Fzf: Is there any way to run fzf as a daemon via API?

[sandric]

I wish I could write ivy counsel mode for fzf in emacs, because term support in emacs is horroble so everything is messed up in output. Is there any way to run fzf as a daemon and send commands to it, so it will give away list of founds in some kind of format?
Or maybe you know other projects that make workaround for that, I saw you made vim plugin for fzf, I know nothing aboud VimL, can you explain please how it works there, you dumping output to some temporary file?

[junegunn]

To answer the question, no. Have you checked https://github.com/bling/fzf.el ?

[sandric]

Yes, I'm actually used it, but soon my own config overgrowth this wrapper, so I wrote my own wrapper for it. I was thinking about using the same way as ivy uses ag command with wrapper but haven't succeed - I know little about shell programming, but suggest its because ag prints strictly to console while fzf have much more complicated rendering logic.

[jojojames]

+1 to this. Decoupling the search/sorting from the UI frontend would let this be useable on Emacs. fzf.el isn't great since it has to use the term support.