fzf

It’s a general purpose fuzzy finder written in Go that can be used with any list of things: files, processes, command history, git branches, etc.

For Zsh, it provides the following key bindings (overwrite existing ones), and they are very handy:

• C-t::Paste the selected file path(s) into the command line. Useful to insert quickly paths into arguments of commands.
• M-C::Directory search, cd into the selected directory
• vi $(fd \.yaml|fzf)::run a command with the selected item from fzf as argument
• mv $(fd -t directory|fzf) ~/Temp/, DANGER::move a directory from selected path to ~/Temp/

Fuzzy completion mode

• Select multiple items in FZF::vi ** and press <TAB>

• Select Files under parent directory::vi ../**<TAB>

• Select Files under parent directory that match fzf::vi ../fzf**<TAB>

• Select Files under your home directory::vi ~/**<TAB>

• Find/Change to some directory under current directory (single-selection)::cd **<TAB>

• Select Host names::ssh **<TAB>

• Select Telent::telnet **<TAB>

• Select Directories under ~/.config that match nvim
cd ~/.config/nvim**<TAB>

• Select Process IDs. Can select multiple processes with TAB or S-TAB
kill -9 **<TAB>

Select Environment variables / aliases

• unset **<TAB>
• export **<TAB>
• unalias **<TAB>

Use with ripgrep

rg . | fzf::Fuzzy search every line in every file rg . | fzf | cut -d ":" -f 1::Fuzzy search every line, in every file, and return the file location

TODO

• review Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder

References

• man fzf
• So you’ve installed fzf. Now what?
• Navigating a filesystem quickly with fzf and fd
• Sidney Liebrand’s blog - How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow