refine current shown list

[phanen]

no ansi

fd | fzf --multi --bind 'ctrl-g:clear-selection+select-all+reload(cat {+f})+clear-query'

work with ansi

Within one bind, clear-query seems only work after other actions done.

With this way we can wait clear-query "happened":

fd --color=always |
  fzf --multi --ansi \
    --bind 'ctrl-g:+clear-selection+select-all+clear-query+execute-silent:touch /tmp/wait-result' \
    --bind "result:+transform:[ -f /tmp/wait-result ] && { rm /tmp/wait-result; echo +toggle-all+exclude-multi; }"

[junegunn]

Within one bind, clear-query seems only work after other actions done.

Yeah, that's because search is performed by another thread. The query is cleared, but we don't have the result for the empty query yet at the moment.

Would it be useful if we add an action for this? I can't think of a good name, but something like exclude-rest or exclude-non-match.

[phanen]

If adding new actions: maybe focus on better UX (no flick on screen) since we can already hack to achieve the same semantics.

Some candidate:

• refine-selected
• refine-match
• refine-selected-and-match (aggregation)
• refine-selected-or-match (fallback)

No idea about which one is most useful, haha...

But for tradeoff (complexity? maintainable?): if we have refine-selected, then seems having all? (combine with existing select-all/clear-selection/deselect-all... at least no need to tweak query content in a tricky way).

[phanen]

Oh I forget refine-selected here only make sense when user enable --multi...
Or just a select-no-match/toggle-selected-from-all-list (my hack is mainly implementing this action)