fzf VS zsh-history-substring-search

bat is a modern replacement for cat with syntax highlighting and themes. I use it for a lot of things, but the coolest use of it that I have is to use it to preview files while fuzzy searching using fzf and opening that file in neovim.

The results are piped to fzf-tmux (ships with fzf), where I can fuzzy search for one or more directories

3. Fzf

I installed fzf just to get a short list of most fitting entries from history when I Ctrl+R

I really like using something like fuzzy search for menus like these. https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu is pretty cool in that it works both in a terminal, X11 and on Wayland, so if you want to do something graphical later you can easily migrate. There's also fzf and skim, which work similarly but are only for the terminal.

On the command line, I have been using fzf - in combination with fd - for quite some time now. I use it to search for directories, previous commands in the shell history and other search/filter related tasks. Luckily, there is also FZF for JavaScript, which is an unofficial port of fzf for the browser. We will use this module to power our search.

cd ~ sudo apt remove fzf git clone https://github.com/junegunn/fzf .fzf bash .fzf/install fzf --version

Fzf is another awesome tool that lets you do fuzzy search, and it's incredibly versatile.

Another way is to set HISTORY to a large number, say 10,000 or more, then install and use fzf. With fzf, you can quickly recall any command you have ever typed with a fuzzy search back through your voluminous command history.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf with custom settings and tweaks. Absolutely indispensable for the search in hoarded data.

zsh-history-substring-search: This is a clean-room implementation of the Fish shell's history search feature, where you can type in any part of any command from history and then press chosen keys, such as the UP and DOWN arrows, to cycle through matches.

In most shells, you can make use of Ctrl+R to perform backwards search through your history. After pressing Ctrl+R, you can type a substring you want to match for commands in your history. As you keep pressing it, you will cycle through the matches in your history. This can also be enabled with the UP/DOWN arrows in zsh.

That doesn't have the same behavior as fish. This plugin does: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

zsh-history-substring-search allows you to do the same thing in zsh

In that case, history substring search can come in handy.

if you're going to use a fork of zdharma's work, this one might be better https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search (maintained by a group)

history-substring-search 🥇 ⌛ - Needs to be loaded after zsh-syntax-highlighting, or they'll both break. You'll also need to bind keys to its functions, details are in the README.md.

On a similar note, zsh-history-substring-search has become something I look for everywhere.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

2. History substring search is a separate module: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search, which I assume oh-my-zsh configures