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Fuzzy history is nice, but the real game changer for me was the ability to pretty much stop remembering paths in big projects. The default keybindings provide t

Fuzzy history is nice, but the real game changer for me was the ability to pretty much stop remembering paths in big projects. The default keybindings provide the Ctrl-T shortcut to insert a path/filename on the command line using fuzzy search and Alt-C to fuzzy-cd. No more tedious completion - just search + enter.

snowe2010 4y ago
I just use fzf-marks. Then I can fuzzy cd the only directories that ever matter to me.
reddit_clone 4y ago
Same thing with Emacs with Projectile. I can't believe people still using a tree view of a deeply nested project and clicking though directories and finally finding a file. I am not willing to type more than a few characters for any file in the project. Fuzzy finding with quick narrowing FTW.
- cbm-vic-20 4y ago
  I've seen a number of projects with hundreds of "index.js" files.
  - hectormalot 4y ago
    fzf includes the path in your match. So, unless the directories also have unpractical names, this typically won’t be a problem. Learning for me: Brew suggests to install the shortcuts but doesn’t automatically do this. Just activated this and Ctrl-R is a big improvement this way.
  - reddit_clone 4y ago
    So you type a few more characters and narrow it down. Space separated snippets will match any part of the path.
- nickysielicki 4y ago
  What I really want is orderless[1] searching of my vterm shell history. That would be a game changer. https://github.com/oantolin/orderless https://github.com/oantolin/orderless
vladxyz 4y ago
I've got this in my profile: export CDPATH="$HOME:$HOME/code/:$(ls -d $HOME/work/*/| tr \\n :)" so regardless of my cwd I can cd into pretty much any project I'd want to.
- larschdk 4y ago
  In my environment: ~/project% find -type d | wc -l 13946 I access files in a dozen or so folders in this hierarchy regularly, so fuzzy find is an extreme boost for me.

snowe2010 4y ago

I just use fzf-marks. Then I can fuzzy cd the only directories that ever matter to me.

reddit_clone 4y ago

Same thing with Emacs with Projectile. I can't believe people still using a tree view of a deeply nested project and clicking though directories and finally finding a file. I am not willing to type more than a few characters for any file in the project. Fuzzy finding with quick narrowing FTW.

cbm-vic-20 4y ago
I've seen a number of projects with hundreds of "index.js" files.
- hectormalot 4y ago
  fzf includes the path in your match. So, unless the directories also have unpractical names, this typically won’t be a problem. Learning for me: Brew suggests to install the shortcuts but doesn’t automatically do this. Just activated this and Ctrl-R is a big improvement this way.
- reddit_clone 4y ago
  So you type a few more characters and narrow it down. Space separated snippets will match any part of the path.
nickysielicki 4y ago
What I really want is orderless[1] searching of my vterm shell history. That would be a game changer. https://github.com/oantolin/orderless https://github.com/oantolin/orderless

vladxyz 4y ago

I've got this in my profile: export CDPATH="$HOME:$HOME/code/:$(ls -d $HOME/work/*/| tr \\n :)" so regardless of my cwd I can cd into pretty much any project I'd want to.

larschdk 4y ago
In my environment: ~/project% find -type d | wc -l 13946 I access files in a dozen or so folders in this hierarchy regularly, so fuzzy find is an extreme boost for me.