nucleo-picker

Yet another fuzzy picker library. This library provides a TUI for the nucleo crate, but otherwise attempts to be a relatively thin wrapper.

As a result, you get the great features of nucleo for free™. This crate tries not to interfere with the API choices made by nucleo.

See the examples directory for implementation examples, or try it out with cargo run --example blocking.

Currently, we only directly load two dependencies:

• nucleo for matching
• crossterm for the interface

Related crates

This crate mainly exists as a result of the author's annoyance with pretty much every fuzzy picker TUI in the rust ecosystem.

• skim's Arc<dyn SkimItem> is very inconvenient since the original item cannot be recovered from the match. skim also contains a large amount of dependency baggage.
• fuzzypicker is based on skim and inherits skim's problems.
• nucleo-ui only has a blocking API and only supports matching on String.
• fuzzy-select only has a blocking API.
• dialoguer FuzzySelect only has a blocking API and only supports matching on String. The terminal handling also has a few strange bugs.

Disclaimer

The feature set of this library is quite minimal (by design) but may be expanded in the future. There are a currently a few known problems which have not been addressed (see the issues page on GitHub for a list).

This crate is not affiliated with the authors of nucleo, but if they have comments / complaints I am very glad to hear them!