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There's a (Vim Plugin) For That Part 1: Fuzzy Finder

45 points by rudyjahchan 15y ago

mwynholds 15y ago
Nice! This might be the final reason to abandon RubyMine.
- ludicast 15y ago
  I abandoned RubyMine to go back to vim myself. Do it and do it today.
phleet 15y ago
Command-T is a much more maintained version of this, last time I checked: https://wincent.com/products/command-t https://wincent.com/products/command-t
- rane 15y ago
  In the Vim world plugins don't really have to be maintained. I like both FuzzyFinder and Command-T, but right now I'm using the former; gets the job done quite nicely and occasionally I use modes other than the basic file search.
hornbaker 15y ago
I couldn't live without Fuzzy Finder, and the following two lines in my .vimrc file which really make it fast and simple: "re-map <leader> from \ to , (comma) to avoid a reach let mapleader = "," " map comma-f to open fuzzy finder in the working dir, " ready for a wildcard filename search map <leader>f :FufFileWithFullCwd /<CR>
iron_ball 15y ago
I started with FuzzyFinder, and although I've been using PeepOpen lately, I think I'll be going back to FuzzyFinder. It makes it easy to traverse the entire filesystem (which PeepOpen does not), and it makes directory structure apparent for situations where I don't remember the exact filename, but I don't want to mess with a full tree browser either.
rane 15y ago
nnoremap <F2> :<C-u>FufRenewCache<CR> " Updates cache, useful after adding or removing files nnoremap <C-t> :<C-u>FufFile /<CR> " Makes the search recursive
zenobia 15y ago
Nice tip, thanks! Vim is full of treasures :)
gurraman 15y ago
What a coincidence: I wanted something like this and created a similar, albeit much simpler, plugin[1]. I've been trying to work around a bug (an event wasn't triggered when the completion menu is visible) for a long time and finally found a solution today when searching through GitHub. The project I found the solution in was FuzzyFinder. So I implemented a fix, but got curious about the plugin itself (I've used it before, but it was quite buggy back when). So I searched YouTube for some videos, and the one I watched was the one the OP made :) [1] https://github.com/strange/pyxis-vim https://github.com/strange/pyxis-vim
johncoltrane 15y ago
I like LustyExplorer (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890). I've mapped its 3 features like this: ,f to choose a file ,b to choose a buffer ,g to search for a word/pattern in active buffers In each case the results are filtered incrementally, more or less like in all the other similar vim plugins and the original in TextMate.
jes5199 15y ago
did they fix the bugs where your keypresses could appear out of order? because seriously, I don't want to have to slow down my typing to get software to work.
bbq 15y ago
For emacs there is http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings
pyrhho 15y ago
What I would love is a fuzzy finder that also did a 'git grep' for the search string too, so I could open files defining a function for example.
netmute 15y ago
I tried to ditch Command-T in favor of FuzzyFinder, but it really can't replace Command-T. I'm unable to recursively search for a file in my current project dir. Even when I do funny things like :FufFind **/ it takes forever to scan the project dir and then doesn't come up with the file I want. As much as I want this to be an alternative to Command-T, it isn't :(
- subleq 15y ago
  Why do you want to ditch Command-T? I've been satisfied with it. The one thing I do wish it had was ctags searching.
- enherit 15y ago
  "ctags -R --extra=+f ." will add the file names to the index. It should fix the issue.

45 points by rudyjahchan 15y ago

mwynholds 15y ago

Nice! This might be the final reason to abandon RubyMine.

ludicast 15y ago
I abandoned RubyMine to go back to vim myself. Do it and do it today.

phleet 15y ago

Command-T is a much more maintained version of this, last time I checked: https://wincent.com/products/command-t https://wincent.com/products/command-t

rane 15y ago
In the Vim world plugins don't really have to be maintained. I like both FuzzyFinder and Command-T, but right now I'm using the former; gets the job done quite nicely and occasionally I use modes other than the basic file search.

hornbaker 15y ago

I couldn't live without Fuzzy Finder, and the following two lines in my .vimrc file which really make it fast and simple: "re-map <leader> from \ to , (comma) to avoid a reach let mapleader = "," " map comma-f to open fuzzy finder in the working dir, " ready for a wildcard filename search map <leader>f :FufFileWithFullCwd /<CR>

iron_ball 15y ago

I started with FuzzyFinder, and although I've been using PeepOpen lately, I think I'll be going back to FuzzyFinder. It makes it easy to traverse the entire filesystem (which PeepOpen does not), and it makes directory structure apparent for situations where I don't remember the exact filename, but I don't want to mess with a full tree browser either.

rane 15y ago

nnoremap <F2> :<C-u>FufRenewCache<CR> " Updates cache, useful after adding or removing files nnoremap <C-t> :<C-u>FufFile /<CR> " Makes the search recursive

zenobia 15y ago

Nice tip, thanks! Vim is full of treasures :)

gurraman 15y ago

What a coincidence: I wanted something like this and created a similar, albeit much simpler, plugin[1]. I've been trying to work around a bug (an event wasn't triggered when the completion menu is visible) for a long time and finally found a solution today when searching through GitHub. The project I found the solution in was FuzzyFinder. So I implemented a fix, but got curious about the plugin itself (I've used it before, but it was quite buggy back when). So I searched YouTube for some videos, and the one I watched was the one the OP made :) [1] https://github.com/strange/pyxis-vim https://github.com/strange/pyxis-vim

johncoltrane 15y ago

I like LustyExplorer (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890). I've mapped its 3 features like this: ,f to choose a file ,b to choose a buffer ,g to search for a word/pattern in active buffers In each case the results are filtered incrementally, more or less like in all the other similar vim plugins and the original in TextMate.

jes5199 15y ago

did they fix the bugs where your keypresses could appear out of order? because seriously, I don't want to have to slow down my typing to get software to work.

bbq 15y ago

For emacs there is http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings

pyrhho 15y ago

What I would love is a fuzzy finder that also did a 'git grep' for the search string too, so I could open files defining a function for example.

netmute 15y ago

I tried to ditch Command-T in favor of FuzzyFinder, but it really can't replace Command-T. I'm unable to recursively search for a file in my current project dir. Even when I do funny things like :FufFind **/ it takes forever to scan the project dir and then doesn't come up with the file I want. As much as I want this to be an alternative to Command-T, it isn't :(

subleq 15y ago
Why do you want to ditch Command-T? I've been satisfied with it. The one thing I do wish it had was ctags searching.
enherit 15y ago
"ctags -R --extra=+f ." will add the file names to the index. It should fix the issue.