ERerichdongubler·Nov 21, 2017Submission
2 points · Open discussionjhawthorn
fzy
C2017–2026
jhawthorn / fzy
fzy
:mag: A simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal
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16Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.3KGitHub stars
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:mag: A simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesI put "set editing-mode vi" in my ~/.inputrc to enable basic vi keyboard shortcuts in readline-based programs like bash.
If I'm using bash on a machine I don't control, I can type "set -o vi" at the bash prompt to get the same thing temporarily, and that's usually the first thing I type.
I also like to use rlwrap[1] to get readline editing and command history on terminal apps that aren't readline aware and don't have history of their own.
Most of the time, though I spend in zsh, which is not readline-based but has its own readline-like capabilities. There I have ^R bound to reverse history search, and ^E to edit the current line in my $EDITOR.
In addition to this, I use fzy[2] (which I prefer over fzf[3]) to do fuzzy searches over my shell history with something like:
history 0 | perl -p -E's/^\s*\S+\s*//' | sort -u | fzy --lines=$LINE
Read the rest
If you like fzf you might be interested in fzy:
https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
In FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than ever beforeAlso check out fzy:
https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
In Vim after 15 Yearsfzy: a fast, simple fuzzy text selector with an advanced scoring algorithm
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