e is a tool let's you find and edit recently used files quickly.
It works by maintaining an index of file access information and computing best matches for a given query.
Matches are ranked based on frecency, meaning that we use information about the files total access count in addition to how long ago it was last accessed.
For more information about exactly how this works, check out the algorithm.
You can download one of the pre-built binaries from the releases page or you can build from source:
git clone https://github.com/terror/e.git && cd e
go build -o e ./src
./e # Move this into your $PATHInteracting with e is as simple as passing it a file to access:
Edit files quickly
Usage:
e [flags]
Flags:
--editor string Command to use for editing files
-h, --help help for e
--interactive Search through matches interactively
Direct matches will get accessed immediately, otherwise you have a few options:
- Specify no flags for a frecency-based match
- Add the
--interactiveflag to fuzzy search through matches
e was inspired by the well-known command-line tool
zoxide, a directory-based access by
frecency utility.