pmenu VS fzf

pmenu

A dynamic terminal-based menu inspired by dmenu written in Python without dependencies with an optional MRU ordering which could also be used as an application launcher and CtrlP alternative. - sgt...

fzf

A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go

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pmenu

Website: github.com
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Categories: #Productivity #Note Taking #LMS #Sales

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fzf

Website: github.com
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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to pmenu and fzf)

pmenu

fzf

Note Taking

4 4%

Note Taking

96% 96

Productivity

5 5%

Productivity

95% 95

LMS

19 19%

LMS

81% 81

Sales

100 100%

Sales

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, fzf seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 215 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

pmenu mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of pmenu yet. Tracking of pmenu recommendations started around Jun 2021.

fzf mentions (215)

Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
I have removed limit for bash history lines and file size and am using https://github.com/junegunn/fzf for reverse-search. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago
So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig. "git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
> my history is so noisy I had to find another way The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2]. [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Z – Jump Around
You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n https://github.com/sharkdp/fd. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago