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Feature request: Literal search

Open diamond-lizard opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

I'd like to replace my shell's ordinary control-r history search completely with fzy, but I can't because fzy only does fuzzy searching and I sometimes need to ordinary, non-fuzzy, literal searches.

It would be nice if fzy allowed the user to switch search types from fuzzy to literal. Ideally, this could be done with either a command line option or via a keyboard shortcut. This way the user could switch from one to the other when the current search is not returning what they want without having to start all over.

diamond-lizard avatar Sep 03 '17 01:09 diamond-lizard

Perhaps another solution would be to capture your search input and somehow let your shell switch between the two commands instead? That way fzy can remain focused on being a fuzzy finder.

casr avatar Oct 08 '17 14:10 casr