Subtree-search

[jarun]

I would like to have this feature coming with nnn. However, I don't want to rewrite locate and don't want to do an on-the-fly match every time (to make it smarter and faster we would need much more than a brute-force search).

The best option is a GUI utility that we can invoke. We use NAME_MAX chars for each dir entry, to show subtrees we'll have to bump it to PATH_MAX. They we would have to render those, make changes in the interface, making life harder than it should be. I have already updated a defect on fsearch I raised on a similar line. However, I am not sure if it would be accepted or would be possible with minimal changes in fsearch.

Opening this defect for suggestions on any similar search utility you guys are aware of.

@zmwangx @shaggytwodope @szlin @fennm

[jarun]

It seems catfish serves my purpose very well. It takes the path as argument.

[szlin]

There are some CLI search utilities - doodle 1 2 and mlocate 3.

[szlin]

Oops, the above message was dropped accidentally due to network issue...

[jarun]

I was looking for something GUI. fsearch would have been great but catfish fits the bill very well today.