From eb82349ac542750e34336498b57bcad0a97b9902 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: scbj <scbj@zhaw.ch>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:12:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] (scripts) added reasonable behaviour for `escape` to fzf
 script

---
 scripts/fzf-bash-history.sh | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/fzf-bash-history.sh b/scripts/fzf-bash-history.sh
index 02a6def..e795e16 100644
--- a/scripts/fzf-bash-history.sh
+++ b/scripts/fzf-bash-history.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ function __search-history {
     current_line="${READLINE_LINE}"
     command=($(fc -lnr 1 | fzf --scheme=history --tmux --expect=tab,right -q "${current_line}"))
 
+    # restore readline on `escape`
+    if [[ -z "${command}" ]]; then
+        READLINE_LINE="${current_line}"
+        READLINE_POINT=$((0 + ${#current_line}))
+        return 0
+    fi
+
     # print command to terminal for editting
     if [[ ${command[0]} = "tab" || ${command[0]} = "right" ]]; then
         edit="true"