IGIggleSniggle·Jul 27, 2020
fzf has a preview pane option. Typical OOTB usage is to use this to cat the output of the currently hovered item in your list. But fzf can fuzzy-find on any list, not just file lists, and use the preview pane to display anything based on your selected inputs. One very nice demonstration of this is [git-fuzzy](https://github.com/bigH/git-fuzzy)
The hardest part about leveraging the power of fzf is getting input into your --preview argument in the middle of some piped process. But that's also where it's true power becomes fully evident.
awk users have long had similar powers. And indeed you might find awk useful for reorganizing record separators in a pipe to fzf. But fzf is brilliant because it "just works" for 90% of cases.
I think we're probably going to see people sharing some pretty incredible workflows with fzf in the next few years.
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Something about being able to stick it in the middle of a Unix pipe just makes it really really special; it's compose-able!