How to use kak_selection?

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Hello,

I did a command to launch a script to grep word(fzf+rg) in project with the help of connect.kak.

map global user -docstring 'open FZF fuzzy word finder' g ':@ rfzf;tmux-terminal-zoom 1<ret>'

I launch the script with @ rfzf and after I zoom the pane in tmux with tmux-terminal-zoom 1.
I would like to add kakoune selection (should be something like $kak-selection) in the prompt of the fzf launched script but I can’t find how to add it ? From that I saw in different forum it is not so easy I believed.

Regards

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$kak_selection should work fine in a expanded shell block, such as:

%sh{ echo "$kak_selection" }

You can also expand it as string in kakoune script with %val{selection}.

3

I could test with :

@ rfzf;tmux-terminal-zoom 1;%sh{ echo "$kak_selection" }

And the selection is retrieved.
But it is trying to do a third command with the selection.
How could I do to have it in the prompt of fzf open by the script ?

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It really depends on what the rfzf command and @ does.

Assuming that @ launches some new terminal window with the commands passed as arguments, then you’d probably want to pass $kak_selection as some kind of argument to the rfzf command.

5

Thanks a lot.
You help me to think well.
I solved the issue with :

map global user -docstring 'open FZF fuzzy word finder' g ':@ rfzf %sh{ echo "$kak_selection" };tmux-terminal-zoom 1<ret>'

For information, if someone need it, the rfzf script is as :

#!/usr/bin/env bash
RG_PREFIX="rg --column --line-number --no-heading --color=always --smart-case "
INITIAL_QUERY="${*:-}"
: | fzf --ansi --disabled --query "$INITIAL_QUERY" \
    --bind "start:reload:$RG_PREFIX {q}" \
    --bind "change:reload:sleep 0.1; $RG_PREFIX {q} || true" \
    --delimiter : \
    --preview 'bat --color=always {1} --highlight-line {2}' \
    --preview-window 'up,60%,border-bottom,+{2}+3/3,~3' \
    --bind 'enter:become($EDITOR {1} +{2})'

And I use the plugin connect.kak for the command :@ rfzf :
kakounedotcom/connect.kak: Connect a program to Kakoune clients (github.com)

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In this case you should use the value directly instead of spawning a shell just to get it back. $kak_selection is automatically injected in shell environment with the value of %opt{selection}, so it’s a roundabout way.

Try this instead:

map global user -docstring 'open FZF fuzzy word finder' g ':@ rfzf %val{selection};tmux-terminal-zoom 1<ret>'
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Thanks, I tested it ok.