Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a useful early tutorial for learning fzf with Vim.
What it is
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 by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends imjasonmiller · 2020-04 · on “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]
Recommends thetadot · 2022-03 · on “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
Cites abledon · 2023-03 · on “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]