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I've installed fzf on debian 11 (bullseye). When I type in ctrl-r to trigger a history search, nothing happens. Works fine on my mac. I'm using zsh.
UPDATE: tried adding bindkey '^r' fzf-history-widget to .zshrc but I just get a "no such widget" error.
fzf --version reports 0.24 (devel)
OK, found the answer at https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/fzf which says to refer to README file:
Bash
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Append this line to ~/.bashrc to enable fzf keybindings for Bash:
source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/key-bindings.bash
Append this line to ~/.bashrc to enable fuzzy auto-completion for Bash:
source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/completion.bash
Zsh
===
Append this line to ~/.zshrc to enable fzf keybindings for Zsh:
source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/key-bindings.zsh
Append this line to ~/.zshrc to enable fuzzy auto-completion for Zsh:
source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/completion.zsh
Fish
====
Issue the following commands to enable fzf keybindings for Fish:
mkdir -p ~/.config/fish/functions/
echo fzf_key_bindings > ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_user_key_bindings.fish
Vim
===
The straightforward way to use fzf.vim is appending this line to your vimrc:
source /usr/share/doc/fzf/examples/fzf.vim
fish_user_key_bindings.fish should contain the function, as declared here: github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/shell/key-bindings.fish
Mar 20, 2022 at 18:15
This plugin also does the trick either via zinit or oh-my-zsh
https://github.com/joshskidmore/zsh-fzf-history-search
This might not be relevant to this stack exchange, but on an M1 mac, I found the key-bindings.zsh file in: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fzf/0.36.0/shell/key-bindings.zsh.
By adding this file to my .zshrc I was able to get Ctrl+r working with fzf.
