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0.1.2 | Sep 7, 2018 |
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0.1.1 | Aug 27, 2018 |
0.1.0 | Aug 27, 2018 |
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fzyr
fzyr is a simple and fast fuzzy text search. It exists as both a Rust library and a standalone executable.
Basically fzy re-written in Rust.
Why?
fzyr
exists because I wanted a fuzzy finder library while learning Rust. However, you may find that it useful for your purposes
fzyr
is very similar to fzy
, so inherits its advantages (at least as of Aug 2018). For most purposes it should be usable as a drop-in replacement.
Advantages over fzy
:
- It's works on Windows! Or at least it should, that's not actually been tested yet, let me know if it doesn't π₯
- It works with all unicode strings! Hello, rest of the world πΊοΈ
- You can easily install with Cargo! Cross-platform package management π¦
- It's a Rust library! Use the algorithm in your own projects π
Disadvantages over fzy
:
- It's less-well tested
- It doesn't support arbitrary tty i/o (only stdin/stdout)
- Interactive mode needs more work
Installation
Cargo
You can install on any supported platform using Cargo, Rust's excellent pacakge manager.
$ cargo install fzyr
Linux
You can use Cargo, or if you'd prefer install as a snap
$ snap install fzyr
Homebrew
Might arrive at some point...
Windows
Use Cargo
Usage
Check out fzy for some usage examples.
To search for lines containing "something" in a file:
$ cat very-long-file | fzyr -q something
To search interactively for a file:
$ find . -type f | fzyr
Explore the options with:
$ fzyr -h
Library documentation
Coming soon...
Algorithm
The alorithm is near-identical to that of fzy
. That means:
- Search is case-insensitive (all characters are converted to their unicode-defined lowercase version, if one exists)
- Results must contain the entire query string, in the right order, but without the letters necessarily being consecutive
- Results are all given a numerical score, and returned in best-score-first order
- Prefers consecutive characters and characters that start words/filenames
- Prefers shorter results
To-do list
Feel free to make a PR if you're so moved
- Improve interactive mode
- Library documentation
- Tests for
search_locate()
- Integration tests
- Benchmarks
- Package for various OSs
- Zero-allocation search
- Arbitrary tty i/o
Dependencies
~7β14MB
~133K SLoC