0.62.0

• Relaxed the --color option syntax to allow whitespace-separated entries (in addition to commas), making multi-line definitions easier to write and read

  # seoul256-light
  fzf --style full --color='
    fg:#616161 fg+:#616161
    bg:#ffffff bg+:#e9e9e9 alt-bg:#f1f1f1
    hl:#719872 hl+:#719899
    pointer:#e12672 marker:#e17899
    header:#719872
    spinner:#719899 info:#727100
    prompt:#0099bd query:#616161
    border:#e1e1e1
  '

• Added alt-bg color to create striped lines to visually separate rows

  fzf --color bg:237,alt-bg:238,current-bg:236 --highlight-line
  
  declare -f | perl -0777 -pe 's/^}\n/}\0/gm' |
    bat --plain --language bash --color always |
    fzf --read0 --ansi --reverse --multi \
        --color bg:237,alt-bg:238,current-bg:236 --highlight-line

• [fish] Improvements in CTRL-R binding (@bitraid)
  • You can trigger CTRL-R in the middle of a command to insert the selected item
  • You can delete history items with SHIFT-DEL
• Bug fixes and improvements
  • Fixed unnecessary 100ms delay after reload (#4364)
  • Fixed selected-bg not applied to colored items (#4372)

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0.61.3

• Reverted #4351 as it caused tmux run-shell 'fzf --tmux' to fail (#4559 #4560)
• More environment variables for child processes (#4356)

0.61.2

• Fixed panic when using header border without pointer/marker (@phanen)
• Fixed --tmux option when already inside a tmux popup (@peikk0)
• Bug fixes and improvements in CTRL-T binding of fish (#4334) (@bitraid)
• Added --no-tty-default option to make fzf search for the current TTY device instead of defaulting to /dev/tty (#4242)

0.61.1

• Disable bracketed-paste mode on exit. This fixes issue where pasting breaks after running fzf on old bash versions that don't support the mode.

0.61.0

• Added --ghost=TEXT to display a ghost text when the input is empty

  # Display "Type to search" when the input is empty
  fzf --ghost "Type to search"

• Added change-ghost and transform-ghost actions for dynamically changing the ghost text
• Added change-pointer and transform-pointer actions for dynamically changing the pointer sign
• Added r flag for placeholder expression (raw mode) for unquoted output
• Bug fixes and improvements

0.60.3

• Bug fixes and improvements
  • [fish] Enable multiple history commands insertion (#4280) (@bitraid)
  • [walker] Append '/' to directory entries on MSYS2 (#4281)
  • Trim trailing whitespaces after processing ANSI sequences (#4282)
  • Remove temp files before become when using --tmux option (#4283)
  • Fix condition for using item numlines cache (#4285) (@alex-huff)
  • Make --accept-nth compatible with --select-1 (#4287)
  • Increase the query length limit from 300 to 1000 (#4292)
  • [windows] Prevent fzf from consuming user input while paused (#4260)

0.60.2

• Template for --with-nth and --accept-nth now supports {n} which evaluates to the zero-based ordinal index of the item
• Fixed a regression that caused the last field in the "nth" expression to be trimmed when a regular expression delimiter is used
  • Thanks to @phanen for the fix
• Fixed 'jump' action when the pointer is an empty string

0.60.1

• Bug fixes and minor improvements
  • Built-in walker now prints directory entries with a trailing slash
  • Fixed a bug causing unexpected behavior with fzf-tab. Please upgrade if you use it.
• Thanks to @alexeisersun, @bitraid, @Lompik, and @fsc0 for the contributions

0.60.0

Release highlights: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/releases/0.60.0/

• Added --accept-nth for choosing output fields

  ps -ef | fzf --multi --header-lines 1 | awk '{print $2}'
  # Becomes
  ps -ef | fzf --multi --header-lines 1 --accept-nth 2
  
  git branch | fzf | cut -c3-
  # Can be rewritten as
  git branch | fzf --accept-nth -1

• --accept-nth and --with-nth now support a template that includes multiple field index expressions in curly braces

  echo foo,bar,baz | fzf --delimiter , --accept-nth '{1}, {3}, {2}'
    # foo, baz, bar
  
  echo foo,bar,baz | fzf --delimiter , --with-nth '{1},{3},{2},{1..2}'
    # foo,baz,bar,foo,bar

• Added exclude and exclude-multi actions for dynamically excluding items

  seq 100 | fzf --bind 'ctrl-x:exclude'
  
  # 'exclude-multi' will exclude the selected items or the current item
  seq 100 | fzf --multi --bind 'ctrl-x:exclude-multi'

