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(Experimental) Sixel image support in preview window (not available on Windows)

• bin/fzf-preview.sh is added to demonstrate how to display an image using Kitty image protocol or Sixel. You can use it like so:

  fzf --preview='fzf-preview.sh {}'
  

(Experimental) iTerm2 inline image protocol support in preview window (not available on Windows)

# Using https://iterm2.com/utilities/imgcat
fzf --preview 'imgcat -W $FZF_PREVIEW_COLUMNS -H $FZF_PREVIEW_LINES {}'

HTTP server can be configured to accept remote connections

# FZF_API_KEY is required for a non-localhost listen address
export FZF_API_KEY="$(head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64)"
fzf --listen 0.0.0.0:6266

• To allow remote process execution, use --listen-unsafe instead (execute*, reload*, become, preview, change-preview, transform-*)

  fzf --listen-unsafe 0.0.0.0:6266
  

Bug fixes

(Experimental) Added support for Kitty image protocol in the preview window (currently not supported on Windows)

fzf --preview='
  if file --mime-type {} | grep -qF image/; then
    # --transfer-mode=memory is the fastest option but if you want fzf to be able
    # to redraw the image on terminal resize or on "change-preview-window",
    # you need to use --transfer-mode=stream.
    kitty icat --clear --transfer-mode=memory --stdin=no --place=${FZF_PREVIEW_COLUMNS}x${FZF_PREVIEW_LINES}@0x0 {} | sed \$d
  else
    bat --color=always {}
  fi
'

(Experimental) --listen server can report program state in JSON format (GET /)

# fzf server started in "headless" mode
fzf --listen 6266 2> /dev/null

# Get program state
curl localhost:6266 | jq .

# Increase the number of items returned (default: 100)
curl localhost:6266?limit=1000 | jq .

--listen server can be secured by setting $FZF_API_KEY environment variable.

export FZF_API_KEY="$(head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64)"

# Server
fzf --listen 6266

# Client
curl localhost:6266 -H "x-api-key: $FZF_API_KEY" -d 'change-query(yo)'

Added toggle-header action

Added mouse events for --bind

• scroll-up (bound to up)
• scroll-down (bound to down)
• shift-scroll-up (bound to toggle+up)
• shift-scroll-down (bound to toggle+down)
• shift-left-click (bound to toggle)
• shift-right-click (bound to toggle)
• preview-scroll-up (bound to preview-up)
• preview-scroll-down (bound to preview-down)

# Twice faster scrolling both in the main window and the preview window
fzf --bind 'scroll-up:up+up,scroll-down:down+down' \
    --bind 'preview-scroll-up:preview-up+preview-up' \
    --bind 'preview-scroll-down:preview-down+preview-down' \
    --preview 'cat {}'

Added offset-up and offset-down actions

# Scrolling will behave similarly to CTRL-E and CTRL-Y of vim
fzf --bind scroll-up:offset-up,scroll-down:offset-down \
    --bind ctrl-y:offset-up,ctrl-e:offset-down \
    --scroll-off=5

Shell extensions

• Updated bash completion for fzf options
• bash key bindings no longer requires perl; it will use awk or mawk instead if perl is not found
• Basic context-aware completion for ssh command
• Applied --scheme=path for better ordering of the result

Bug fixes and improvements

• Similarly to block, this style is suitable when using a different background color because the window is completely contained within the border.
• This style may not render correctly depending on the font and the terminal emulator.
• thinblock

  • BAT_THEME=GitHub fzf --info=right --border=thinblock --preview-window=border-thinblock \
        --margin=3 --scrollbar=▏▕ --preview='bat --color=always --style=numbers {}' \
        --color=light,query:238,fg:238,bg:251,bg+:249,gutter:251,border:248,preview-bg:253
    

    
• block

  • BAT_THEME=GitHub fzf --info=right --border=block --preview-window=border-block \
        --margin=3 --scrollbar=▌▐ --separator=━ --preview='bat --color=always --style=numbers {}' \
        --color=light,query:238,fg:238,bg:251,bg+:249,gutter:251,border:248,preview-bg:253,preview-border:252
    

    

Added color name preview-border and preview-scrollbar

Added new border style block which uses block elements

--scrollbar can take two characters, one for the main window, the other for the preview window

Putting it altogether:

fzf-tmux -p 80% --padding 1,2 --preview 'bat --style=plain --color=always {}' \
    --color 'bg:237,bg+:235,gutter:237,border:238,scrollbar:236' \
    --color 'preview-bg:235,preview-border:236,preview-scrollbar:234' \
    --preview-window 'border-block' --border block --scrollbar '▌▐'

Bug fixes and improvements

• Added track action which makes fzf track the current item when the search result is updated. If the user manually moves the cursor, or the item is not in the updated search result, tracking is automatically disabled. Tracking is useful when you want to see the surrounding items by deleting the query string.

  # Narrow down the list with a query, point to a command,
  # and hit CTRL-T to see its surrounding commands.
  export FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS="
    --preview 'echo {}' --preview-window up:3:hidden:wrap
    --bind 'ctrl-/:toggle-preview'
    --bind 'ctrl-t:track+clear-query'
    --bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(echo -n {2..} | pbcopy)+abort'
    --color header:italic
    --header 'Press CTRL-Y to copy command into clipboard'"
  

• Added change-header(...)
• Added transform-header(...)
• Added toggle-track action

• However, using --track with --tac is not recommended. The resulting behavior can be very confusing.

