[Bash, gnome terminal] Ctrl+r displaying completions but pressing "enter" does nothing

[apirrone]

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Hello there,

I think the title describes the problem pretty well, here is a screenshot of what I get pressing ctrl+r :

But when I press the "enter" key with an option selected, the menu disappears and nothing happens.

Thanks for your help !

[dieterdemeyer]

I'm having the same issue on macOS.

[junegunn]

I can't reproduce the issue. I suggest that you start bash with a minimal configuration file with only one line

[ -f ~/.fzf.bash ] && source ~/.fzf.bash

and see if you still have the issue. If you don't, then you need to find the culprit in your config.

[dieterdemeyer]

You were right.
In case it helps anyone, in my config the culprit was an alias for the history command itself that screwed with the functionality.

[junegunn]

@dieterdemeyer Okay, if that was the case, we can ensure that the original history command is executed like so

diff --git a/shell/key-bindings.bash b/shell/key-bindings.bash
index be24dec..cb86e98 100644
--- a/shell/key-bindings.bash
+++ b/shell/key-bindings.bash
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ __fzf_history__() (
   local line
   shopt -u nocaseglob nocasematch
   line=$(
-    HISTTIMEFORMAT= history |
+    HISTTIMEFORMAT= command history |
     FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="--height ${FZF_TMUX_HEIGHT:-40%} $FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS --tac --sync -n2..,.. --tiebreak=index --bind=ctrl-r:toggle-sort $FZF_CTRL_R_OPTS +m" $(__fzfcmd) |
     command grep '^ *[0-9]') &&
     if [[ $- =~ H ]]; then

[cliffordfajardo]

OS: MacOS catalina
Shell: Bash
Terminal Emulator: both iterm, terminal
Feature: history fuzzy search

I'm having a similar related issue concerning Ctrl+r for history, except I'm using aliases. (I prefer not remembering too many keyboard shortcuts.)

The issue thats occurring is:
using ctr-r for history works fine and copies the selection back to the prompt

However, if I decide to use a keyboard alias to call the history function __fzf_history__:

alias fzfhistory="__fzf_history__"

the interactive fuzzy finder works, however selecting the result from fzf no longer returns back the text, instead I get back to stdout the line number from history.

[philippemiron]

I had the same issues on MacOs using zsh. It worked with a simple .zshrc file so I was able to identify that settings:

setopt SHARE_HISTORY

prevents somehow fzf from returning to the prompt the selected command when pressing Enter.

Edit: just saw this discussion here.

[LangLangBart]

prevents somehow fzf from returning to the prompt the selected command when pressing Enter.

The specific issue you mentioned for zsh should be fixed in the latest release, 0.56.3.