'-m' in the fzf/faint pop-up window about faint HOT 18 OPEN

Have you tried the latest version?

from faint.

Yes.. I Just did a git pull .. and it said "Already up to date" then did a "sudo make install" . The above issue still exists on my system.

from faint.

Let me have a look at your faint-operate and faint files.

from faint.

Here you go ..

faint+faint-operate.zip

from faint.

Everything looks fine there.
I've tried to reproduce the issue but haven't been able to do so.
I will see what I can do about this.
In the mean time, try removing the -m flag from the faint file and see if it helps or not.
And also try running find . -maxdepth 1 on your shell and see if you get any entry named -m on the standard output or not.

from faint.

Looks like the problem is with --header ' ' [ ie. being empty somehow.. ]

I changed the line 27 to look like :

 25 FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="\
 26    $FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS
 27    --reverse --border --no-info --margin 15%,30% --no-color -m --cycle --header '-----'
 28    --bind \"$KEY_LAUNCH:reload(faint-list -l {})+clear-query+top\"
 29    --bind \"$KEY_OPERATE:execute(faint-operate {+})+reload(faint-list -r)+clear-query+top\"
 30    --bind \"$KEY_BOOKMARK:execute(faint-bookmarks)+reload(faint-list -r)+clear-query+top\"
 31    --bind \"$KEY_BACK:reload(faint-list -b)+clear-query+top\"
 32    --bind \"$KEY_QUIT:cancel\"
 33    --bind \"$KEY_SHELL:execute(kill -35 $$)+abort\"
 34    --bind \"$KEY_EDIT:execute(faint-launch -e {})+clear-query+top\"
 35    --bind \"$KEY_MARK_ALL:toggle-all\"
 36    --bind \"$KEY_MARK_DOWN:toggle-down\"
 37    --bind \"$KEY_MARK_UP:toggle-up\"
 38    --bind \"$KEY_UP:up\"
 39    --bind \"$KEY_DOWN:down\"
 40    --bind \"$KEY_REFRESH:reload(faint-list -r)\"
 41    "
 42 export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS

Now I get this
https://imgur.com/GaeH2fL.png
which is kinda acceptable instead of an "empty" string being the header (which seems to be causing the issue)

PS :
I can't seem to put anything else (ie. space etc.) other than a visible character to make it to work with the --header option. So I chose '------' as a separator/header . Whether it is an Escaping of Character(s)/String(s) issue, I don't know.

from faint.

And also try running find . -maxdepth 1 on your shell and see if you get any entry named -m on the standard output or not.

I didn't get any entry name -m in the output.

from faint.

If I run fzf with the same "FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS" in faint (ie. --header '' ) in the terminal.

$ /usr/bin/fzf --reverse --border --no-info --margin 15%,30% --no-color -m --cycle --header ''

It shows up as an empty line as header in the fzf-popup window, like it is supposed to.

from faint.

I see. In that case, replace the single quotes with double quotes and escape them using backslashes.
It's gonna look like this --header \"\".
I'm gonna push with this on the next commit so that you don't have to worry about compatibility with the new versions.

from faint.

--header \"\"

I tried that option earlier too.. But then I was getting this error, from the very next line in "faint" file:

$faint
unknown option: ;:reload(faint-list -l {})+clear-query+top

 27    --reverse --border --no-info --margin 15%,30% --no-color -m --cycle --header \"\"
 28    --bind \"$KEY_LAUNCH:reload(faint-list -l {})+clear-query+top\"

from faint.

Okay then try removing the export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS line altogether and put the export command before the FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS variable. It's gonna look like this...

export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="\
   $FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS
   --reverse --border --no-info --margin 15%,30% --no-color --header ''
...
...
...

from faint.

Okay then try removing the export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS line altogether and put the export command before the FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS variable. It's gonna look like this...

export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="\
   $FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS
   --reverse --border --no-info --margin 15%,30% --no-color --header ''
...
...
...

I am getting the same error as before.

$faint
unknown option: ;:reload(faint-list -l {})+clear-query+top

 $ fzf --version 
0.20.0

from faint.

Let me have a look at your faint-config file

from faint.

Here you go ..
faint-config.zip

from faint.

I think your back and launch keys are causing the issue.
Try a few things like double quoting, no quoting and escaping to see what works for you.
Fingers crossed.
P.S.: Try pulling down the new version to see if it helps or not.

from faint.

Thanks for all your help. I am happy with making the header '---' to avoid the issue, for now. May be its an issue with my version of fzf or my setup.

from faint.

You better not give up on me man! lol.
We'll figure this out. 🙂

from faint.

Definitely not!. Sure thing..

from faint.