From f7e92893e0bddcbff82e11784fd620886fa1297d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: historia <[not public]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:45:42 -0400
Subject: revert to shell scripts, too many bugs with lua implementation

---
 README.md | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5464462..7aebe3d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,15 +55,22 @@ Example config via [lazy.nvim](https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim)
 
 * [`ibhagwan/fzf-lua`](https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua) - Neovim plugin
 * `fzf` - Fuzzy finder
+* (OPTIONAL) `fd` - Fast `find` replacement
+* (OPTIONAL) `sd` - Fast `sed` replacement
+* (OPTIONAL) [`qsv`](https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv) - Fast `column` replacement
 * (OPTIONAL) `bat` - Nicer preview than `cat`
 * (OPTIONAL) `ripgrep` - Required to search note contents
 
 ```
-Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S fzf ripgrep bat
-Debian:     sudo apt install fzf ripgrep bat
+Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S fzf ripgrep fd sd bat
+            yay -S qsv-bin
+
+Debian: sudo apt install fzf ripgrep fd-find sd bat
+        export PATH=/usr/lib/cargo/bin/:$PATH (to add `fd` to path)
+        Install qsv from Github
 ```
 
-All file parsing and table formatting is done in pure Lua, so the only runtime dependency beyond `fzf-lua` is `fzf` itself.
+If the optional dependencies are missing `denote-fzf-lua` falls back to standard Unix tools (`find`, `sed`, `column`).
 
 # :DenoteSearch command
 
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