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| author | Tuowen Zhao <ztuowen@gmail.com> | 2026-01-04 22:47:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Tuowen Zhao <ztuowen@gmail.com> | 2026-01-04 22:47:54 -0800 |
| commit | 2aa4cb7a52b28722816ecfd55f3b06293332c55c (patch) | |
| tree | f02a9f3d59d109c70caf932a24e43368994e0e8c /plugins/alias-finder | |
| parent | 7e951c254e779ff0620537cf43ca69dd878387b4 (diff) | |
| parent | d23d3ea69fdb839088e6e5589557cce77b34aaf8 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | plugins/alias-finder/alias-finder.plugin.zsh | 14 |
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diff --git a/plugins/alias-finder/README.md b/plugins/alias-finder/README.md index 6c87c723a..b24f8d4ac 100644 --- a/plugins/alias-finder/README.md +++ b/plugins/alias-finder/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This plugin searches the defined aliases and outputs any that match the command inputted. This makes learning new aliases easier. -## Usage +## Setup To use it, add `alias-finder` to the `plugins` array of your zshrc file: ``` @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ plugins=(... alias-finder) To enable it for every single command, set zstyle in your `~/.zshrc`. +If the user has installed `rg`([ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)), it will be used because it's faster. Otherwise, it will use the `grep` command. + ```zsh # ~/.zshrc @@ -22,6 +24,41 @@ zstyle ':omz:plugins:alias-finder' cheaper yes # disabled by default As you can see, options are also available with zstyle. +## Usage + +When you execute a command alias finder will look at your defined aliases and suggest shorter aliases you could have used, for example: + +Running the un-aliased `git status` command: +```sh +╭─tim@fox ~/repo/gitopolis ‹main› +╰─$ git status + +gst='git status' # <=== shorter suggestion from alias-finder + +On branch main +Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/main'. +nothing to commit, working tree clean +``` + +Running a shorter `git st` alias from `.gitconfig` that it suggested : +```sh +╭─tim@fox ~/repo/gitopolis ‹main› +╰─$ git st +gs='git st' # <=== shorter suggestion from alias-finder +## main...origin/main +``` + +Running the shortest `gs` shell alias that it found: +```sh +╭─tim@fox ~/repo/gitopolis ‹main› +╰─$ gs + # <=== no suggestions alias-finder because this is the shortest +## main...origin/main +``` + + + + ### Options > In order to clarify, let's say `alias a=abc` has source 'abc' and destination 'a'. diff --git a/plugins/alias-finder/alias-finder.plugin.zsh b/plugins/alias-finder/alias-finder.plugin.zsh index 5fdfbc835..6f24c7089 100644 --- a/plugins/alias-finder/alias-finder.plugin.zsh +++ b/plugins/alias-finder/alias-finder.plugin.zsh @@ -36,14 +36,22 @@ alias-finder() { # make filter to find only shorter results than current cmd if [[ $cheaper == true ]]; then cmdLen=$(echo -n "$cmd" | wc -c) - filter="^'{0,1}.{0,$((cmdLen - 1))}=" + if [[ $cmdLen -le 1 ]]; then + return + fi + + filter="^'?.{1,$((cmdLen - 1))}'?=" # some aliases is surrounded by single quotes fi - alias | grep -E "$filter" | grep -E "=$finder" + if (( $+commands[rg] )); then + alias | rg "$filter" | rg "=$finder" + else + alias | grep -E "$filter" | grep -E "=$finder" + fi if [[ $exact == true ]]; then break # because exact case is only one - elif [[ $longer = true ]]; then + elif [[ $longer == true ]]; then break # because above grep command already found every longer aliases during first cycle fi |
