Zsh Quiet-Accept-Line

Zsh plugin is to enable to run typed zsh command without triggering a new prompt and saving the query to the history

Usage

This plugins define 3 zle widgets:

• quiet-accept-line bound to C-x RET/C-x C-m: run the current typed command, without output a new prompt
• silent-accept-line bound to C-x C-j: run the current typed command, without output a new prompt. output wil be suppressed
• last-quiet-accept-line bound to C-x C-k: restore to the prompt the last command that was run with `quiet/silent-accept-line``

Optionaly status code of the quietly runned command can be display. To do so, set ZLE_QAL_STATUS_DISPLAY to true, on or yes. (QAL stands for Quiet Accept Line)

Installation

Just source quiet-accept-line content, or if you use a plugin manager set adrieankhisbe/zsh-quiet-accept-line as plugin:

• for antigen, just add zsh-quiet-accept-line to your bundles as adrieankhisbe/zsh-quiet-accept-line antigen bundle adrieankhisbe/zsh-quiet-accept-line
• for zplug, add zplug "adrieankhisbe/zsh-quiet-accept-line"

Configuration

Keys can be configured based on the following variables: ZLE_QAL_QUIET_KEY, ZLE_QAL_SILENT_KEY, and ZLE_QAL_LAST_KEY. (default being ^X^M, ^X^J and ^X^K)

Output of the status code can be customized with the following variable:

• ZLE_QAL_STATUS_DURATION: how long status is displayed, blocking the prompt (default 0.5s)
• ZLE_QAL_STATUS_OK: what is output for successful command (default green ✔ with prompt color escape %{%})
• ZLE_QAL_STATUS_KO: what is output for failing command (default red ✖ with prompt color escape %{%}) note that status is saved to ZLE_QAL_STATUS variable

About

This plugin was driven by the need to improve tmux-resurrect zsh history saving that was poluting terminal with fc commands. After some research I end up on the following stack overflow question, that inspired the initial implementation.