• Preview window now prints wrap indicator when wrapping is enabled

  seq 100 | xargs | fzf --wrap --preview 'echo {}' --preview-window wrap

• Bug fixes and improvements

0.59.0

Release highlights: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/releases/0.59.0/

• Prioritizing file name matches (#4192)
  • Added a new tiebreak option pathname for prioritizing file name matches
  • --scheme=path now sets --tiebreak=pathname,length
  • fzf will automatically choose path scheme
    • when the input is a TTY device, where fzf would start its built-in walker or run $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND which is usually a command for listing files,
    • but not when reload or transform action is bound to start event, because in that case, fzf can't be sure of the input type.
• Added --header-lines-border to display header from --header-lines with a separate border

  # Use --header-lines-border to separate two headers
  ps -ef | fzf --style full --layout reverse --header-lines 1 \
               --bind 'ctrl-r:reload(ps -ef)' --header 'Press CTRL-R to reload' \
               --header-lines-border bottom --no-list-border

• click-header event now sets $FZF_CLICK_HEADER_WORD and $FZF_CLICK_HEADER_NTH. You can use them to implement a clickable header for changing the search scope using the new transform-nth action.

  # Click on the header line to limit search scope
  ps -ef | fzf --style full --layout reverse --header-lines 1 \
               --header-lines-border bottom --no-list-border \
               --color fg:dim,nth:regular \
               --bind 'click-header:transform-nth(
                         echo $FZF_CLICK_HEADER_NTH
                       )+transform-prompt(
                         echo "$FZF_CLICK_HEADER_WORD> "
                       )'

  • $FZF_KEY was updated to expose the type of the click. e.g. click, ctrl-click, etc. You can use it to implement a more sophisticated behavior.
  • kill completion for bash and zsh were updated to use this feature
• Added --no-input option to completely disable and hide the input section

  # Click header to trigger search
  fzf --header '[src] [test]' --no-input --layout reverse \
      --header-border bottom --input-border \
      --bind 'click-header:transform-search:echo ${FZF_CLICK_HEADER_WORD:1:-1}'
  
  # Vim-like mode switch
  fzf --layout reverse-list --no-input \
      --bind 'j:down,k:up,/:show-input+unbind(j,k,/)' \
      --bind 'enter,esc,ctrl-c:transform:
        if [[ $FZF_INPUT_STATE = enabled ]]; then
          echo "rebind(j,k,/)+hide-input"
        elif [[ $FZF_KEY = enter ]]; then
          echo accept
        else
          echo abort
        fi
      '

  • You can later show the input section using show-input or toggle-input action, and hide it again using hide-input, or toggle-input.
• Extended {q} placeholder to support ranges. e.g. {q:1}, {q:2..}, etc.
• Added search(...) and transform-search(...) action to trigger an fzf search with an arbitrary query string. This can be used to extend the search syntax of fzf. In the following example, fzf will use the first word of the query to trigger ripgrep search, and use the rest of the query to perform fzf search within the result.

  export TEMP=$(mktemp -u)
  trap 'rm -f "$TEMP"' EXIT
  
  TRANSFORMER='
    rg_pat={q:1}      # The first word is passed to ripgrep
    fzf_pat={q:2..}   # The rest are passed to fzf
  
    if ! [[ -r "$TEMP" ]] || [[ $rg_pat != $(cat "$TEMP") ]]; then
      echo "$rg_pat" > "$TEMP"
      printf "reload:sleep 0.1; rg --column --line-number --no-heading --color=always --smart-case %q || true" "$rg_pat"
    fi
    echo "+search:$fzf_pat"
  '
  fzf --ansi --disabled \
    --with-shell 'bash -c' \
    --bind "start,change:transform:$TRANSFORMER"

• You can now bind actions to multiple keys and events at once by writing a comma-separated list of keys and events before the colon

  # Load 'ps -ef' output on start and reload it on CTRL-R
  fzf --bind 'start,ctrl-r:reload:ps -ef'

• --min-height option now takes a number followed by +, which tells fzf to show at least that many items in the list section. The default value is now changed to 10+.

  # You will only see the input section which takes 3 lines
  fzf --style=full --height 1% --min-height 3
  
  # You will see 3 items in the list section
  fzf --style full --height 1% --min-height 3+

  • Shell integration scripts were updated to use --min-height 20+ by default
• --header-lines will be displayed at the top in reverse-list layout
• Added bell action to ring the terminal bell

  # Press CTRL-Y to copy the current line to the clipboard and ring the bell
  fzf --bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(echo -n {} | pbcopy)+bell'

• Added toggle-bind action
• Bug fixes and improvements
• Fixed fish script to support fish 3.1.2 or later (@bitraid)