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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by reddit_clone on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:04PM (#35253270)
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.

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by cbm-vic-20 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @07:30PM (#35254331)
I've seen a number of projects with hundreds of "index.js" files.
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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by hectormalot on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @08:16PM (#35254815)
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.

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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by reddit_clone on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:03AM (#35256677)
So you type a few more characters and narrow it down. Space separated snippets will match any part of the path.
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Re:So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? by nickysielicki on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:01AM (#35258108)
What I really want is orderless[1] searching of my vterm shell history. That would be a game changer.

https://github.com/oantolin/orderless

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