fzf live REPL
Dev tools
command line fuzzy finder
SHOW HN2019
190points
27comments
#205of 2,195 in 2019
Top 10%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Execution: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool idea and useful live previews
From 2 comments
This is really cool. I didn't realize --preview could take something as complex as this.
scriptdevil on HNThe live previews were great, but it took absolutely forever for the command to get typed out before it moved onto the execution! I might suggest speeding up the typing, or just…
CaptainMarvel on HN
Useful fzf tips and related tools shared
From 2 comments
Very cool. Relevant: https://github.com/akavel/up
akkartik on HNI obtain a similar thing by adding this snippet to my .zshrc[0]. Notice I use bat[1] and exa[2] as alternative to cat and ls. This is the result:…
alien1993 on HN
Objections
Running commands on every keystroke is dangerous
From 2 comments
This looks cool, though running e.g. arbitrary ruby scripts seems kinda dangerous when it executes on every character instead of only when you ask it to.
eridius on HNAnd many other things besides Ruby scripts
colordrops on HN
Typing out the command before execution is too slow
From 1 comment
The live previews were great, but it took absolutely forever for the command to get typed out before it moved onto the execution! I might suggest speeding up the typing, or just…
CaptainMarvel on HN
Requests
Add a security check to block destructive commands
From 1 comment
My exact concern with this. For now I can only recommend using it with read-only commands and not pasting anything into it that you do not fully understand. Probably will add…
pawelduda on HN
Add a short intro to fzf in the post
From 1 comment
Thank you for sharing! I had no idea what fzf was when I read your post at first, so I was confused. Maybe just a quick intro sentence (with a link) to help set some context.…
nlh on HN
Alternatives named
up (akavel)
From 2 comments
Very cool. Relevant: https://github.com/akavel/up
akkartik on HN<shameless-plug> You may also like to have a look at https://github.com/akavel/up as an alternative. It now executes the command only after Enter is pressed (though originally I…
akavel on HN
fzf.vim
From 2 comments
The fzf.vim[0] plugin offers similar capability in vim to give you this: https://asciinema.org/a/171913 [0]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim
yankcrime on HNIn a familiar fashion, if you use fzf.vim along with ripgrep you can run :Rg without any arguments and get a real time filter on finding any text within your project. Normally…
nickjj on HN