Television: Fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI
61 points by thunderbong 8 hours ago | 14 comments
  • keyle 7 hours ago |
    The demo video is a bit fast, I couldn't really follow.

    It looks like an fzf alternative?

  • seanw444 7 hours ago |
    Bonus points for "written in Rust" not being in the first sentence.

    I may give this a try and see how it compares to fzf.

    • juliangmp 7 hours ago |
      To be fair it starts with "Blazing Fast" which very much gives it away
      • dietr1ch 6 hours ago |
        TBF when dealing with I/O using the right async constructs is way more important than the choice of programming language, I/O times will dominate and any mistake on the wrong wait will ruin performance.
        • juliangmp 6 hours ago |
          Absolutely but "blazing fast" has become kind of a meme among rust projects. Getting a bit tired of seeing it everywhere personally, at least show me some benchmarks when you make claims like this.

          No shade against this project (or rust in general) though, it looks very nice and I wanna try it out.

    • hulitu 2 hours ago |
      Bonus points for the name being chosen after a bottle of whisky.
  • geddawm 6 hours ago |
    can I use this in neovim? Something like fzf.vim
  • northisup 6 hours ago |
    what is the tl;dr on this vs fzf?
    • cocodill 6 hours ago |
      tv's file previewer is active per default, for fzf you have to hack it via --preview arg. subjectively tv is searching faster and previewer works faster than the fzf-preview.sh
      • throwaway290 3 hours ago |
        It is obvious that tv is blocking on file preview. I can hold up key and zip up and down in fzf. In tv it causes obvious jank, I guess it waits for every file to render. Fzf doesn't make this mistake because preview is async. It's a clear winner when input lag is concerned.
  • CGamesPlay 6 hours ago |
    Without trying to imply that this thing needs to be “different” from fzf, but how is it different, if at all? A comparison would be appreciated.
  • forrestthewoods 6 hours ago |
    Interesting. I’ve never found a fuzzyfinder that “just worked” on windows for fuzzy searching in files under the current directory. Will give it a shot.
  • dalton_zk 5 hours ago |
    I look the gif and think, seems like Telescope, and continue reading its said the one inspiration came for that.

    I love this way to find something out of the box, after telescope I never more use the file explorer.

  • 4by4by4 5 hours ago |
    This seems similar to fzf with a nice default experience (quick access to fuzzy search files, shell history, git log) and a subset of features.

    I use fzf to hack together custom TUIs (a calculator, clipboard search, quick LLM chat). The killer feature for me is `--bind` to bind keys and events to custom actions.