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The default install script asks if you want to install key bindings and adds that to your bashrc. How did you install fzf?
apt install? There's no way I'm integrating a core tool like that with a crude "curl | zsh" hack. How and when would it get updated? Am I expected to stick that in an Ansible playbook?
So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
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Re: So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
#53I love fuzzy shell history. Game changer in terms of shell productivity. I use atuin[0] instead of fzf as I find the experience a bit nicer and it has history backups built in (disclaimer, I am a maintainer) Some of our users still prefer fzf because they are used to how it fuzzy finds, but we're running an experiment with skim[1] which allows us to embed the fuzzy engine without much overhead - hopefully giving them…
Thanks for the atuin reminder, I knew fzf reminded me of a crate I had on my backlog to try out but I completely forgot the name. I should probably just get to it now.
Re: So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
#54I’ve never used fzf before and live in a shell all day, but the capabilities shown in the article doesn’t seem very useful to me. Am I missing something? For Ctrl+R, how many times are people running similar variants of commands that they 1) don’t know what they typed and 2) didn’t think to simplify their workflow to not be running duplicated commands? For Alt+C, are peoples’ file and directory layouts such a mess th…
I use Ctrl+R instead of hitting my up arrow key until I find a command I want to reuse.
Re: So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
#55Thanks for this. I didn't know about the built-in-cd. For anyone on macOS trying to get Alt-C to work see https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/164 .
TL;DR - Esc+C works (yes you read that right, Esc+C)
Re: So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
#56I’ve never used fzf before and live in a shell all day, but the capabilities shown in the article doesn’t seem very useful to me. Am I missing something? For Ctrl+R, how many times are people running similar variants of commands that they 1) don’t know what they typed and 2) didn’t think to simplify their workflow to not be running duplicated commands? For Alt+C, are peoples’ file and directory layouts such a mess th…
it's simple: search can be a better interface than manual tagging and organizing
Re: So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
#57I love fuzzy shell history. Game changer in terms of shell productivity. I use atuin[0] instead of fzf as I find the experience a bit nicer and it has history backups built in (disclaimer, I am a maintainer) Some of our users still prefer fzf because they are used to how it fuzzy finds, but we're running an experiment with skim[1] which allows us to embed the fuzzy engine without much overhead - hopefully giving them…
I wanted to like atuin. The idea is great. But it just could not match the instant search that ctrl-r with fzf offers sadly. There is always a noticeable delay that annoyed me and made me revert back to fzf for search.
For me another issue was that I needed to do more keystrokes for the same behaviour (search a previously ran command and execute it).
Fuzzy shell history search is just one of those mind-blowing things. I love my history, it's such a trove and I can trust it to work as some kind of external memory (it's enough to vaguely know the kubectl command, or that I want to "du -h | sort" to see what is using disk space, etc).
Re: So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
#58I havn't seen it mentioned yet, you can also do fuzzy completion like
cd *
After pressing you get sent into fzf to make the decision
This works for ssh too
Re: So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
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The default install script asks if you want to install key bindings and adds that to your bashrc. How did you install fzf?
Not parent but on pop-os, using sudo apt install zfz I got the same behavior, had to add it myself to .bashrc
Pretty much par for the course, Linux distributions don't do per user configuration of tools beyond appending to PATH or setting some essential environment variables using scripts in in /etc/profile.d/. They will most certainly not mess with login scripts.
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