explore: fzf vs television — two fuzzy finder options

home-manager/modules/tools/fzf.nix

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+# fzf: mature fuzzy finder (Go), battle-tested shell integrations
+# Activates Ctrl+R (history), Ctrl+T (files), Alt+C (dirs) in zsh
+# Preview powered by bat + ripgrep (already in core packages)
+{
+  programs.fzf = {
+    enable = true;
+    enableZshIntegration = true;
+
+    # Respect .gitignore; surface hidden files that aren't git internals
+    defaultCommand = "rg --files --hidden --follow --glob '!.git'";
+
+    defaultOptions = [
+      "--height=50%"
+      "--layout=reverse"
+      "--border=rounded"
+      "--preview='bat --style=numbers,changes --color=always --line-range=:200 {}'"
+      "--preview-window=right:55%:wrap"
+    ];
+
+    # Ctrl+T file picker
+    fileWidgetCommand = "rg --files --hidden --follow --glob '!.git'";
+    fileWidgetOptions = [
+      "--preview 'bat --style=numbers,changes --color=always --line-range=:300 {}'"
+    ];
+
+    # Alt+C directory picker
+    changeDirWidgetOptions = [
+      "--preview 'ls -la {}'"
+    ];
+  };
+}

home-manager/modules/tools/television.nix

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+{ pkgs, ... }:
+
+# television (tv): modern fuzzy finder (Rust), channel-based architecture
+# Unlike fzf's single-stream model, tv has typed "channels":
+#   tv files, tv text, tv git-log, tv git-refs, tv shell-history, tv env, tv alias
+# No automatic shell keybindings — invoked explicitly as `tv [channel]`
+# Tradeoff: more structured/visual than fzf, but less drop-in for existing workflows
+{
+  home.packages = [ pkgs.television ];
+
+  # Wire `tv` into Ctrl+R for shell history as an fzf alternative
+  # Remove or adjust if using fzf.nix alongside this module
+  programs.zsh.initExtra = ''
+    tv_history() {
+      local selected
+      selected=$(tv shell-history 2>/dev/null)
+      LBUFFER="$selected"
+      zle redisplay
+    }
+    zle -N tv_history
+    bindkey '^R' tv_history
+  '';
+}