Neovim: Replacing Telescope with FZF-LUA

[@linkarzu]

Great video, I've been wanting to try fzf-lua for some time. Thanks for the spelling suggestions with telescope tip, hadn't thought about that

[@po6577]

I add that immediately!

[@GandalfTheBrown117]

Thank you really enjoyed this video!

[@nanashi7726]

Hi! Thank you for your video! How to get the spell check feature?

[@benfrainuk]

You can grab my config from github.com/benfrain/neovim

[@kmfco]

I'm here for that ...

[@nekhaevskiy]

What do you use now instead of the telescope-file-browser extension?

[@benfrainuk]

I use Oil.nvim 👍 If you are unfamiliar with it, there is a short section on it here: A complete macOS, Terminal and Neovim dev setup for 2025 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYLTaaWKrtiiedE

[@iduran]

I use fzf-lua for live-grep and git status and pretty much Telescope for everything else. Initially I also switched entirely to fzf-lua but then started noticing a slight delay when triggering the commands as compared to telescope specially those with previews. Is there any particular reason I you switched to fzf-lua entirely?

[@benfrainuk]

No, Just curiosity. Wanted to see if it was any quicker on a larger repo. Wasn’t measurable but kept it as I quite like the aesthetic 👍

[@iduran]

@@benfrainuk Yes, for very large projects fzf is just great. It by mistake I run telescope find_file on my entire home folder it will get stuck if I start typing a query, fzf (and so fzf-lua) on the other hand handles that like a champ. So I still use both and have Fzflua files mapped to a key binding. The reason I use Telescope is because I feel it a bit snappier when I first open the popup window as compared to fzflua (but both are great).

[@comically_large_chungus]

what's the plugin to get the cursive font for the function keywords and comments?

[@benfrainuk]

I’m using Kanagawa theme and Kitty Terminal with Victor Mono font. 👍

[@theherk]

VictorMono❤

[@brick4667]

Do you have your dotfiles in their entirety posted anywhere?

[@benfrainuk]

No, Just my Neovim config files linked in the description.

[@MohammadSalehzadeh-w8r]

why your cursor is so fast and smooth?

[@benfrainuk]

I’m using Kitty terminal. Always found that to be very fast. Maybe it is that? 🤷‍♂️

[@MohammadSalehzadeh-w8r]

@@benfrainuk no its not kitty, I'm using kitty too but your scrolling and moving around in neovim is on another level 🥲 i saw this kind of performance on zed editor but never on neovim

[@to12126]

it's fast because kitty supports GPU

[@benfrainuk]

@@MohammadSalehzadeh-w8r I have a very fast key repeat setting so could that be a factor?

[@MohammadSalehzadeh-w8r]

@@benfrainuk I figured that out and made mine 2 times faster and now my cursor is fast. thanks for helping 🙏🙏

[@markbailey2985]

Your terminal gives me Ayu Mirage vibes

[@benfrainuk]

Oooh, used to use that in Sublime. It’s actually Kanagawa I’m using in Neovim 👍

[@Phileosophos]

Lol at shift+arrows being more intuitive for scrolling when ctrl + u/d are classic built-in Vim/Neovim moves.

[@benfrainuk]

Maybe felt that way for me as I use Colemak so hjkl is not my go to generally and d/u not in different positions too 🤷‍♂️ I’m an arrows guy so probably should have mentioned that for context

[@Phileosophos]

@@benfrainuk Oh I get it: I've been forced to use Microsoft tools long enough to have some familiarity with the shift + arrows stuff. I didn't intend it as an insult. I just found it funny that the motions Vim users have been enjoying for decades seemed unintuitive!

[@andrejjjj2008]

It would be nice to FIRST go into the demonstration of the plugin - and only then talk about how to install it. Cos watching 80% of the vid about the installation process, when I don’t even know whether I want to install it, is… not the best experience.

[@benfrainuk]

Yes, that’s a good idea. Will try and remember to do that next time I do something similar. 👍

[@Danielo515]

Telescope is great, but it sucks compared to fzf-lua

[@benfrainuk]

What is it you find better about FZF-LUA?

[@Danielo515]

@@benfrainuk performance. I work on repos with many files, and very large. Filtering with telescope, even using native extensions and stuff is ridiculously slow, to the point of freezing the editor. Also, It has too many configuration options making it very confusing

[@PeterPCardenas]

i’ve found that fzf lua seems a bit more daunting to customize the picker and output format, so still use telescope for those cases, but for speed definitely still love fzf lua