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Comment by larschdk | Hacker News Reader

Fuzzy history is nice, but the real game changer for me was the ability to pretty much stop remembering paths in big projects. The default keybindings provide the Ctrl-T shortcut to insert a path/filename on the command line using fuzzy search and Alt-C to fuzzy-cd. No more tedious completion - just search + enter.

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Same thing with Emacs with Projectile.

I can't believe people still using a tree view of a deeply nested project and clicking though directories and finally finding a file.

I am not willing to type more than a few characters for any file in the project. Fuzzy finding with quick narrowing FTW.

I've seen a number of projects with hundreds of "index.js" files.

fzf includes the path in your match. So, unless the directories also have unpractical names, this typically won’t be a problem.

Learning for me: Brew suggests to install the shortcuts but doesn’t automatically do this. Just activated this and Ctrl-R is a big improvement this way.

So you type a few more characters and narrow it down. Space separated snippets will match any part of the path.

What I really want is orderless[1] searching of my vterm shell history. That would be a game changer.

https://github.com/oantolin/orderless

I've got this in my profile:

  export CDPATH="$HOME:$HOME/code/:$(ls -d $HOME/work/*/| tr \\n :)"

so regardless of my cwd I can cd into pretty much any project I'd want to.

In my environment:

  ~/project% find -type d | wc -l
  13946

I access files in a dozen or so folders in this hierarchy regularly, so fuzzy find is an extreme boost for me.

I just use fzf-marks. Then I can fuzzy cd the only directories that ever matter to me.

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