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https://github.com/robturtle/percol.plugin.zsh

Allows interactively incrementally search history/checkout git branches and other stuff
https://github.com/robturtle/percol.plugin.zsh

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Allows interactively incrementally search history/checkout git branches and other stuff

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## percol

**Maintainer:** [@robturtle](https://github.com/robturtle)

It provides two functionalities that allows you search history and resume
background jobs with interactively incremental searching utility powered by
percol.

### Usage

1. Use `Ctrl-R` to search the history.

![interactively search history](https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ke80q5uswz7sqf/percol.plugin1.gif?raw=1)

2. User `Ctrl-H` to search aliases

![](https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvl2lahk7untk64/percol_browse_aliases.gif?raw=1)

3. Use `Ctrl-T` to switch to another git branch

5. Use `Ctrl-Q` to resume background jobs.

![interactively resume background jobs](https://www.dropbox.com/s/u5t5l7jeznv06y8/percol.plugin2.gif?raw=1)

### Installation

0. [Install percol](https://github.com/mooz/percol) by running the following:

```
pip install percol
```

1. Clone the repository into your custom folder. Assuming your custom folder is
at `~/.oh-my-zsh/custom`

```
mkdir -p ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins
git clone https://github.com/robturtle/percol.plugin.zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/percol
```

2. Enable the plugin by adding it to your `plugins` definition in `~/.zshrc`.

```
plugins=(percol)
```

3. Enable Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts
```
mkdir -p ~/.percol.d
touch ~/.percol.d/rc.py
```
And copy-paste the contents into `~/.percol.d/rc.py`.
```python
# file: ~/.percol.d/rc.py
# Emacs like
percol.import_keymap({
"C-h" : lambda percol: percol.command.delete_backward_char(),
"C-d" : lambda percol: percol.command.delete_forward_char(),
"C-k" : lambda percol: percol.command.kill_end_of_line(),
"C-y" : lambda percol: percol.command.yank(),
"C-t" : lambda percol: percol.command.transpose_chars(),
"C-a" : lambda percol: percol.command.beginning_of_line(),
"C-e" : lambda percol: percol.command.end_of_line(),
"C-b" : lambda percol: percol.command.backward_char(),
"C-f" : lambda percol: percol.command.forward_char(),
"M-f" : lambda percol: percol.command.forward_word(),
"M-b" : lambda percol: percol.command.backward_word(),
"M-d" : lambda percol: percol.command.delete_forward_word(),
"M-h" : lambda percol: percol.command.delete_backward_word(),
"C-n" : lambda percol: percol.command.select_next(),
"C-p" : lambda percol: percol.command.select_previous(),
"C-v" : lambda percol: percol.command.select_next_page(),
"M-v" : lambda percol: percol.command.select_previous_page(),
"M-<" : lambda percol: percol.command.select_top(),
"M->" : lambda percol: percol.command.select_bottom(),
"C-m" : lambda percol: percol.finish(),
"C-j" : lambda percol: percol.finish(),
"C-g" : lambda percol: percol.cancel(),
})
```

### Upgrade

```
cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/percol && git pull && cd -
```