Insert a command from history from any point in line editor

[rieje]

I would like to insert a command from history from any point in the line editor. Essentially, have another binding that does the exact same as Ctrl-R (insert command from history) except it is not narrowed down by what is currently in the line editor as CTRL-R does.

CTRL-R also does some nice things like not printing duplicate commands, empty lines, etc. that should preferably be replicated.

A use case would be something like: <some command> | <insert any command available in CTRL-R that is not narrowed by "<some command> |", i.e. as if you pressed CTRL-R with the line editor being empty> . Is this possible?

[rayiik]

Is this what you mean?

[rayiik]

since you didn't reply ill assume it is and explain. When the a function is bound (eg bind -x ) to a key and sourced what happens is the shell (the ones that use readline) takes a snapshot of whats written in the consol and saves it to the variable $READLINE_LINE and saves the cursor position (n) as $READLINE_POINT and when you exit out the screen is sent a clrs (clear screen) and it then replaces your command line with $READLINE_LINE and places your cursor at $READLINE_POINT so your function should first save the variables as something esle

__main__() {
origPoint="$READLINE_POINT"
orgLine="$READLINE_LINE"
choice="$(some  command  |  fzf-command --flags --preview='whatever {}')"
READLINE_LINE="$READLINE_LINE $(tr '\n' ' ' <<<"${_choice#*$'\t'}")"
  if [[ -n "$READLINE_LINE" ]]; then
  print '%s '"$READLINE_LINE" | \
   tr \\n \\s;
   READLINE_POINT=0x7fffffff; else
   READLINE_POINT=0x7fffffff
 fi
unset origPoint
unset origLine
unset nwLine

So you just need a command that populates fzf with a list of commands, I use:

coms () {
case "$PATH" in
 (*[!:]:) PATH="$PATH:" ;;
 esac
 set -f; IFS=:
   for dir in $PATH; do
   set +f
   [ -z "$dir" ] && dir="."
   for file in "$dir"/*; do
   if [ -x "$file" ] && ! [ -d "$file" ]; then
   printf '%s = %s\n' "${file##*/}" "$file"
   fi
   done
   done
   }

from here you can either do

coms | awk '{print $1}'

#or

coms | fzf --nth 1