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Find file modes in console (fuzzy completion)

Is there any way to get in the console a functionality like ido find file mode for Emacs?

For those not familiar with it is a way to recuresevely find files with autocomplete functionality (with no need of TAB), I think is can be also called fuzzy completion.

You can see a video of what I'm talking about here: Find File in Emacs

Solution

  • I've started work on a bash completion module to do (non-recursive) fuzzy completion. It currently works, but with a few quirks I'm trying to iron out.

    https://github.com/mgalgs/fuzzy_bash_completion

    Usage:

    source fuzzy_bash_completion
source fuzzy_log_setup_functions

# easy-setup for many commands if you use the bash_completion package
fuzzy_replace_filedir_xspec
# or, for individual commands:
fuzzy_setup_for_command cd # set up fuzzy completion for cd

    More usage info on the github page.