Discussion on: Passing a parameter to a zsh keyboard-shortcut

[jesús gollonet]

Nice! I've been using and loving simple bindkey for a few shortcuts in my zsh/tmux/vim setup.

I didn't know about the $BUFFER variable! It will come in handy for a problem i didn't know how to solve: Often times halfway through typing a command I think "this would be better ran in its own tmux pane", but then I would have to go to the beginning of the command and add the tmux split-window etc. Too much to bother. Having a shortcut I can press after finishing typing the command is much more ergonomic. Thanks for sharing!

[riscie]

Thats a really nice usecase! Thank you too for sharing it.

[jesús gollonet]

btw, the code in your example doesn't display any output for me. The branch gets created but I can't see the output from echo or git checkout. After some googling I suspect it might have to do with using a multiline prompt.

for some reason that I don't fully understand, adding a newline after git checkout makes it display for me:

function featbranch() {
    branch_name=$BUFFER
    zle backward-kill-line
    echo "git checkout -b feat/$branch_name"
    git checkout -b "feat/${branch_name}"
    echo "\n" #¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    zle reset-prompt
    zle redisplay
}

[riscie]

Thanks for the follow up!

    echo "\n" #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

🤷‍♂️😂