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fzf • vim

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Why you should be using fzf.

I'm still impressed at how many people aren't aware of this power. I'm yet to discover most of what it can do but I know that I may not have ended up using vim had I not discovered it.

zsh_fzf

Configures global command line flags:

• Uses fd for file search since it's faster than find. Also, colours.
• Same with ripgrep and ag versus grep. locate gets some love too.
• Most of the times it's used within git repos, so it starts with git ls-files.
• All that funky formatting logic belongs to this badboy's configuration:

--- file preview with code highlighting. It works in vim too - mostly useful to check diffs from previous commits.

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Build

# install dependencies
sudo apt update
sudo apt build-dep vim

# configure
./configure --with-features=huge \
            --enable-cscope \
            --enable-gui=gtk3 \
            --enable-multibyte \
            --enable-luainterp=yes \
            --enable-perlinterp=yes \
            --enable-rubyinterp=yes \
            --enable-python3interp=yes \
            --with-python3-config-dir=$(python3-config --configdir) \
            --prefix=/usr/local

make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/local/share/vim/vim82

# install
make install

Plugins

Staple #1 - fzf

No need to tell much, the list below (taken from the plugin's manual) shows what it can do by default.

I only used the :Files (opening files) and :Ag (searching within files) before I found that there are more options. :Buffers, :History, :Commits, :BCommits are being constantly rinsed while :Maps, :Commands and :Helptags are of great help during configuration.

fzf commands in vim

Command	List
:Files [PATH]	Files (runs $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND if defined)
:GFiles [OPTS]	Git files ( git ls-files )
:GFiles?	Git files ( git status )
:Buffers	Open buffers
:Colors	Color schemes
:Ag [PATTERN]	ag search result ( ALT-A to select all, ALT-D to deselect all)
:Rg [PATTERN]	rg search result ( ALT-A to select all, ALT-D to deselect all)
:Lines [QUERY]	Lines in loaded buffers
:BLines [QUERY]	Lines in the current buffer
:Tags [QUERY]	Tags in the project ( ctags -R )
:BTags [QUERY]	Tags in the current buffer
:Marks	Marks
:Windows	Windows
:Locate PATTERN	locate command output
:History	v:oldfiles and open buffers
:History:	Command history
:History/	Search history
:Snippets	Snippets (UltiSnips)
:Commits	Git commits (requires {fugitive.vim}{8})
:BCommits	Git commits for the current buffer
:Commands	Commands
:Maps	Normal mode mappings
:Helptags	Help tags [1]
:Filetypes	File types