Hacking with fd, fzf, fzf-tmux, and neovim

In this quick 1-minute short, I progressively use fd and fzf to find and open a file in neovim. I slowly build up the command and create a zsh alias at the end.
Thanks to ‪@JoshMedeski‬ for the idea and inspiration of the #short
Final command…
fd --type f --hidden --exclude .git | fzf-tmux -p --reverse | xargs nvim
and the alias…
alias v='fd --type f --hidden --exclude .git | fzf-tmux -p --reverse | xargs nvim'

[@nonono9700]

didn't know those exist, here I am using plain old find and grep

[@ElijahManor]

Oh yeah, some really cool tools out there! So fun to learn and wire up these tools together. Thanks for watching

[@jacobusburger]

Just subbed, this is great.

[@ElijahManor]

Awesome, thank you! Hope you enjoy the other content too!

[@sexyeur]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've joined you!

[@RobertMcGovernTarasis]

Genuinely useful short. Such a palette cleanser

[@Denis-wf4bl]

I love it, especially the fzf-tmux -p part

[@moellerdk93]

Thanks now i cant sleep 😂 have to go and try this 😅

[@andressalazargaleano6419]

Subbed just from watching this

[@ElijahManor]

Awesome, thanks! I should have a new one this week. Recorded part of it yesterday and plan to wrap it up in the next day or two.

[@androidgeeking]

You leveled my geek up

[@RootsterAnon]

This is Awesome!

[@Jplaysterraria]

I don't know if fzf has this option, but you can use `skim` to have a preview of the files while fuzzy-finding telescope style

[@ElijahManor]

Yes, you could do something like the following... fd --type f --hidden --exclude .git | fzf --preview 'bat {1}' | xargs nvim

[@xorlop]

This is so cool

[@ElijahManor]

Yay, glad you enjoyed it

[@MetalManiacBoy]

I already had a similar thing like this to cd into directories, for some reason never thought to use it to open files in neovim! Thanks :D

[@ElijahManor]

Oh yeah, pretty powerful. These days I typically use telescope once I'm in the general root project, but it's good to know about fd and fzf too. Great tools

[@eddyekofo5102]

Brilliant! 🎉

[@glitchy_weasel]

Very very creative!

[@exec_mayank]

Good, to the point, stuff! Thanks!

[@ElijahManor]

Glad it was helpful!

[@julienv7031]

To me you are just doing ls and grep the hard way…Or maybe I’m too old to understand the benefit of this lol

[@cory1111]

It’s just aesthetics that’s it. No functionality actually gained

[@watermelonsalesman]

Very nice

[@jrkdndb]

Is there any way to customize fzf? There are just colour options. Any other ideas to completely customize it? Also great content! subbed!

[@aktasesata]

Wow thanks

[@ivanvelinov4630]

awesome!

[@ElijahManor]

Glad you think so!

[@christianrystad7858]

I did something similar with oh-my-bash on Linux. Looks like this: selected_file=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | sort | tac | fzf --ansi) && [ -n "$selected_file" ] && nvim "$selected_file"

[@Cassandra_Johnson]

I feel like this is a really complicated way to press tab twice.

[@novaz8936]

Have my like

[@naranyala_dev]

awesome, go further

[@ElijahManor]

Glad you found it interesting 😀

[@HuntingKingYT]

_Uses telescope_

[@iusearchbtw4969]

For some reason, in bash -p doesn't work

[@mohammedwisam2188]

Because you need to use it inside of tmux

[@michaelmueller9635]

neat

[@user-xd5gd4pc9h]

That is pretty cool to use fzf-tmux. I wonder how to achieve this thing using just zellij, I found zellij action thing, but it give me a "dead" pane with cannot take input to fzf. I do this because I cannot find the counterpart of zellij to do the same thing like fzf-tmux and fzf-tmux cannot be installed by nix/homemanager directly. Thx!

[@jannmarcvillablanca7183]

awesome alias! but i found a problem, say if you want to interrupt the search with ctrl+c, xargs proceeds to open an empty buffer anyway, any idea how to stop running nvim?

[@ElijahManor]

TIL, thank you! And I appreciate you getting to their comment before I did. Helpful KZbin comments are the best :)

[@umop3plsdn]

great stuff but already using it... but I GOTTA KNOW what's your colorscheme/font

[@sexyeur]

I just want the full line of that rob alias haha Where are Elijah's dot files???

