Can textual Achieve fzf-like Interactive Filtering?

[SadSock]

I'm exploring an simple way to create a terminal interactive fuzzy finder similar to fzf.

can textual achieve this？

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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[TomJGooding]

Textual does provide all the key components for a fuzzy finder, including a fuzzy matcher as well as the Input and OptionList widgets.

For example, you might have seen that Textual's command palette will suggest commands as you type.

However, unfortunately Textual does not provide a widget or simple recipe to create your own list with fuzzy matcher. Here's my issue related to this back in Sept 2023:

• [FEAT] AutoComplete widget #4750

I'm afraid you'll probably need to read through the command palette source code to understand how to build your own fuzzy finder. Alternatively, you might want to check out textual-autocomplete, but this works very differently from fzf.