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Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder

Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2020–2023.

Alexey Samoshkin

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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.

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2020–2023
“another resource I found valuable early on”
— thetadot, Mar 2022, in “Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

thetadotMar 2022Recommends

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

in “Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder” · View on HN

imjasonmillerApr 2020Recommends

> 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

in “Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?” · View on HN

abledonMar 2023Cites it

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

in “So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?” · View on HN

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Testing, debugging & developer toolsfzfvimfuzzy findercommand linescreencast