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Custom fuzzy search

Feature Requests

Inspired by the RSS Integration feature request, I believe there’s potential to generalize fuzzy search workflows as a whole.

I’m a huge fan of fzf in the terminal, makes it amazing to build up custom workflows for filtering & entering things very quickly (like searching roles in cloud provider platforms to insert into your terraform setup)

This feature could be designed in a variety of ways, so I’ll leave it to you on what makes the most sense. But in general, it’s something like this in fzf:

  1. Fetch / load data

  2. Pre-process in a certain way (things like jq using JSON, awk, etc)

  3. Show results

  4. Fuzzy search

  5. Enter to insert (or customizable actions)

In advanced cases, this can even be further expanded to pipelined fzf instantiations like fzf search of menu items → fzf search of actions on selected menu item

Posted by micksy ·
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  • rmdashrfv

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    Aug 1, 2024

    I’ve stopped just short of using fzf every time I get ready to add it to my workflow, but I’ve only heard great things about it! Do you have a video that’s a good starter for understanding fzf? This would help me wrap my head around it.

    So essentially you’re saying that rather than the standard “search for something > press enter”, it would be a whole new paradigm of interacting with the computer via Monarch .. having built your own custom actions for things based on what items you’re taking an action on? Am I getting that correctly or am I off?