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Uni started life as a replacement to that plugin (note how how the output is similar) as I got tired of opening Vim all the time :-)

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Haha, thank you! (I am the author)

But it opens instantly! And zz to close

Not as "instant" as dmenu, the searching is kinda awkward and not emoji-aware, and you can't use it in pipes.

Ctrl-p like functionality wouldn't be too difficult... But I see your point

Yeah, you can do a lot with it. One of the (unstated) ideas behind uni is that it can work as a backend for a lot of different integrations: dmenu, Vim, fzf, Emacs, a more domain-specific emoji picker GUI, etc.

Other than this, the feature set is roughly similar. The biggest difference is that uni knows how to deal with emoji sequences.

I am open for suggestions on how to make the search work better.

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