Release highlights: https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/releases/0.74.0/

• On tmux 3.7 or above, --popup starts fzf in a floating pane instead of a popup (#4850)
  • Unlike a popup, a floating pane is not modal; you can switch to other panes and windows while fzf is running, move and resize the pane with the mouse, zoom it to fullscreen, and use copy-mode in it
  • A floating pane always has a native border, which is what makes the pane movable and resizable, so border-native is implied
  • A popup is used instead when a border style is explicitly specified with --border, so that the fzf-drawn border is the only border shown (none and line are treated as no border)

    fzf --popup --border
    

  • --border-label is set as the title of the floating pane, and is displayed on the border if pane-border-status is enabled in tmux

    fzf --popup --border-label ' fzf '
    

• On Zellij, --popup uses the native border by default, consistent with tmux, so that the pane can be moved and resized with the mouse; fzf draws its own border when a border style is explicitly specified with --border
  • --border-label is set as the name of the pane, displayed on the native border
• Added result-final event, a variant of result that is not triggered while the input stream is still open (#4835)
  • Use it for one-shot, per-query actions that would otherwise re-fire on every intermediate snapshot during loading

    # 'result' fires per intermediate snapshot (header keeps updating during load);
    # 'result-final' fires once after the stream closes (footer shows the final count)
    (seq 100; sleep 1; seq 100) | fzf --query 1 \
      --bind 'result:transform-header(echo result: $FZF_MATCH_COUNT),result-final:transform-footer(echo final: $FZF_MATCH_COUNT)'
    

• Added wait action to block subsequent actions until search completes (#4825)
  • Useful for chaining query-changing actions with motion actions to ensure operations on complete results

    # Wait for search to complete before moving to the best match
    fzf --bind 'start:change-query(foo)+wait+best'
    

  • The initial loading of the input is also considered a search in progress, so start:wait can be used to wait until the input is fully loaded

    # Move to the last item after the input is fully loaded
    (seq 1000; sleep 1; seq 1001 2000) | fzf --bind 'start:wait+last'
    

• Bound alt-left to backward-word and alt-right to forward-word by default (#4833)
• Bug fixes and improvements
  • Skip $FZF_CURRENT_ITEM export when the item is larger than 64 KB; a huge item can overflow ARG_MAX and break preview and other child commands with E2BIG (#4806)
  • transform and bg-transform now allow a bare put action in the output to insert the key that triggered the action

    # Insert the typed key ('a') into the query
    fzf --bind 'a:transform:echo put'
    

  • ALT-C in zsh no longer resolves symbolic links when changing the directory, consistent with the cd builtin (#4816) (@silverneko)
  • Fixed horizontal mouse wheel events being treated as vertical scrolling (#4848) (@jason5122)
  • Fixed bw theme not inheriting overridden colors
  • fish: CTRL-R now works when $fish_color_normal or $fish_color_comment is empty or invalid (#4831) (@bitraid)
  • Fixed empty-shell detection in the install script (#4813)
  • Fixed the install script writing nushell source lines into the config files of other shells (#4812)