pyselecta

A fuzzy text selector for files and anything else you need to select

Inspired by Gary Bernhardt's selecta.

Unlike selecta, pyselecta doesn't include any interactive functionality. You give it a list of options and a search term and it returns matches.

Installation

$ pip install pyselecta

This will give you the pyselecta shell command.

Usage

$ find . -type f | pyselecta "models"

This will return a newline separated list of file paths with the best candidate on top.

$ find . -type f | pyselecta

Omitting the search term just copies the stdin to stdout.

Vim integration (ctrlp)

Unlike the original selecta, pyselecta works in MacVim, too.

Add this to your vimrc.

let g:selecta_path = "pyselecta"

function! SelectaMatch(items, str, limit, mmode, ispath, crfile, regex)
    let cachefile = ctrlp#utils#cachedir().'/selecta.cache'

    if !( filereadable(cachefile) && a:items == readfile(cachefile) )
        call writefile(a:items, cachefile)
    endif

    if !filereadable(cachefile)
        return []
    endif

    let cmd = "cat ".cachefile." | ".g:selecta_path." ".a:str
    return split(system(cmd), "\n")

endfunction

let g:ctrlp_match_func = {'match' : 'SelectaMatch' }

License

BSD, short and sweet