# Automatically select the only match
seq 10 | fzf --bind one:accept

git log --oneline --graph --color=always | nl |
    fzf --ansi --track --no-sort --layout=reverse-list

# Automatic port assignment
fzf --listen --bind 'start:execute-silent:echo $FZF_PORT > /tmp/fzf-port'

# Say hello
curl "localhost:$(cat /tmp/fzf-port)" -d 'preview:echo Hello, fzf is listening on $FZF_PORT.'

printf "foo\rbar\nbaz" | fzf --read0 --preview 'echo {}'

fzf --preview 'head -1000 /dev/random'

• become(...) - Replace the current fzf process with the specified command using execve(2) system call. See https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#turning-into-a-different-process for more information.

  # Open selected files in Vim
  fzf --multi --bind 'enter:become(vim {+})'
  
  # Open the file in Vim and go to the line
  git grep --line-number . |
      fzf --delimiter : --nth 3.. --bind 'enter:become(vim {1} +{2})'
  

  • This action is not supported on Windows
• show-preview
• hide-preview

• --preview-window 0,hidden should not execute the preview command until toggle-preview action is triggered

fzf --info 'inline: ╱ ' --prompt '╱ ' --color prompt:bright-yellow

• focus - Triggered when the focus changes due to a vertical cursor movement or a search result update

  fzf --bind 'focus:transform-preview-label:echo [ {} ]' --preview 'cat {}'
  
  # Any action bound to the event runs synchronously and thus can make the interface sluggish
  # e.g. lolcat isn't one of the fastest programs, and every cursor movement in
  #      fzf will be noticeably affected by its execution time
  fzf --bind 'focus:transform-preview-label:echo [ {} ] | lolcat -f' --preview 'cat {}'
  
  # Beware not to introduce an infinite loop
  seq 10 | fzf --bind 'focus:up' --cycle
  

• change-border-label
• change-preview-label
• transform-border-label
• transform-preview-label

# Start HTTP server on port 6266
fzf --listen 6266

# Send actions to the server
curl localhost:6266 -d 'reload(seq 100)+change-prompt(hundred> )'

# Hide scrollbar
fzf --no-scrollbar

# Customize scrollbar
fzf --scrollbar ┆ --color scrollbar:blue

• Added load event that is triggered when the input stream is complete and the initial processing of the list is complete.

  # Change the prompt to "loaded" when the input stream is complete
  (seq 10; sleep 1; seq 11 20) | fzf --prompt 'Loading> ' --bind 'load:change-prompt:Loaded> '
  
  # You can use it instead of 'start' event without `--sync` if asynchronous
  # trigger is not an issue.
  (seq 10; sleep 1; seq 11 20) | fzf --bind 'load:last'
  

• Added pos(...) action to move the cursor to the numeric position
  • first and last are equivalent to pos(1) and pos(-1) respectively

  # Put the cursor on the 10th item
  seq 100 | fzf --sync --bind 'start:pos(10)'
  
  # Put the cursor on the 10th to last item
  seq 100 | fzf --sync --bind 'start:pos(-10)'
  

• Added reload-sync(...) action which replaces the current list only after the reload process is complete. This is useful when the command takes a while to produce the initial output and you don't want fzf to run against an empty list while the command is running.

  # You can still filter and select entries from the initial list for 3 seconds
  seq 100 | fzf --bind 'load:reload-sync(sleep 3; seq 1000)+unbind(load)'
  

• Added next-selected and prev-selected actions to move between selected items

  # `next-selected` will move the pointer to the next selected item below the current line
  # `prev-selected` will move the pointer to the previous selected item above the current line
  seq 10 | fzf --multi --bind ctrl-n:next-selected,ctrl-p:prev-selected
  
  # Both actions respect --layout option
  seq 10 | fzf --multi --bind ctrl-n:next-selected,ctrl-p:prev-selected --layout reverse
  

• Added change-query(...) action that simply changes the query string to the given static string. This can be useful when used with --listen.

  curl localhost:6266 -d "change-query:$(date)"
  

• Added transform-prompt(...) action for transforming the prompt string using an external command

  # Press space to change the prompt string using an external command
  # (only the first line of the output is taken)
  fzf --bind 'space:reload(ls),load:transform-prompt(printf "%s> " "$(date)")'
  

• Added transform-query(...) action for transforming the query string using an external command

  # Press space to convert the query to uppercase letters
  fzf --bind 'space:transform-query(tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" <<< {q})'
  
  # Bind it to 'change' event for automatic conversion
  fzf --bind 'change:transform-query(tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" <<< {q})'
  
  # Can only type numbers
  fzf --bind 'change:transform-query(sed "s/[^0-9]//g" <<< {q})'
  

• put action can optionally take an argument string

  # a will put 'alpha' on the prompt, ctrl-b will put 'bravo'
  fzf --bind 'a:put+put(lpha),ctrl-b:put(bravo)'
  

• On Vim, the variable will be automatically set if &ambiwidth is double

• fzf will always execute the preview command if the command template contains {q} even when it's empty. If you prefer the old behavior, you'll have to check if {q} is empty in your command.

  # This will show // even when the query is empty
  : | fzf --preview 'echo /{q}/'
  
  # But if you don't want it,
  : | fzf --preview '[ -n {q} ] || exit; echo /{q}/'
  

• double-click will behave the same as enter unless otherwise specified, so you don't have to repeat the same action twice in --bind in most cases.

  # No need to bind 'double-click' to the same action
  fzf --bind 'enter:execute:less {}' # --bind 'double-click:execute:less {}'
  

• If the color for separator is not specified, it will default to the color for border. Same holds true for scrollbar. This is to reduce the number of configuration items required to achieve a consistent color scheme.
• If follow flag is specified in --preview-window option, fzf will automatically scroll to the bottom of the streaming preview output. But when the user manually scrolls the window, the following stops. With this version, fzf will resume following if the user scrolls the window to the bottom.
• Default border style on Windows is changed to sharp because some Windows terminals are not capable of displaying rounded border characters correctly.