wezterm/docs/config/lua/keyassignment/QuickSelectArgs.md

QuickSelectArgs

Since: 20220101-133340-7edc5b5a

Activates Quick Select Mode but with the option to override the global configuration.

This example shows how to pop up a quick select that is scoped solely to a very basic http regex; it will only match those regexes regardless of the default or the quick_select_patterns configuration:

local wezterm = require 'wezterm'

return {
  keys = {
    {key="P", mods="CTRL",
     action=wezterm.action{QuickSelectArgs={
       patterns={
          "https?://\\S+"
       },
     }}
   },
  },
}

The QuickSelectArgs struct allows for the following fields:

• patterns - if present, completely overrides the normal set of patterns and uses only the patterns specified
• alphabet - if present, this alphabet is used instead of quick_select_alphabet
• action - if present, this key assignment action is performed as if by window:perform_action when an item is selected. The normal clipboard action is NOT performed in this case.
• label - if present, replaces the string "copy" that is shown at the bottom of the overlay; you can use this to indicate which action will happen if you are using action.

Here's an example that shows how to trigger some lua code to operate on the quick-selected text, instead of copying it to the clipboard. Here, we open the selected URL using the web browser:

local wezterm = require 'wezterm'

return {
  keys = {
    {key="P", mods="CTRL",
     action=wezterm.action{QuickSelectArgs={
       label = "open url",
       patterns={
          "https?://\\S+"
       },
       action = wezterm.action_callback(function(window, pane)
          local url = window:get_selection_text_for_pane(pane)
          wezterm.log_info("opening: " .. url)
          wezterm.open_with(url)
       end)
     }}
   },
  },
}

See also wezterm.open_with.