Last Updated on May 22, 2022
Other Features
What else does peco offer?
Other features of the software include:
- Select a range of lines.
- Limit the buffer size.
- Custom keybinding.
- Since version 0.2.5, you can change the screen layout with the command line option (–layout=bottom-up) or from the Layout variable on the configuration file.
- Other command-line options:
- –exec command-line – execute external commands via shell instead of finishing/terminating peco.
- –on-cancel – determines if the user has canceled the query, which can be useful in a pipeline of commands.
- –selection-prefix – use a prefix instead of changing line color to indicate currently selected lines. default is to use colors.
- –on-cancel – select first item and immediately exit if the input contains only 1 item.
- –select-1 – select first item and immediately exit if the input contains only 1 item.
- –prompt – specify the prompt string.
- –initial-index – position of the initial index of the selection.
- –initial-filter – specify the default filter.
- Other command-line options:
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Other Features
Page 4 – Summary
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You should compare it with fzf. Seems to be much more popular (for example, fzf is in both Arch and Fedora repos, but I didn’t find peco in either). I’m sure there are subtle differences if you dig deep enough, but it would be good to know if something fundamental is different / better in one or the other.
sitaram, if you want to compare peco with fzf go right ahead.