to have a similar features of fuzzy search with Ctrl-R and it has syntax highlighting wich make it visualy more attractive. So i was wondering if it would be possible to get syntax highlighting like zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-word for history backsearch with fzf ? Or add an option to disable only the Ctrl-R key biding so i'm able to use fzf with Ctrl-T and Alt-C and zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-word with Ctrl-R

[l-deniau]

For now i built fzf myself with a modification in key-bindings.zsh like this :

if [[ "${FZF_CTRL_R_COMMAND-x}" != "" ]]; then
zle     -N            fzf-history-widget
bindkey -M emacs '^R' fzf-history-widget
bindkey -M vicmd '^R' fzf-history-widget
bindkey -M viins '^R' fzf-history-widget
fi

and sourcing fzf like this in my zshrc

FZF_CTRL_R_COMMAND= source <(fzf --zsh)

[junegunn]

if it would be possible to get syntax highlighting like zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-word for history backsearch with fzf ?

I'm not sure. We would have to use bat for syntax highlighting, but our recent change to support multi-line display will probably make it difficult to incorporate that into our script.

Related: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/2974

Or add an option to disable only the Ctrl-R key biding

Maybe you can load fzf --zsh first, then the other plugin so that the latter overrides CTRL-R binding of fzf?

[l-deniau]

Maybe you can load fzf --zsh first, then the other plugin so that the latter overrides CTRL-R binding of fzf?

Yes, it works. But I don't find it very convenient.

Is there a specific reason that CTRL-R is the only binding where the command can't be overridden, like CTRL-T and ALT-C ?

[junegunn]

Yes, it works. But I don't find it very convenient.

Thanks for the confirmation, so we do have a workaround.

Is there a specific reason that CTRL-R is the only binding where the command can't be overridden

Mainly because no one has asked for it. Opting out of the other keys was a recent addition (see #3678); we didn't include CTRL-R in the patch because there is no FZF_CTRL_R_COMMAND.