Well, I had thought about using zenity so using fzf is not a big problem. I didn't even know it existed, so I learned a new one.
Thank you. -- Luciano ES >> ************************** On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:11:50 +0000, fish-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:57:32 +0200 > From: Tassilo Horn > Subject: Re: [Fish-users] PS3 and select? > > Luciano ES writes: > > Hi Luciano, > > > I am porting an old shell script to fish and just ran into this nice > > structure: > > > > --------------------------------- > > PS3="Choose target: " > > select TARGET in option1 option2 option3 quit > > do > > ... > > done > > --------------------------------- > > > > Is there anything similar in fish? > > No, I think, see https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/4036. > > But you can do something like that using some other external command > like fzf, e.g.: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > set -l result (echo "foo > bar > baz" | fzf --prompt "Choose wisely: ") > echo $result # either foo, bar, or baz > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Of course, now your script relies on fish *and* fzf (or whatever other > external command you might want to use as selection UI). > > Bye, > Tassilo _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
