Quick summary

This version introduces many new features centered around the new "raw" mode.

1. Introducing "raw" mode

This version introduces a new "raw" mode (named so because it shows the list
"unfiltered"). In raw mode, non-matching items stay in their original positions,
but appear dimmed. This allows you see surrounding items of a match and better
understand the context of it. You can enable raw mode by default with --raw,
but it's often more useful when toggled dynamically with the toggle-raw
action.

tree | fzf --reverse --bind alt-r:toggle-raw

While non-matching items are displayed in a dimmed color, they are treated just
like matching items, so you place the cursor on them and perform any action. If
you prefer to navigate only through matching items, use the down-match and
up-match actions, which are from now on bound to CTRL-N and CTRL-P
respectively, and also to ALT-DOWN and ALT-UP.

fzf --bind up:up-match,down:down-match

Customizing the behavior

In raw mode, the input list is presented in its original order, unfiltered, and
your cursor will not move to the matching item automatically. Here are ways to
customize the behavior.

# When the result list is updated, move the cursor to the item with the best score
# (assuming sorting is not disabled)
fzf --raw --bind result:best
# Move to the first matching item in the original list
# - $FZF_RAW is set to 0 when raw mode is enabled and the current item is a non-match
# - $FZF_DIRECTION is set to either 'up' or 'down' depending on the layout direction
fzf --raw --bind 'result:first+transform:[[ $FZF_RAW = 0 ]] && echo $FZF_DIRECTION-match'

Customizing the look

Gutter

To make the mode visually distinct, the gutter column is rendered in a dashed
line using ▖ character. But you can customize it with the --gutter-raw CHAR
option.

# Use a thinner gutter instead of the default dashed line
fzf --bind alt-r:toggle-raw --gutter-raw ▎

Color and style of non-matching items

Non-matching items are displayed in a dimmed color by default, but you can
change it with the --color nomatch:... option.

fzf --raw --color nomatch:red
fzf --raw --color nomatch:red:dim
fzf --raw --color nomatch:red:dim:strikethrough
fzf --raw --color nomatch:red:dim:strikethrough:italic

For colored input, dimming alone may not be enough, and you may prefer to remove
colors entirely. For that case, a new special style attribute strip has been
added.

fd --color always | fzf --ansi --raw --color nomatch:dim:strip:strikethrough

Conditional actions for raw mode

You may want to perform different actions depending on whether the current item
is a match or not. For that, fzf now exports $FZF_RAW environment variable.

It's:

• Undefined if raw mode is disabled
• 1 if the current item is a match
• 0 otherwise

# Do not allow selecting non-matching items
fzf --raw --bind 'enter:transform:[[ ${FZF_RAW-1} = 1 ]] && echo accept || echo bell'

Leveraging raw mode in shell integration

The CTRL-R binding (command history) now lets you toggle raw mode with ALT-R.

2. Style changes

The screenshot on the right shows the updated gutter style:

This version includes a few minor updates to fzf's classic visual style:

• The gutter column is now narrower, rendered with the left-half block character (▌).
• Markers no longer use background colors.
• The --color base16 theme (alias: 16) has been updated for better compatibility with both dark and light themes.

3. --listen now supports Unix domain sockets

If an argument to --listen ends with .sock, fzf will listen on a Unix
domain socket at the specified path.

fzf --listen /tmp/fzf.sock --no-tmux
# GET
curl --unix-socket /tmp/fzf.sock http
# POST
curl --unix-socket /tmp/fzf.sock http -d up

Note that any existing file at the given path will be removed before creating
the socket, so avoid using an important file path.

4. Added options

--gutter CHAR

The gutter column can now be customized using --gutter CHAR and styled with
--color gutter:.... Examples:

# Right-aligned gutter
fzf --gutter '▐'
# Even thinner gutter
fzf --gutter '▎'
# Yellow checker pattern
fzf --gutter '▚' --color gutter:yellow
# Classic style
fzf --gutter ' ' --color gutter:reverse

--gutter-raw CHAR

As noted above, the --gutter-raw CHAR option was also added for customizing the gutter column in raw mode.

5. Added actions

The following actions were introduced to support working with raw mode:

6. Added environment variables

$FZF_DIRECTION

$FZF_DIRECTION is now exported to child processes, indicating the list direction of the current layout:

• up for the default layout
• down for reverse or reverse-list

This simplifies writing transform actions involving layout-dependent actions
like {up,down}-match, {up,down}-selected, and toggle+{up,down}.

fzf --raw --bind 'result:first+transform:[[ $FZF_RAW = 0 ]] && echo $FZF_DIRECTION-match'

$FZF_SOCK

When fzf is listening on a Unix domain socket using --listen, the path to the
socket is exported as $FZF_SOCK, analogous to $FZF_PORT for TCP sockets.

