Use fzf to search through "cheatsheets" of useful commands.
This can be used as a plugin, so just
git clone https://github.com/james-w/fzf-cheatsheets ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/fzf-cheatsheets
Clone the repo somewhere, and then in your .zshrc add
FZF_CHEATSHEETS_DIR=<directory where you cloned this repo>
export PATH="$PATH:${FZF_CHEATSHEETS_DIR}/bin"
source "${FZF_CHEATSHEETS_DIR}/shell/fzf-cheatsheets.zsh
Clone the repo somewhere, and then in your .bashrc add
FZF_CHEATSHEETS_DIR=<directory where you cloned this repo>
export PATH="$PATH:${FZF_CHEATSHEETS_DIR}/bin"
source "${FZF_CHEATSHEETS_DIR}/shell/fzf-cheatsheets.bash"
The default binding is Ctrl-x Ctrl-p (i.e. hit one then the other).
You will be prompted to select the cheatsheet to use, and then to select the command that you want.
Hitting Enter at the command listing will place that command in to your
prompt for you to change or execute.
Hitting Ctrl-e will open your editor to edit the command. There
will be comments to help you understand what the command does, and you
can leave those there. Once you are happy then quit your editor and
your command line will contain the command ready to run.
If you have some text in your prompt already then that will be used to pre-filter the options.
The first word in the command line will select the cheatsheet, so if you have
> git
when you activate the plugin it will immediately offer you the commands from
the cheatsheet for git.
If you have
> git push
when you activate the plugin it will select the git cheatsheet, and put
push as the query in the command selector, hopefully taking you to the
commands that you are interested in. You can amend the query however you like
at this point.
You can also use the command directly if you prefer:
fzf-cheatsheets
fzf-cheatsheets git
In this case the command will be executed when you have finished, it won't be added to your command line.
You can add your own cheatsheets.
You can set CHEATSHEETS_DIR environment variable to point to a set of
cheatsheet files, or you can send PRs here.
The files should be named after the command that they should be used for.
The cheatsheet files are pretty simple, with a command per line.
git status
Comments can be added after the command
git status # Shows the status of the repo
For more complex commands you can add comments on following lines to expand further.
git status # Shows the status of the repo
# Here is some more information
Everything up to the next command will be considered comments for that command.
You can also use the awesome-cheatsheets repo directly, though the formatting is not consistent there and so the help messages will be less useful.
Simply checkout that repo somewhere:
git clone git@github.com:LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets.git path/to/awesome-cheatsheets
and point your FZF_CHEATSHEETS_DIR to that directory in your zshrc or
bashrc:
FZF_CHEATSHEETS_DIR=path/to/awesome-cheatsheets
Reddit user u/techAndLanguage suggested the idea
Some of the cheatsheets started from awesome-cheatsheets