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πŸ”πŸŸ Fzf plugin for Fish

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I like https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

Can also do cool stuff like search for a file to open in $EDITOR and searching git log

I like this: https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

It's one of the few packages that I think genuinely enhance fish versus merely adding a bunch of cruft.

I use one fish plugin and it's a total gamechanger

https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

Being able to instantly fuzzy find files, directories, git history, processes, environment variables and command history is like having a superpower.

Once I installed fzf.fish[0], my command line experience was radically changed for the better. The goodness of fish’s command line with search ability from fzf and seeing context from bat. Great for searching your history, commit hashes, variable names, and just about everything else.

[0] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

Seems like the author of jethrokuan/fzf sort of recommends using fzf.fish[1] if you don't need some of the features:

> fzf.fish is a newer fzf plugin with very similar features. It lacks Tmux support and fzf tab completion, but includes functions for searching git log, git status, and browsing shell variables using fzf. Additionally, it is more likely to be maintained going forward. You can read more about the differences between it and this plugin in the README of fzf.fish here.

From [1] (slightly condensed):

> TLDR: choose fzf.fish over jethrokuan/fzf if you want faster, more efficient, code, code that is easier to debug if you encounter issues, a tool built on Unix philosophy, a plugin that is more likely to attract contributors because it is more maintainable and has CI, a plugin that will be more frequently updated by its author (Jethro no longer uses fish), features for searching git status, git log, and shell variables and you don't mind having to integrate fzf with Tmux yourself, which is easy to do, not having buggy fzf tab completion

Seems like it can search git status/log as well.

1: https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

Thank you for this comment. I had never come across fzf Fish plugin until now: https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

So easy to use.