$FZF_RAW

As described above, $FZF_RAW is now exported to child processes in raw mode,
indicating whether the current item is a match (1) or not (0). It is not
defined when not in raw mode.

$FZF_CTRL_R_COMMAND

You can opt-out CTRL-R binding from the shell integration by setting
FZF_CTRL_R_COMMAND to an empty string. Setting it to any other value is not
supported and will result in a warning.

# Disable the CTRL-R binding from the shell integration
FZF_CTRL_R_COMMAND= eval "$(fzf --bash)"

7. Added key support for --bind

Pull request #3996 added support
for many additional keys for --bind option, such as ctrl-backspace.

8. Breaking changes

...

• Bug fixes and improvements
  • Fix incorrect truncation of --info-command with --info=inline-right (#4479)
  • [install] Support old uname in macOS (#4492)
  • [bash 3] Fix CTRL-T and ALT-C to preserve the last yank (#4496)
  • Do not unset FZF_DEFAULT_* variables when using winpty (#4497) (#4400)
  • Fix rendering of items with tabs when using a non-default ellipsis (#4505)
• This is the final release to support Windows 7.
  • Future versions will be built with the latest Go toolchain, which has dropped support for Windows 7.
  • Bug fixes will be backported to go-1.20 branch. You can build your own binary from it.

• Fixed incorrect $FZF_CLICK_HEADER_WORD and $FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_WORD when the header or footer contains ANSI escape sequences and tab characters.
• Fixed a bug where you cannot unset the default --nth using change-nth action.
• Fixed a highlighting bug when using --color fg:dim,nth:regular pattern over ANSI-colored items.

• Added click-footer event that is triggered when the footer section is clicked. When the event is triggered, the following environment variables are set:
  • $FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_COLUMN - clicked column (1-based)
  • $FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_LINE - clicked line (1-based)
  • $FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_WORD - the word under the cursor

  fzf --footer $'[Edit] [View]\n[Copy to clipboard]' \
      --with-shell 'bash -c' \
      --bind 'click-footer:transform:
        [[ $FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_WORD =~ Edit ]] && echo "execute:vim \{}"
        [[ $FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_WORD =~ View ]] && echo "execute:view \{}"
        (( FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_LINE == 2 )) && (( FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_COLUMN < 20 )) &&
            echo "execute-silent(echo -n \{} | pbcopy)+bell"
      '

• Added trigger(...) action that triggers events bound to another key or event.

  # You can click on each key name to trigger the actions bound to that key
  fzf --footer 'Ctrl-E: Edit / Ctrl-V: View / Ctrl-Y: Copy to clipboard' \
      --with-shell 'bash -c' \
      --bind 'ctrl-e:execute:vim {}' \
      --bind 'ctrl-v:execute:view {}' \
      --bind 'ctrl-y:execute-silent(echo -n {} | pbcopy)+bell' \
      --bind 'click-footer:transform:
        [[ $FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_WORD =~ Ctrl ]] && echo "trigger(${FZF_CLICK_FOOTER_WORD%:})"
      '

  • You can specify a series of keys and events

    fzf --bind 'a:up,b:trigger(a,a,a)'

• Added support for {*n} and {*nf} placeholder.
  • {*n} evaluates to the zero-based ordinal index of all matched items.
  • {*nf} evaluates to the temporary file containing that.
• Bug fixes and improvements
  • [neovim] Fixed margin background color when &winborder is used (#4453)
  • Fixed rendering error when hiding a preview window without border (#4465)
  • fix(shell): check for mawk existence before version check (#4468)
    • Thanks to @LangLangBart and @akinomyoga
  • Fixed --no-header-lines-border behavior (08027e7)

• Added multi event that is triggered when the multi-selection has changed.

  fzf --multi \
      --bind 'ctrl-a:select-all,ctrl-d:deselect-all' \
      --bind 'multi:transform-footer:(( FZF_SELECT_COUNT )) && echo "Selected $FZF_SELECT_COUNT item(s)"'

• Halfwidth and fullwidth alphanumeric and punctuation characters are now internally normalized to their ASCII equivalents to allow matching with ASCII queries.

  echo ＡＢＣ| fzf -q abc

• Renamed clear-selection action to clear-multi for consistency.
  • clear-selection remains supported as an alias for backward compatibility.
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug that could cause fzf to abort due to incorrect update ordering.
  • Fixed a bug where some multi-selections were lost when using exclude or change-nth.