[@TheStickofWar]

Holy shit. How did you think of this? Now I won’t be able to not use it in my workflow, it is just too convenient.

[@ElijahManor]

Glad you found it interesting

[@user-mn6wv4iw6r]

Cool , may I ask what’s your theme in your zsh? I think that color is great. Thank~

[@daleryanaldover6545]

it's tmux

[@GokayBURUC]

It's Tmux and macOs. That's why font rendering and the colors are so clear and shiny.

[@BrazenNL]

So annoying that you can't go back and forth through the video with shorts. Searched your channel but there wasn't even a normal video.

[@ElijahManor]

Yes, shorts were a new thing to me. I now understand a lot of their limitations. If you want, you could view the tweet video where you can pause and replay parts twitter.com/elijahmanor/status/1557003773272133632?s=20&t=i9vTaDSkaFrzaAJ3O8RM3g I'm halfway consider deleting this short and making it a full video due to the limitations. Thanks for the comment

[@BrazenNL]

@@ElijahManor Much better. Thanks.

[@greyshopleskin2315]

You can go to history, there will appear the short and if you click on it, it will be played just like a regular yt vid

[@BrazenNL]

@@greyshopleskin2315 I can't get that to work, it opens it as a Short from History, too. I'm on macOS Ventura using Chrome, what are you using?

[@shaileshsundram]

@@BrazenNL works on youtube vanced

[@tommy.3377]

Why we already have ls for that

[@ngocquannguyen9901]

i can't show the popup with -p flag in | fzf-tmux -p --reverse. do it go with fzf or do i have install fzf-tmux. pls hep me

[@vlenddd]

got same problem

[@moon-0]

You have to be in a tmux session to start with in order to use it

[@moon-0]

@vlendd ^

[@davidlee588]

is there a link for the cli in the video, thank you

[@ElijahManor]

The description has more info, but since it's a short that might not be easy to get at... Final command… fd --type f --hidden --exclude .git | fzf-tmux -p --reverse | xargs nvim and the alias… alias v='fd --type f --hidden --exclude .git | fzf-tmux -p --reverse | xargs nvim'

[@ulissescruz5540]

great short! But why use fd instead of ls?

[@ElijahManor]

Good question, `fd` is more of an alternative to `find` github.com/sharkdp/fd It can do some advanced searching of nested folders, etc. with many other flags and options

[@d13gg0]

what theme do you use ?

[@DarrylHebbes]

FD? Ever heard of LS, does the same as what you did, and its native on Mac Os

[@Zzznmop]

Command “brew” not found - wat do?

[@ElijahManor]

What operating system are you using? `brew` was assuming you were on macOS brew.sh/ but there are other package managers for other operating systems. Are you on a flavor of linux or on windows?

[@Zzznmop]

@@ElijahManor I was just joking 🙃 Sudo apt install brew, right?

[@freziyt223]

Is there any way for that with powershell?

[@ClariNerd]

You had me until uou mentioned brew. Are apt, dnf, pacman, etc not good enough for you?

[@wnuggy]

you cant do that with ls (totally)

[@ElijahManor]

Thanks for watching!

[@dnk70]

what's the difference between fzf and fd?

[@potatoes_fall]

you don't need fd just use find

[@JoseRamonCanoYribarren]

I was scrolling to find this. Thank you.

[@DrJohn-qf1yi]

Is it greep behind all these commands ?

[@ElijahManor]

fd is an alternative to find and is written in rust and fzf is written in golang and is a generic fuzzy finder. As far as I can tell neither of them use grep under the covers. Unless you meant greep, which I don't know what that is

[@va9iff]

why not use `find` instead of `fd` ?

[@KpFriendly]

Eh, would rather just use fig autocomplete or inshellisense

[@mikefdorst]

Not the .zhsrc file!

[@ElijahManor]

what do you mean?

[@Lucs-ku5cb]

in tmux.conf: bind-key F send-keys 'fd --type f | fzf-tmux --border --margin=0,1 --preview "bat -f -P --plain {1}" | xargs -r nvim +' Enter

[@ElijahManor]

Nice! Well done