![]() The plugin exposes a number of commands that are very useful, and I'll go through the ones I use most often: There's a Vim plugin for FZF and Ripgrep integration, which, since I use vim-plugged, I could install by adding the following to my init.vim, then running PlugUpdate from Neovim: On Ubuntu, Ripgrep is in the repositories, but FZF isn't, so it was necessary to install it in my home directory. On Mac OS X, both are available via Homebrew, so they're easy to install. Both have proven so useful they're now a permanent part of my setup. FZF is a fuzzy file finder, written in Go, while Ripgrep is an extremely fast grep, written in Rust, that respects gitignore rules by default. I therefore started looking around for alternative search systems, and one combination that kept on coming up was FZF and Ripgrep, so I decided to give them a try. This was troublesome because my usual method of searching in files is to use Tim Pope's Fugitive Vim plugin as a frontend for git grep, and so it would be harder than usual to navigate the project. Published by Matthew Daly at 27th December 2018 6:37 pm T18:37:09+00:00Ī while back I was asked to make some changes to a legacy project that was still using Subversion. " call plug# begin ( '~/.vim/plugged' ) " Plug 'junegunn/fzf', endif " Aligns the fzf color scheme with your Vim color scheme.Improving search in Vim and Neovim with FZF and Ripgrep vimrc (or init.vim, if you’re using NeoVim): If you’re using NeoVim, refer to our How to Install NeoVim and Plugins with vim-plug guide instead.Īdd the Plug line for fzf, as shown below, to the plugin section of your. The preferred manager for fzf is vim-plug, which you can install using the following command:: curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim -create-dirs Verify your installation by checking the fzf version: fzf -version Run the fzf installation script: ~/.fzf/install Command-line ToolĬlone the necessary files from the fzf Git repository to a new directory in your user’s home directory: git clone -depth 1 ~/.fzf The preferred approach, however, is to install the command-line tool and additionally install the Vim plugin if you plan to use fzf in Vim. However, you can also install fzf just as a Vim plugin, if you only intend to use it in Vim. The main option provides you with the fzf command-line tool, which is generally the most useful. You have two options when it comes to installing fzf. For instance, you can use the fzf interface with cd to have an interactive search and selection for your directory navigation. In other words, fzf allows you to give an interactive interface to many commands that otherwise don’t have one. ![]() Check out the How to Use fzf on the Command Line section below for some examples of this ability in action.īecause of the ability of fzf to integrate with other commands, it can be used directly for a wide array of other commands. Whatever list another command pipes into fzf, fzf can then use its fuzzy finder search and pipe your selection to another command. This means that it can be used in conjunction with many other command-line commands. ![]() It’s able to integrate with numerous other commands, and two particular features make that fact useful:įzf acts as a Unix command-line filter. The interface is customizable, too, so you can control the look and feel and even add file previews.īut fzf also stands out for its adaptability. Your fzf searches are conducted in an interactive and dynamic interface that lets you easily navigate and select from matching options. What is fzf?įzf is a fuzzy finder for the command line. If you’re not familiar with the sudo command, see the Linux Users and Groups guide. Commands that require elevated privileges are prefixed with sudo. The steps in this guide are written for non-root users.
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