Xiki, Selecta and similars

[alexdantas]

I just heard of Xiki, a self-proclaimed "commandline revolution".
It has several eye-candy features and is getting real popular on Kickstarter.

One of it's features is fuzzy-selecting things on the commandline. But there's selecta, which is a very simple way doing just that.

@livibetter commented that he saw countless alternatives for it on several languages - some even better supporting, say, regexps and multiple selections.

Could he share some insights on this? For example, his favorite alternative or why doesn't he like these kind of initiatives.

[livibetter]

Just to be clear, I believe I only wrote I don't like Xiki in the email, you can copy/paste if you want.

As for selecta, I don't have favorite since I don't use it. Nothing against using it, just I don't find myself have a lot of chance to use it. But, there was once, I wished I still have one installed, but that was just being lazy at the time.

I have some binned, but I rather not digging them out as they usually are named with creativity. I'd have to go through one by one to check if that's a selecta alternative. If you want, you can search my video using "menu," I think you can find at least two. Can't really remember.

Sometimes, I really hope people check trending or ask before they start re-invent again.

I thought this would already conclude with my email reply, you really like to put me on the spotlight.