mcfly VS fzf

Compare mcfly vs fzf and see what are their differences.

mcfly

Fly through your shell history. Great Scott! (by cantino)

fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder (by junegunn)
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mcfly fzf
49 405
6,545 59,462
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7.2 9.5
26 days ago 5 days ago
Rust Go
MIT License MIT License
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mcfly

Posts with mentions or reviews of mcfly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.

fzf

Posts with mentions or reviews of fzf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.
  • pyfzf : Python Fuzzy Finder
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2024
    fzf : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
  • Command Line Fuzzy Search
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
  • So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024
    Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig.

    "git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    "git gone" removes local branches that don't exist on the remote.

    "git root" prints out the root of the repo. You can alias it to "cd $(git root)", and zip back to the repo root from a deep directory structure. This one is less useful now for me since I started using zoxide to jump around. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

  • Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
    > my history is so noisy I had to find another way

    The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2].

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax

    [2]: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...

  • Z – Jump Around
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024
    You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.

    I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.

    ¹ https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

    ² https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

  • alacritty-themes not working any more!!!
    6 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2024
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  • Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues

    [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    [2] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

  • Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
    You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...

  • Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023
  • A Practical Guide to fzf: Vim Integration
    2 projects | /r/commandline | 29 Nov 2023
    There are two plugins allowing us to use fzf in Vim: the native fzf plugin directly installed with fzf, and fzf.vim. The second plugin is built on the first one.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mcfly and fzf you can also consider the following projects:

atuin - ✨ Magical shell history

peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool

zsh-histdb - A slightly better history for zsh

zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

antigen - The plugin manager for zsh.

z - z - jump around

modern-unix - A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!