267K views · Apr 17, 2019 · 13:41 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2020–2023
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as a useful early tutorial for learning fzf with Vim.
“another resource I found valuable early on”HN comment, 2022
“I’ve been using “fzf” [1] for file and directory search and I can’t recommend it enough.”
Tutorial on integrating fzf with vim.
> 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
“another resource I found valuable early on”
Valuable early resource for learning fzf in Vim.
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
“nvm. tutorial explains”
Tutorial that explains why fd is used alongside fzf.
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
