Bug#775967: RFP: selector
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: selector
Version: 1.1.7
Upstream Author: F.Fleuret
* URL : http://www.idiap.ch/~fleuret/software.html#selector
* License : (GPL 3)
Description: selector is a real-time pattern matcher for console
"The selector command is a real-time interactive pattern matcher in
console. It can be used to visit efficiently files in general, and shell
history in particular. For the latter, contrary to what the readline C-r
does, it does not show only one entry at a time, but restricts in real
time the display to all the entries matching the pattern. You can at any
time select one, which will be injected in the input buffer of the
current tty.
"
It is a bit difficult to explain what this does without indicating an
example or two. pretty much it is a program that offers to auto-type
text to the command prompt but from the convenience of a menu list. The
menu list in question is something that selector presents upon execution
after given a text file to it (or a redirected stream if no textfile).
The real-time pattern matching of the program is presented to the user
when selector has started. Using up and down arrow keys selects
different list items but while using a-z keys(or typing strings) the
menu list dynamically updates itself on the matched alhanumeric string.
Once an item is chosen, the "enter" key is used to quickly close
selector and the selected text is auto-typed into the command-prompt.
Finally on the the command-prompt, the selected text which has been
auto-typed is not sent with an ending "enter", so in case there needs to
be a minor edit of the command it can still be done before finally
committing it.
it would be good if this program is available for debian..
thanks
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