alias fzubl='fzf -m | xargs subl'

> hstr is shell history suggest box. Like hstr, but with pages.

Should be "hstr-rs is shell..." I presume?

Looks like a nice project :) I'll give it a go. I've often wanted to iterate through options when ctrl-r ing in bash (not saying there isn't a way to do that, but if there is I don't know it)

Your comment reads as a no-true-scottsman "look how skilled I am" signaling device. You're not necessarily wrong, but you're also clearly fighting a pointless battle, and sound a bit out-of-touch.

Yes, the tools already exist and work. No, they do not need to be re-written, but the new versions are often substantially more usable and newcomers enjoy that. Such is the nature of life. Things change. Accept that and you'll be happier.

Your attitude might win some points with other fight-the-tide-till-my-last-dying-breath types, but it reads to me as "It is the children who are wrong!"

I worked with a guy who had the same attitude about always using kubectl over the gui because it was "faster". He was demonstrably slower at quite a few common tasks, like discovering errors in logs across many pods, than others who used the gui.

I appreciate your call to be familiar with the core unix experience, but the unix userland is definitely enriched by these newfangled tools.

All of the tools you mentioned started as rewrites of existing tools and only became better over time as they added features. That process hasn’t stopped.

Given these tasks are accomplishable in many less keystrokes using `rg` and `fzf` than the built-in utilities, how would you make the argument that you're able to accomplish these command line tasks faster using only "bash, vim, and coreutils"?

Fzf gives you a list of hits that you can go through to select the one you want. Ctrl-r in bash just shows you the current hit.

Those are real advantages.