Fzf: Bash/Emacs-style Key-Bindings

[nordlow]

I really love fzf except for the default key-bindings as I want the Bash/Emacs mappings. Especially:

• Ctrl-k: Delete rest of the line into the kill buffer
• Ctrl-t: Transpose characters around cursor
• Alt-t: Transpose words around cursor
  and probably more I'll disover as I needed them.

Is there a way to change these?

[eqyiel]

This depends on the shell you're using, for example

zsh: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/b46227dcb6f1718d66ad828443d9f03a4bd58c4c/shell/key-bindings.zsh#L36
bash: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/b46227dcb6f1718d66ad828443d9f03a4bd58c4c/shell/key-bindings.bash#L75

You can just override these in your shell initialization files. For example, zsh's bindkey: https://github.com/eqyiel/dotfiles/blob/dff548627e65fd06a318de4d38f892768eaec1b0/nix/.config/nixpkgs/home/config/zsh/default.nix#L330-L337

[junegunn]

CTRL-K functionality is available via kill-line action

fzf --bind ctrl-k:kill-line

If you use it a lot, you might want to add --bind option to your FZF_DEFAULTS_OPTS.

transpose-words is not needed since fzf doesn't care about the order of the search terms. i.e. foo bar and bar foo are treated the same. If you want foo to appear before bar, type in foobar instead.

transpose-chars is not available.

[nordlow]

In which file should I put

fzf --bind ctrl-k:kill-line

?