I'm thankful for the Linux fuzzy finder tool because it superpowers the command line by making it fast to find whatever I'm looking for.

Btw there is skim, a Rust fzf replacement that is in most repos!

  • Lunya \ she/it
    8•4 months ago

    I used fzf like twice or so and I can’t live without fuzzy finding anymore.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•4 months ago

    orderless achieves the same sort of thing in emacs, but I also use an fzf zsh alias to see my shell history all the time!

    alias hf="history -100 | fzf"

    • @[email protected]English
      4•4 months ago

      Fzf has some scripts packaged for most shells that’ll replace ctrl-r reverse history search with this behavior

      • @Shareni
        3•4 months ago

        They also add C-t and M-c for fuzzy finding files and CDing to a subdirectory

      • @[email protected]English
        2•4 months ago

        Thank you for the reply! Just figured that out and its awesome! Love CTRL+T for file names and ALT+C for cding.

  • @Andy
    6•4 months ago

    FWIW broot is a great fuzzy finding file tree tool that can be used similarly (much better for the task IMO), with a little configuration.

    • @[email protected]MEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      That looks great … if only there were an easy fish plugin version of it ;)

      I’m currently using fzf.fish and it’s been great - my only complaint is that I can’t use it to jump to/insert a directory/file that’s outside of the current directory, but it seems like your solution with boot+zsh overcomes that limitation?

      • @Andy
        2•4 months ago

        Yeah, since broot is a full featured file navigator and operator, you can get anywhere once it’s launched. I have alt+up bound to go up a directory, but there are other ways to get around as well.

        Broot supports fish out of the box, and you can use its default fish launcher function to change your folder (alt+enter quits broot then performs a cd) or insert a path (the broot command pp quits broot then prints the path, like fzf).

        I never learned fish scripting, but if anyone here has they may try to port my Zsh functions, especially to get path completion for partially typed paths. If you’re doing that and have questions about the broot config side of the equation, I’m happy to try to help.

  • THCDenton
    3•4 months ago

    Been using fzf for years now. Great integration with vim and ranger.