Release highlights: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/releases/0.63.0/

• Added footer. The default border style for footer is line, which draws a single separator line.

  fzf --reverse --footer "fzf: friend zone forever"

  • Options
    • --footer[=STRING]
    • --footer-border[=STYLE]
    • --footer-label=LABEL
    • --footer-label-pos=COL[:bottom]
  • Colors
    • footer
    • footer-bg
    • footer-border
    • footer-label
  • Actions
    • change-footer
    • transform-footer
    • bg-transform-footer
    • change-footer-label
    • transform-footer-label
    • bg-transform-footer-label
• line border style is now allowed for all types of border except for --list-border.

  fzf --height 50% --style full:line --preview 'cat {}' \
      --bind 'focus:bg-transform-header(file {})+bg-transform-footer(wc {})'

• Added {*} placeholder flag that evaluates to all matched items.

  seq 10000 | fzf --preview "awk '{sum += \$1} END {print sum}' {*f}"

  • Use this with caution, as it can make fzf sluggish for large lists.
• Added asynchronous transform actions with bg- prefix that run asynchronously in the background, along with bg-cancel action to cancel currently running bg-transform actions.

  # Implement popup that disappears after 1 second
  #   * Use footer as the popup
  #   * Use `bell` to ring the terminal bell
  #   * Use `bg-transform-footer` to clear the footer after 1 second
  #   * Use `bg-cancel` to cancel currently running background transform actions
  fzf --multi --list-border \
      --bind 'enter:execute-silent(echo -n {+} | pbcopy)+bell' \
      --bind 'enter:+transform-footer(echo Copied {} to clipboard)' \
      --bind 'enter:+bg-cancel+bg-transform-footer(sleep 1)'
  # It's okay for the commands to take a little while because they run in the background
  GETTER='curl -s https://metaphorpsum.com/sentences/1'
  fzf --style full --border --preview : \
      --bind "focus:bg-transform-header:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-footer:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-border-label:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-preview-label:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-input-label:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-list-label:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-header-label:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-footer-label:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-ghost:$GETTER" \
      --bind "focus:+bg-transform-prompt:$GETTER"

• Added support for full-line background color in the list section

  for i in $(seq 16 255); do
    echo -e "\x1b[48;5;${i}m\x1b[0Khello"
  done | fzf --ansi

• SSH completion enhancements by @akinomyoga
• Bug fixes and improvements

• Relaxed the --color option syntax to allow whitespace-separated entries (in addition to commas), making multi-line definitions easier to write and read

  # seoul256-light
  fzf --style full --color='
    fg:#616161 fg+:#616161
    bg:#ffffff bg+:#e9e9e9 alt-bg:#f1f1f1
    hl:#719872 hl+:#719899
    pointer:#e12672 marker:#e17899
    header:#719872
    spinner:#719899 info:#727100
    prompt:#0099bd query:#616161
    border:#e1e1e1
  '

• Added alt-bg color to create striped lines to visually separate rows

  fzf --color bg:237,alt-bg:238,current-bg:236 --highlight-line
  declare -f | perl -0777 -pe 's/^}\n/}\0/gm' |
    bat --plain --language bash --color always |
    fzf --read0 --ansi --reverse --multi \
        --color bg:237,alt-bg:238,current-bg:236 --highlight-line

• [fish] Improvements in CTRL-R binding (@bitraid)
  • You can trigger CTRL-R in the middle of a command to insert the selected item
  • You can delete history items with SHIFT-DEL
• Bug fixes and improvements
  • Fixed unnecessary 100ms delay after reload (#4364)
  • Fixed selected-bg not applied to colored items (#4372)

Screenshot

• Reverted #4351 as it caused tmux run-shell 'fzf --tmux' to fail (#4559 #4560)
• More environment variables for child processes (#4356)

• Fixed panic when using header border without pointer/marker (@phanen)
• Fixed --tmux option when already inside a tmux popup (@peikk0)
• Bug fixes and improvements in CTRL-T binding of fish (#4334) (@bitraid)
• Added --no-tty-default option to make fzf search for the current TTY device instead of defaulting to /dev/tty (#4242)

• Disable bracketed-paste mode on exit. This fixes issue where pasting breaks after running fzf on old bash versions that don't support the mode.