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I don't think this article goes far enough into what a game-changer fzf can be. Combined with some clever "preview" functions, and a pop-up terminal function (
by jrm4 4y ago
I don't think this article goes far enough into what a game-changer fzf can be.
Combined with some clever "preview" functions, and a pop-up terminal function (which, that part is admittedly harder than it ought to be) it can be an across the board a better general purpose script menu creator than most command line AND GUI tools, namely due to
- instant previews AND
- the ability to either arrow up and down OR fuzzy type what you want.
For me, it renders, e.g. "select in" and "case" functions in Bash completely obsolete. At any time, if I want quick selection of anything that can be a list, my first thought is, can I do this with fzf?
- rakoo 4y agoI have ~200 lines of scripts that use fzf and mblaze (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) as the ui for my very own mua. It's all Unixy and lovely. I should write a page about that
- rustyminnow 4y agoYes please! Even just posting some of the scripts somewhere would be awesome. I'm always looking for better ways to handle email. Mblaze seems great, but I've never managed to quite tap into it's obvious power.
- grimgrin 4y agoagreed. preview rips i was confused how to adjust the width and figured it out, here’s where i asked, learned, and shared my figlet script fzfont https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/discussions/3211 https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/discussions/3211 https://asciinema.org/a/grALSk2M1tkVPiiyrAGCbdX5J https://asciinema.org/a/grALSk2M1tkVPiiyrAGCbdX5J (without width adjustment iirc)