exa VS skim

bat especially was a revelation. I don't think I'll ever use cat again if I can help it. I recently found exa[1] which was a bit too colorful for my taste but very nice too

[1] https://github.com/ogham/exa

exa

Over time, I have replaced more and more the standard tools with alternative ones. Instead of find, I use fd and fzf, for example. Instead of grep I use ripgrep. Or exa instead of ls. And I use Mercurial instead of Git.

Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls\ (98 comments)

https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/367#issuecomment-4285909...

ls taking seconds and exa taking 13 minutes :(

Their website says it's as fast as ls because they do things in parallel but it doesn't seem to actually be as fast as ls in small or large usage.

I'd also say 200ms -> 1.2 seconds is very noticable.

There's also skim! Which is an fzf-like implemented in rust. Last time I tested them it was about 10 times faster than fzf. That was a while ago though.

The fuzzy finder is handled by the awesome skim crate.

Tools like skim work great with others like fd to provide additional functionality when it comes to locating files and filtering through search results. I also use skim's sk command pretty heavily in other scripts when interactivity is required.

Alt to find: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd and fzf https://github.com/lotabout/skim

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skim: super fast file finding, fantastic in Vim (fzf alt)

Why use fzf when you can use skim! It was way faster last time I tested it.

Skim. It can also act as a standalone command like fzf.

I think there is an attempt to write something similar to fzf in rust GitHub - lotabout/skim: Fuzzy Finder in rust!. See if you'll have better luck with that.