pure VS fzf

Compare pure vs fzf and see what are their differences.

fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder (by junegunn)
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pure

Posts with mentions or reviews of pure. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.
  • Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
    Beyond zprof (https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/zsh-profiling) not really I'm afraid. I did the majority of my zsh-prompt hacking 10 years ago and haven't thought about it since. That snippet could be from anywhere.

    You could peek at something like zprezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto or pure https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure for tips.

    Fetching git/hg/... info is always slow, so try and speed that up where you can (as to how to do that, uhh... I know my prompt has a dirty-state check nicked from pure for speed reasons). You can also cache any `asdf init zsh` or similar to a file and do the same "run in background" trick so the next shell will have any changes.

    The biggest improvement I can remember was dropping zprezto for my own much smaller config, I really did not need much comparatively. Mostly some git info and "good default" options. I use zgenom for a plugin manager but only have 3 plugins, probably I should just dump it and inline the plugins to avoid getting owned one day.

  • Config to make powerlevel10k look like Starship?
    1 project | /r/zsh | 21 Apr 2023
    Run p10k configure and choose Lean style. Pure style is inferior in all respects. It exists to make https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure users feel at home.
  • What is this terminal and how do I get it?
    2 projects | /r/vscode | 6 Apr 2023
  • Pure: Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022
  • A Web Developer's Ultimate Guide to the Terminal on macOS
    14 projects | dev.to | 21 Jul 2022
    git clone "$HOME/.zsh/pure" downloads Pure from GitHub. Here we tell git where to download from ("https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure.git") and where to put the downloaded files ("$HOME/.zsh/pure")
  • Useful Shell Prompt (2020)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2022
    I've been using pure theme for a few years and absolutely love it. It shows me everything I need, but doesn't feel cluttered.

    It uses 2 lines, which is actually really nice. It gives space to show where you are and git status/branch, while still allowing you to write long commands.

    https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure

  • Suggest a fast convenient zsh prompt?
    4 projects | /r/zsh | 29 Jan 2022
    I’ve always been pretty happy with https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
  • pure prompt
    1 project | /r/ohmyzsh | 6 Jan 2022
    hey I am trying to install the Pure prompt but I am unable to do so using npm I tried to find an alternative made for oh my zsh method so I tried to do this but it results in an error saying that the pure theme can not be found even though I can see the symlink in the themes folder all I did different from this was to clone it into the themes folder so please help thanks in advance
  • Mastering Bash and Terminal
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2021
    My favorite for this purpose is pure prompt: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure

    I wasn’t sure about multi line at first, but really digging it now.

  • What are some of the best zsh themes?
    3 projects | /r/zsh | 29 Oct 2021
    https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure has been my go-to for years. Haven't found a reason to change.

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 2024-04-25.
  • Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2024
    In addition, I think bash's `operate-and-get-next` can be very helpful. When you go back through your shell history, you can hit Ctrl+o instead of enter and it will execute the command then put the next one in your history on the command line, and keep track of where you are in your history. This way, you can rerun a bunch of commands by going to the first one and Ctrl+o till you are done. And you can edit those commands and hit Ctrl+o and still go to the next previously run command.

    Note: fzf's history search feature breaks this. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/2399

  • 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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool

iterm2-snazzy - Elegant iTerm2 theme with bright colors

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

fancy-git - That's a terminal prompt changer that shows a few cool git informations about your repository state. You can choose among different styles and enjoy all the aliases it provides you. Feel free for contributing, pull requests and issues are always welcome! ;)

z - z - jump around

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

tide - 🌊 The ultimate Fish prompt.

mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!

clink-flex-prompt - Flex prompt for Clink

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console