McFly
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shell history search
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How HN took it
5 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Well executed and useful CLI
From 2 comments
Cool project and well executed. My only complaints are: 1. The GUI should display at the bottom of the screen rather than at the top. I found myself constantly having to jump my…
president on HNIt's fantastic and very useful! Good work!!
tinchox5 on HN
Good example of Rust for CLIs
From 1 comment
This is such a cool project! Plus a pretty awesome example of using Rust for CLI's. I'm curious about the neural network though. Is that also written in Rust? Or are you…
bhargav_ on HN
Objections
Neural network unnecessary; simpler history tools already work well
From 1 comment
For zsh, zaw[1]'s history is insanely useful. I don't really think a neural network is needed. Usually I get to the exact line I wanted with a few keystrokes. [1]:…
rane on HN
GUI results shown at top of screen rather than near the command
From 1 comment
Cool project and well executed. My only complaints are: 1. The GUI should display at the bottom of the screen rather than at the top. I found myself constantly having to jump my…
president on HN
Requests
Support for other shells such as fish
From 2 comments
Would it be much work to make this work with other shells? Personally I use fish, and would love to give this a spin with fzf.
fenrisbear on HNSame thing.
qwerty456127 on HN
Show full commands in results without truncation
From 1 comment
Cool project and well executed. My only complaints are: 1. The GUI should display at the bottom of the screen rather than at the top. I found myself constantly having to jump my…
president on HN
Online learning that updates weights as you use it
From 1 comment
Good question. At the moment it's static. I plan to make it do online learning at some point where it updates the weights as you use it.
tectonic on HN
Questions
How does it compare with fzf?
From 1 comment
How does this compare with fzf?
xxpor on HN
Does it constantly adapt to user history?
From 1 comment
Nifty! Is the neural network constantly being adjusted from the user's own patterns of history re-use? This also reminds me of one of my dream features for a shell: full dataflow…
gojomo on HN
Alternatives named
fzf
From 2 comments
How does this compare with fzf?
xxpor on HNNo, fzf is highly extensible. It can be used for files, grep, RG, git grep, bash history, and tons more.
chongli on HN
zaw for zsh
From 1 comment
For zsh, zaw[1]'s history is insanely useful. I don't really think a neural network is needed. Usually I get to the exact line I wanted with a few keystrokes. [1]:…
rane on HN
Readline history-search-backward bindings
From 2 comments
I rarely use ctrl+r, because most of the time I'm searching based on command name, which is at the start (unless it is in pipeline, etc).. so, I use this instead in `.inputrc`:…
asicsp on HNThis is actually a general feature of the GNU readline library, which a lot of programmes including bash use. For instance, a lot of REPLs like ghci use it.…
0db532a0 on HN