Show HN: Quick Command-line File Completion
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Show HN: Quick Command-line File Completion
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#2Wow this is pretty cool, does it affect the terminals performance though?
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#3This looks similar to what fzf [1] does. There seems to be a bit of a difference between how it treats files within Git repositories, but other than that I tell what the differences are.
Re: Show HN: Quick Command-line File Completion
#4Wow this is pretty cool, does it affect the terminals performance though?
Doesn't appear to. It may run slowly itself once you press the hotkey but startup speed is not really affected.
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#5I always wanted this, typing paths is so annoying. I think the command line got stuck in the last millennium. So much things could be automated there, especially command completion. Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever. Computers should be like magic.
What could be improved: if I type "nano index." I see some index.js files but not my index.html file from my node project.
Ah ok it's in a different folder, but it would be cool if it showed anyways.
Re: Show HN: Quick Command-line File Completion
#6Look into fish shell. It does this and more. Or iterm2 does similar.
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#7Look into fish shell. It does this and more. Or iterm2 does similar.
Fish shell does a lot of stuff, I know it's pretty good but I personally don't want it, I do really like this particular feature.
I don't know if I'm a very narrow intersection but I'm really happy with this script!
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#8Look into fish shell. It does this and more. Or iterm2 does similar.
iTerm2 does something like that? How/what? I've been using it for years and never heard of that, looks like once again I've been missing out on something incredibly useful for way too long. :)
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#9I always wanted this, typing paths is so annoying. I think the command line got stuck in the last millennium. So much things could be automated there, especially command completion. Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever. Computers should be like magic. What could be improved: if I type "nano index." I see some index.js files but not my index.html file from my node project. Ah ok it'…
>Why do I have to remember the stupid -xfv parameters for tar or whatever.
A quite popular handy tool for that: http://www.nongnu.org/atool/
Re: Show HN: Quick Command-line File Completion
#10This looks similar to what fzf [1] does. There seems to be a bit of a difference between how it treats files within Git repositories, but other than that I tell what the differences are. [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
There is a difference in intention:
fzf presents itself as a general fuzzy finder tool. QFC is a specific tool for completing just file/dir path.
If you use the two, you will notice the difference quickly.
Sorting && Filtering isn't the same, for example: If you write 'bin' and there is a matched directory for that string ('bin'), you will see only the dir path not all files inside the dir.
Also, you can arrow keys to navigate between directories.
You can also type special characters like '~', '$HOME' etc..