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Television is a cross-platform, fast and extensible general purpose fuzzy finder TUI developed by alexpasmantier. As a terminal-based interface tool, it falls under the System Utilities/TUI Tools category and is designed to let users interactively narrow down large lists of files, commands, or any text stream through real-time fuzzy filtering. The current stable release, version 0.15.5, continues a rapid development cadence that has already produced 33 public iterations, reflecting the author’s commitment to incremental improvements and community feedback. Typical use cases include launching programs without touching the mouse, locating files deep within nested directories, selecting commit hashes or branches in git workflows, filtering lengthy shell history, piping output from ps, docker, or kubectl into an interactive picker, and acting as a generic dmenu replacement for window managers that favor keyboard-driven navigation. Because Television is written in Rust, it starts instantly, respects terminal themes, and exposes a plugin system that allows custom matchers, preview generators, and key bindings; these traits make it attractive to power users who maintain dotfiles, DevOps engineers who parse logs on remote servers, and developers who integrate it into Vim, Emacs, or VS Code terminals for quick open workflows. The codebase ships with sensible defaults—case-insensitive search, substring highlighting, multi-selection mode, and integrated preview pane—while remaining lightweight enough to run inside SSH sessions or embedded devices. Binary releases are published for Windows, macOS, and Linux, each built with minimal dependencies so the executable can be dropped into any folder already present in PATH. Television is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources (e.g. winget), always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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