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Marker: A terminal command palette

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CTRL-K for bookmarking seems like a possible mistake. That is a very common key combination for killing text forward from a cursor, and one which I use often every day.

It would also be wonderful to see this work with shells beyond Bash and Zsh, such as Fish or Csh for example.

Agreed, why use such a simple and commonly used command shortcut? This will most certainly conflict with my current ZSH. Probably one of the worst possible choices in terms of likelihood of clashing.

Question: when using `marker mark` does it bookmark the previously used command?

This seems like a non-issue since it supports changing the key combinations with environmental variables. Anyone who uses Ctrl-K regularly (which I imagine is not the majority of shell users) can override the combo in their shell's rc file.

Yes I saw that.

Generally I don’t want to have to resort to ENV config variables in order to get back to the default shell navigation key combinations which have worked on POSIX shells for thirty years.

It’s nice they allow for overriding, but I’d prefer if people were more cognizant of built-in shell navigation.

environment variables allow assignment of different keybindings, according to the readme.

Looks nice! By command pallet, I understood as color pallet, as in color scheme. But this looks pretty handy!

Thats what my brain read it as well.

fzf does the same thing, but with more integrations: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

`fzf` is more of a broad interface for fuzzy matching lists with any number of possible uses.

Marker uses a similar interface but is built entirely for a particular use case (bookmarking, recalling, and autofilling commands with their options and placeholder parameters). Something that could have been built on top of fzf but it's not the same thing.

FZF has Marker integration

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples#fzf-marker

I've been searching for this for years! Never could figure out what people would call it, but I knew it must exist. Goodbye Ctrl+R x 100.

I'm personally achieving something like this with a combination of binding Ctrl-R to fzf's history search and using zsh's vim command edit mode: https://asciinema.org/a/fELHDWUytNGMBEFBGEjo5jJO7

Are your dotfiles available anywhere? I'd be interested in trying out this setup.

It's a bit messy, but everything related to zsh should be in here [1]. Apparently the vim command editor thing comes at least partly from prezto [2]

[1]: https://github.com/Infinisil/system/blob/master/config/new-m...

[2]: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

This seems very cool! A nice cross between tl;dr-pages and zsh autocompletion. Installed.

I have been wanting to do something like this and been procrastinating hoping someone will do it for me.

Looks cool. I will try it today

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