Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder

Alexey Samoshkin2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2020–2023

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A screencast showing how to use the fzf command-line fuzzy finder in the shell and in Vim. It covers searching files and also using the Vim plugin for help tags, buffers, lines and grep matches.

Recommended as a useful early tutorial for learning fzf with Vim.

Testing, debugging & developer tools #fzf #vim #fuzzyfinder #commandline

3 comments from Hacker News

@thetadot2022-03 · in “Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder”

i use fzf daily - especially in Vim. thanks for this another resource I found valuable early on: ▶ this video EDIT: just realised this is the repo README by the fzf creator. he mentions Samoshkin's video also but it's worth repeating

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@imjasonmiller2020-04 · in “Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?”

> 3) Fuzzy file search in your editor I’ve been using “fzf” [1] for file and directory search and I can’t recommend it enough. It integrates nicely with vim [2] as well. 1. link 2. ▶ this video

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@abledon2023-03 · in “So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?”

if the article is saying to use 'fzf' to fuzzy-find things, why do we want to install 'fd' to multi-thread find things alongside fzf ? nvm. tutorial explains ▶ this video

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