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They're all external plugins, meaning that they're "inventing the wheel" as much as FZF is.
by soraminazuki 2y ago
They're all external plugins, meaning that they're "inventing the wheel" as much as FZF is.
- lloeki 2y agoAlso one of fzf major yet non obvious feature is that you can use fzf in many places, which means that the fuzzy search algorithm and behaviour is exactly the same whether I search for shell history or project files in vim or commit messages or... There's nothing more annoying than having two fuzzy search implementations that behave mostly the same except in this or that case which subtly breaks your implicit mental model of it. Consistency is underrated.
- EasyMark 2y agoRight, and fzf is usable across all major shells, which is a big plus. For example I use zsh at home, but at work I'm forced to use bash for everything, but it works there just the same. Plus you can bend it to other purposes than just a fancy history lookup