How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow

Post by saagarjha » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 8:41 AM UTC

iamnotacrook wrote: post #9

roryrjb wrote: post #7

I can't really fault both of these tools at all. They have good defaults and are easy to configure and are well documented. Of course they are very performant too, but if you take the time to configuring your wildignore, learn how to use find's and rgrep's flags (maybe script some of this with shell or vimscript if necessary) you can get close to the performance of these tools and define your own usability if needed.…

Not to argue with you as I see where you're coming from (all things being equal I too usually go with the defaults) but the argument about "not having to install and setup additional tools...on lots of different machines" is very weak in these days of: git clone https://gitlab.com/myaccount/mydotfiles followed by an optional: ./deploy_stuff_if_required which for me I have working on any number of linux boxes as well…

Post by ronjouch » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 8:58 AM UTC

    function fish_user_key_bindings
        bind \eg 'test -d .git; and git checkout (string trim -- (git branch | fzf)); and commandline -f repaint'
        bind \eG 'test -d .git; and git checkout (string trim -- (git branch --all | fzf)); and commandline -f repaint'
    end

Post by saagarjha » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:21 AM UTC

Liquid_Fire wrote: post #14

saagarjha wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that not every machine I SSH into has git installed or provides me with permission to install it. Disclaimer: I recently made one of these "dotfiles" repositories anyways, to take of that what you will.

Assuming it's hosted on something like GitHub, you can just as easily download a zip/tarball of the repository instead.

Post by jcelerier » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:36 AM UTC

Galanwe wrote: post #16

Been using linux for 15 years and I never found any use case for all these fancy grep/ctrl+r/find replacements. Honestly I just feel like the authors of these tools were just too lazy to learn grep/find/cut/tr/bash/awk/etc and decided to implement everything in their own toy program, which always The list of "features" in the article lead me to the same conclusion > no need of googling the right command Yeah right bu…

Post by StavrosK » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:40 AM UTC

ronjouch wrote: post #13

I also use fzf as git branch picker :) In my fish_user_key_bindings.fish (but surely adaptable to other shells), I bind it to Alt+G: function fish_user_key_bindings bind \eg 'test -d .git; and git checkout (string trim -- (git branch | fzf)); and commandline -f repaint' bind \eG 'test -d .git; and git checkout (string trim -- (git branch --all | fzf)); and commandline -f repaint' end This goes neatly with fzf's defau…