Make only part of input searchable

[purpleP]

Suppose I want to fzy filter grep -rHn results. For me matches in file names are useless and just complicate things. If you would add something like fzy --filter='cut -d" " -f2, or something like that so that users could say what part of input is actually searchable this would solve this problem.

[y2kbugger]

Why not filter before sending input to fzy?

vim $(awk '/^> /{ print substr($0, 3) }' ~/.viminfo | fzy)

or in your case:

grep -rHn ly | cut -d" " -f2 | fzy

[purpleP]

@y2kbugger because that's not what I want. Suppose I'm searching something with multiple columns and I want to see both columns, but search only in the second. Think of command line history where first column is timestamp or number. There are different cases for this.

[Julian]

Another example of this for me is e.g. wanting to fzy ctags -- where I want to see the function signature, but filter only on the tag name.

[purpleP]

Another example of this for me is e.g. wanting to fzy ctags -- where I want to see the function signature, but filter only on the tag name.

Exactly!