rl_custom_isearch

Hack to customise readline history search.

History search is delegated to a script instead, which receives history lines on stdin and outputs the selected line on stdout.

This relies on https://github.com/lincheney/rl_custom_function

How to use

Build the library:

cargo build --release

You should now have a .so at ./target/release/librl_custom_isearch.so

Copy bin/rl_custom_isearch in to your $PATH (or write your own). The provided script requires fzf

Add to your ~/.inputrc:

$include function rl_custom_isearch /path/to/librl_custom_isearch.so
"\C-r": rl_custom_isearch
"\C-s": rl_custom_isearch

Run something interactive that uses readline, e.g. python:

LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/librl_custom_function.so python

... and press control-r.