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Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder

Alexey Samoshkin · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Testing, debugging & developer tools

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “I’ve been using “fzf” [1] for file and directory search and I can’t recommend it enough.”

    Tutorial on integrating fzf with vim.

    imjasonmiller, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?”

  2. “another resource I found valuable early on”

    Valuable early resource for learning fzf in Vim.

    thetadot, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: fzf, vim, fuzzy finder, command line, screencast

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