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How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow

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Re: How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow

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Post by petepete »

Avi-D-coder wrote: post #3

Shameless plug FZF even works well as a dictionary/word autocompleter. https://github.com/Avi-D-coder/fzf-wordnet.vim

Neat. I use it for all kinds of stuff in Rails Feb, from searching routes and rake tasks to finding Cucumber step definitions.

I'd recommend using fd for listing files as it offers lots of filtering options right out of the box - much more useable than find imho.

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Re: How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow

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Post by roryrjb »

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. Basically I'm saying two things and can I just state that this is what works for me; that learning the included tools is worthwhile and not having to install and setup additional tools is good, especially when you are using lots of different machines. Again for Vim specifically, I'm enjoying having a small amount of keybindings for built in functionality (:b*, :vimgrep) than having a ton of plugins. I just have to move a single .vimrc around or failing that I understand how it all works by default anyway.

(Edit: typo)

Re: How FZF and ripgrep improved my workflow

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Post by iamnotacrook »

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 as the odd windows one. I've got a bunch of other config, such as bash aliases/functions etc anyway so if I'm going to want that everywhere it doesn't matter what else comes with it; I only need to perform the above once and it takes under a couple of seconds; there's just literally no reason not to do it.

One advantage of using vim-related config is precisely so you can do the same thing on different machines, including windows and linux. One thing that article doesn't touch on is tmux, and there you can have config for vim, tmux and bash so that you can effortlessly and identically move between panes in tmux as you do in vim; copy text between panes, ssh sessions and vim buffers etc. Without this system I'd be running multiple ssh sessions in little windows and copying text between them (using the mouse!) like a doofus.

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