try.fish

Ephemeral workspace manager for Fish shell. Create dated experiment directories and navigate them with fuzzy search.

Inspired by tobi/try, reimplemented in pure Fish + fzf.

Install

With Fisher:

fisher install displayful/try.fish

Setup

Create the default directory:

mkdir -p ~/src/tries

Or customize the path in ~/.config/fish/config.fish:

set try_path ~/experiments
mkdir -p $try_path

Dependencies

• fzf - brew install fzf

Usage

try                      # Interactive selector (fzf)
try <query>              # Selector with filter
try new <name>           # Create 2024-12-01-name
try clone <url> [name]   # Clone repo into dated dir
try worktree [name]      # Worktree from current repo
try . <name>             # Worktree from current dir
try ./path [name]        # Worktree from path
try help                 # Show help

Keyboard Shortcuts (in selector)

Key	Action
Enter	Select directory
Ctrl-D	Delete directory
Ctrl-N	Create new
Esc	Cancel

Testing

fisher install jorgebucaran/fishtape
fishtape test/*.fish

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AI Disclaimer: This project was primarily written by Claude (Anthropic) with human guidance and review. The code, tests, and documentation were AI-generated.