FZF Will CHANGE How You Work

FZF is useful in so many ways. It's one of my favorite tools, and it's simple yet genius.
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▶ fzf --preview 'bat --style=numbers --color=always {}'
▶ github.com/junegunn/fzf
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⏱ Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - How it works
01:48 - Searching history
02:48 - Switch directories
03:23 - Autocomplete trigger
03:52 - Zellij release!
04:25 - Integrating with ag
05:40 - More uses
05:58 - FZF in the wild
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[@bassamsaleh8034]

this is quality video. I use fzf daily but many things I didn't really know that's there. thank you

[@devopstoolbox]

Thank you buddy!

[@redDuck757]

Great tool. Thank you.

[@diego898]

The fzf+k8 part was especially awesome!

[@devopstoolbox]

I knew someone out there would appreciate 😅

[@n0kodoko143]

[@abdelrahmandwedar]

Amazing tips 😅

[@SB-qm5wg]

once you install it, you can't live without

[@devopstoolbox]

Very true

[@wojciech-kulik]

What a cool video! I had no idea about all those possibilities with fzf! Thank you! Btw. I'm also using Moonlander :D

[@devopstoolbox]

Nice! Enjoying it?

[@wojciech-kulik]

@@devopstoolbox Yes, split keyboards and column layout are the way to go! Plus the configurability is amazing

[@devopstoolbox]

@@wojciech-kulik NO DOUBT!

[@huypham0081]

that's amazing!!!!

[@LG-yi2vh]

Cool video! But which keyboard do you use in this video? None of the keyboards in the links are like this

[@devopstoolbox]

Yeah sorry for that :) this is the ZSA Moonlander

[@alexandrunechita3460]

Hey, nice video on fzf. What keyboard are you using in this video?

[@devopstoolbox]

Thanks! ZSA Moonlander

[@marksmith2540]

I like fuzzy finders but I'm happy enough without. One nice trick you can do on basically any POSIX system is to pipe the output of i.e. find into less and then use / and n to search. This lets you try a lot of different possibilities almost as quickly as with dedicated fuzzy finders.

[@devopstoolbox]

I’ll be just a little bit picky and say that reaching out to the / or ? For search is subpar compared to a fuzzy search which immediately responds both to text and deletion. That said, definitely a great workflow when running on remote systems! It doesn’t solve the filter issue when reading logs or large data sets though…

[@EbonySeraphim]

This issue is keyboard layout dependent. I’ve switched to an ergonomic split keyboard with a curved key well, and hardly any keys are a stretch on the default layout. Super easy for me to optimize may layout and thumb cluster.

[@chang112x]

This is a game changer

[@devopstoolbox]

It is! 😉

[@PalashBackup]

Not gonna lie, the split keyboard with the screen in between looks apt for a linux video.

[@elu1]

Thanks for the teaching. One of my problems is that my ctrl-T ctr-R won't work after fzf install on Mac, Any suggestion?

[@devopstoolbox]

You might have missed a step or have conflicting configs: github.com/junegunn/fzf?tab=readme-ov-file#key-bindings-for-command-line Make sure you didn’t skip the integration: github.com/junegunn/fzf?tab=readme-ov-file#setting-up-shell-integration

[@felipegutierrez2944]

I love your channel! do you know how to copy and paste from Zellij like a pro? If I have to copy from the terminal i always have to do it outside from Zellij?

[@devopstoolbox]

Thank you! I think it’s a matter of the terminal and whether it interacts with your clipboard if that an issue. If you’re asking about the workflow - my go to (and most love feature) of Zellij is to dump the screen into vim from where I can change with ease and thank yank when I’m done!

[@felipegutierrez2944]

thanks I will try to dump the screen technique!@@devopstoolbox

[@turanamo]

Start zellij by disabling mouse mode. zellij options --disable-mouse-mode Now you can just use your mouse to select and paste (shift+ins) as usual.

[@walidashik]

Great video. How do you show your terminal over your video?

[@devopstoolbox]

Thanks! Lots of options, most commonly just layering them on top of each other while editting

[@walidashik]

would love to watch video on your video making process. I guess lots of us want to watch that as well! great stuff as always man!!@@devopstoolbox

[@devopstoolbox]

Thanks buddy!@@walidashik

[@aaronmcadam]

Moonlander crew let’s go!!! Would you mind sharing your layout?

[@devopstoolbox]

Planning to! It's a bit of a mess ATM and very much not finalized but here it is - configure.zsa.io/moonlander/layouts/g9NK0/latest/0

[@daddyDangle]

Still waiting for something like tmux-sessionizer in Zellij, otherwise ready to get oxidized

[@devopstoolbox]

In what way? The ability to create path based sessions?

[@daddyDangle]

@@devopstoolbox the ability to index a folder, create path based sessions per repo, and jump between them with a telescope like interface

[@GenkiTheMuffin]

great video. how'd you get option c to actually trigger the shortcu, on my machine (mbp 14inch) it types out this weird character ç.

[@devopstoolbox]

Hmmm I guess it can be a result of too many conflicting key maps (native os, things like karabiner / kb macros, language specifics etc). Best option is to remap is to something else

[@wondrous9629]

I had the same issue, solved it by adding this to my .zshrc: bindkey "ç" fzf-cd-widget # option + c

[@Rmp613]

Thats due to the inherent mac keyboard layout. My understanding is you need to find and download one with no keys on the option layer and use that as your mac keyboard layout

[@typingcat]

Sound effects too loud compared to the voice.

[@samarnagar9699]

It happened

[@maguilecutty]

First comment from Germany haha

[@devopstoolbox]

🇩🇪

[@pycontiki]

Uber Alles 🙌🏼💯

[@Vcshahriyer]

I think the command is typed wrong LINKS ▶ fzf --preview 'bar --style=numbers --color=always {}' it should be 'bat' not 'bar'.

[@devopstoolbox]

You're perfectly right!

[@ayoubelmhamdi7920]

first comment from Gaza 🇵🇸 😁

[@devopstoolbox]

Wishing you a peaceful life

[@devopstoolbox]

@@user-sy5jh7rc6w very cool 😎 but this is a tech channel 😉

[@pycontiki]

Are you still alive?

[@Andr0id88]

Loved the bit about fzf and rg, got inspired to create this that uses bat aswell so that you get a preview and when opened Nvim will automaticly jump to that line. Use this workflow every day inside nvim but never thought about making a tool for it to use from the CLI before i saw this- thank you very much! :) Here it is for those who want to try it, alias it to something and use it like rg\ag rg --line-number --no-heading --color=always "$@" | fzf --ansi --delimiter ':' --preview 'line={2}; start=$((line > 20 ? line - 20 : 1)); bat --style=numbers --color=always --line-range "$start:" --highlight-line {2} {1}' --preview-window=right:70%:wrap --phony -q "$(echo "$1" | sed "s/ /\\ /g")" --bind "enter:execute(nvim +{2} {1} < /dev/tty)" --multi

[@devopstoolbox]

Going to test this! Carefully crafted one liners always fascinate me for some reason 😂

[@Andr0id88]

@@devopstoolbox What would be awsome if it had the possibility to live grep aswell with fzf. Im just a linux sysadmin and not a developer so that was abit over my skill level to figure out - for now atleast😅