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Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder

Alexey Samoshkin · 266.7K views · 2019-04-17 · 13:41

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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Testing, debugging & developer tools
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thetadot · 2022-03 · Recommendation

i use fzf daily - especially in Vim. thanks for this another resource I found valuable early on: [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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imjasonmiller · 2020-04 · Recommendation

> 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. [VIDEO]

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abledon · 2023-03 · Reference

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 [VIDEO]

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