fzf

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2015–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with fzf, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Changes the Ctrl-r history search muscle memory users rely on2025-03-26
Must type filename, select it, then press enter to open; wants direct matching2023-03-22
Typing to search is noticeably slow on large history, especially first characters2023-03-22
Fuzzy search returns thousands of irrelevant hits from Library folders, confusing narrowing2023-03-22
Default Ctrl+R search requires typing a unique prefix, and can't scroll through matches2023-03-21
Extremely slow when used over Tramp via ssh to Linux2020-05-31
Can't figure out how to edit, stage or commit; Alt-X keys type into search2020-05-30
Pressing ESC or ctrl-c opens vim with no file instead of cancelling2017-10-20
Selecting a history entry only inserts it, so an extra Enter press is needed to run it2015-09-03