Windows support

[ImportTaste]

Considering there appears to be PowerShell support (I know it's cross-platform now, but still) I'm surprised there's no Windows binaries available. Could you please add support for Windows?

[Ninjani]

This is blocked on skim Windows support. The alternative is call out to fzf just for Windows, I'd need some time to look into this - the search with custom keyboard shortcuts is a pretty significant part of the-way and replicating all that with fzf commands may not even be possible.

[ImportTaste]

This is blocked on skim Windows support. The alternative is call out to fzf just for Windows, I'd need some time to look into this - the search with custom keyboard shortcuts is a pretty significant part of the-way and replicating all that with fzf commands may not even be possible.

I see. I noticed this reply in what you linked, it seems like it would be more directly useful than looking at fzf, which is based on Go rather than Rust:

heatseeker (another fuzzy filter written in Rust) uses the Windows API to write to the console. This should be a good starting point to understand how to do it or how to use termwiz.

[Ninjani]

Hmm heatseeker doesn't seem to have a preview window (the window that displays the code of each snippet) nor custom keyboard shortcuts afaict.

[StaticPH]

It doesn't provide a preview window, but https://crates.io/crates/fuzzy_finder relies on the same fuzzy-matcher crate as skim, and it seems to be just as capable of the fuzzy matching, if https://crates.io/crates/lk is anything to go by. So that could be a partial alternative.

For file previewing, both https://crates.io/crates/broot and https://crates.io/crates/felix appear to provide that functionality without depending upon skim. I also get the impression that https://crates.io/crates/crokey, used by broot, can be used to allow setting custom keyboard shortcuts by loading from a config file at runtime.