lf (file manager) VS The Silver Searcher

This looks neat, but has a lot going on. I really like how minimalist lf [0] is and just use edir [1] to rename files in bulk - [0] https://github.com/gokcehan/lf. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

A very good alternative to ranger is lf https://github.com/gokcehan/lf It's a lot faster in all aspects, has mostly the same features and is pretty much a standalone binary. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

I've tried using LF in the past, but it didn't stick. Will definitely give this a go, as I'm trying to move to an pure terminal workflow as closely as possible. https://github.com/gokcehan/lf. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Hi. Fff, lf, clifm Won't say they're best or not, rather interesting and maybe worth looking at. Looked up for the z in termux's repos and it's called "zoxide" there. Source: 11 months ago

I recently discovered an amazing terminal file manager (lf). The package is available for most mainstream distros but not for openSUSE. Source: about 1 year ago

If you have trouble finding it among the other stuff happening in the server log, well, so do I! I recommend learning how to programmatically search through your terminal output. Providing a universal method for this is challenging because various tools and terminal emulators implement this functionality differently. Another option would be to use tools like grep or the_silver_searcher (a favorite of mine) to... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

Some of the examples below use ag, but could just as well use grep or equivalent. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

Why guess when [there are installation instructions for various platforms on the README](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#installing)? Also, although it may not be easy to remember, is this really a problem in practice given the installation count in most contexts is one? If there's a context where it's installed regularly, that's... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

URL 🔗 : https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

My "vim" way of finding all the places where a function is being used: using visual mode, marking the function, and passing it to :Ag (silversearcher) The problem with this is that it is not 100% accurate, since it will just look for things with the same name, so I was thinking about using the LSP to make things more robust. Source: about 1 year ago