dmtrKovalenko/fff

• highreadme#1

  Reposition README opening to clarify its library nature

  Why:

  CURRENT

  <p>
    <i>A file search toolkit for humans and AI agents. Really fast.</i>
  </p>
  
  Typo-resistant path and content search, frecency-ranked file access, a background watcher, and a lightweight in-memory content index. Way faster than CLIs like ripgrep and fzf in any long-running process that searches more than once.
  
  Originally started as [Neovim plugin](#neovim-plugin) people loved, but it turned out that plenty of AI harnesses and code editors need the same thing: accurate, fast file search as a library. That is what fff is.

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  <p>
    <i>fff is a **file search toolkit designed as a library for embedding** in AI agents, IDEs, and other long-running processes.</i>
  </p>
  
  It offers typo-resistant path and content search, frecency-ranked file access, a background watcher, and a lightweight in-memory content index, consistently outperforming CLIs like ripgrep and fzf when integrated into applications that search more than once.

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• mediumtopics#2

  Expand topics to reflect target audience and library type

  Why:

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  filesearch, lua, neovim, neovim-plugin, rust

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  filesearch, lua, neovim, neovim-plugin, rust, ai-agents, code-editors, embedded-search, search-library

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• lowreadme#3

  Add a dedicated comparison section to the README

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  Add a new section to the README, e.g., 'Comparison to other search tools', that explicitly contrasts fff with both traditional CLIs like ripgrep/fzf (highlighting its library nature and performance in long-running processes) and full-text search engines like Elasticsearch/Solr (clarifying its focus on file system search for embedding).

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  Need a library for efficient file system search, faster than ripgrep or fzf for IDEs.

  you: not recommended
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• Compared to common alternatives in this category, what is the core differentiator of dmtrKovalenko/fff?

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• In one sentence, what problem does the repo dmtrKovalenko/fff solve, and who is the primary audience?

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