I use skim / `sk` for this kind of task: https://github.com/lotabout/skim . For example, for iterating on jq incantations, I have in my shell rc file:

  function jqsk {
    sk --tac --ansi --regex  --query . --multi --interactive --cmd '{}' \
       --bind 'enter:select-all+accept,ctrl-y:select-all+execute-silent(for line in {+}; do echo $line; done | pbcopy)+deselect-all' \
       --cmd-history=${HOME}/.sk_history --cmd-history-size=100000 \
       --no-clear-if-empty \
       --cmd-query "cat $1 | jq --raw-output --color-output --exit-status '.'"
  }

I should look into whether fzf or any of the other tools in this thread can be coerced into doing the same thing, the above is pretty verbose and arcane, and it doesn't always behave the way I expect.