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:mag: A simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal

16 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 13 comments · first 2017-08-20 · latest 2026-07-10

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  1. …I am an old pharte, fair call, but I am a reasonably adaptable one, I think. :-D What is "fzy"? https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy ...? > Then make the panel vertical instead of horizontal Why don't any of the screenshots show that, then? I…
    comment by lproven · 2023-03-24 · in GNOME 44
  2. >Fzf is written in C That would be fzy : https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by ducktective · 2022-07-27 · in Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of Fzf
  3. Am I the only one who prefers FZY ? https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by boshanib · 2022-03-20 · in Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder
  4. fzy[1] is a less bloated alternative, written in C. fzf is neat, but it does too much. [1]: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by icy · 2021-02-05 · in Fzf – the basics part 1 – layout
  5. …issue for tier 1 support [tracking] • My intermediate README with instructions [readme] [fzy]: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy [tracking]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908 [readme]: https://github.com/shepmaster/rust/blob/sil…
    comment by shepmaster · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  6. There's a lot of these pickers and they are indeed similar. I've been using https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy since it's not fullscreen and has a really good matching algorithm.
    comment by floatboth · 2019-10-26 · in An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools
  7. …'rg --files | fzy -e hello' ran 1.37 ± 0.65 times faster than 'rg --files | fzf -f hello' [1] https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by hwj · 2019-07-05 · in How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow
  8. …(Python): https://github.com/mooz/percol - Peco (Go): https://github.com/peco/peco - fzy (C): https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by RBerenguel · 2019-05-30 · in Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim
  9. …out of nice, pure https://github.com/rupa/z Here's an alternative to fzf, for comparison's sake: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by grimgrin · 2019-03-07 · in Writing a Book with Unix
  10. The logical follow-up question would be; how does it compare to fzy? :) https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by Rafert · 2018-04-29 · in Show HN: A fast, hopefully accurate, fuzzy matching library written in Go
  11. …| sort -u | fzy --lines=$LINES [1] - http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/ [2] - https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy/ [3] - https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
    comment by pmoriarty · 2017-11-10 · in GNU Readline for Better Productivity on the Command Line
  12. If you like fzf you might be interested in fzy: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by pmoriarty · 2017-10-20 · in FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than ever before
  13. Also check out fzy: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
    comment by pmoriarty · 2017-10-19 · in Vim after 15 Years