awidegreen / clecta

C++ port of garybernhardt/selecta

clecta

This is yet another port of garybernhardt/selecta in C++ using Ncurses for the terminal window. UTF-8 is supported.

Despite the fact that there are already a whole lot of selecta alternatives (fzf, icepick), I decided to write a clone to further explore C++11 (e.g. threads). In addition, I have never done anything with ncurses before.

Some features

• highlight matching string in match list
• switch case sensitivity for search F2
• multiple matchers (Simple string matcher, CmdT matcher): F3
• status-line shows some stats about the candidates
• resize support
• depending on the hardware, matching algorithm is executed concurrent

Keys

• Home go to the beginning match list
• End go to the beginning match list
• F2 toggle case-sensitivity
• F3 switch the matcher
• Arrow-Up and Arrow-Down for selecting string from match list
• ^U Empty search term
• ^N alias for Arrow-Down
• ^P alias for Arrow-Up

to be done

• move matcher in its own (static) library
• ability to load matcher via a library (plugin)
• add more key bindings, see readline
• cmake installation target
• make coloring adjustable (via config file)

Examples

# Use find to get a list of all files, use clecta to select the desired file which shall be opened with vim
vim $(find . | clecta)

Dependencies

• Ncurses

Installation

git clone https://github.com/awidegreen/clecta 
mkdir clecta/build
cd clecta/build
cmake ..
make
# or use: make -j`nproc`

Tests

In the build directory, use:

• the test target: make test or
• run the tests manually: tests/clecta-tests

License

Copyright (c) Armin Widegreen

Distributed under the BSD-Clause-2 License, see LICENSE.