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Recommended as a useful early tutorial for learning fzf with Vim.
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.
“another resource I found valuable early on” (HN, 2022)
> 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]
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
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]
Tutorial that explains why fd is used alongside fzf.
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