Filter in the history popup?

[montoner0]

Hi. Is there a way to do filtering instead of incremental search in the clink-popup-history? It would be helpful when many similar command lines are in the history to narrow the list.

[chrisant996]

The usual way for doing that is to use the fzf fuzzy finder tool.

There's a script for using fzf with Clink, and it's available in clink-fzf. Or it's also included in clink-gizmos along with several other scripts.

[montoner0]

Thanks! Though it's not as nice as the clink native UI it's still better than nothing.

BTW I've noticed a small error in the clink-fzf installation instructions.
On step 2 it asks to "run clink set fzf.exe_location <put_dir_name_here> to tell Clink where to find the FZF program" that is not quite correct.
Instead of put_dir_name_here there should be put_exe_path_here. Otherwise I was getting an error.

[chrisant996]

Thanks! Though it's not as nice as the clink native UI it's still better than nothing.

It has far more filtering functionality than Clink would ever have.
The fzf UI is somewhat customizable as well (colors, preview window, height, and a bunch of other things).

You can make suggestions in the fzf repo for further enhancements to the fzf UI.

BTW I've noticed a small error in the clink-fzf installation instructions. On step 2 it asks to "run clink set fzf.exe_location <put_dir_name_here> to tell Clink where to find the FZF program" that is not quite correct. Instead of put_dir_name_here there should be put_exe_path_here. Otherwise I was getting an error.

Thanks, I've updated the readme in the clink-fzf repo.