I’ve used several fuzzy finder utilities in vim over the years like Command T or CtrlP. They both have there pluses and minuses but never found them to be that fast especially with large code bases I’m often working in. Fzf for me is superior so I was excited to see a plugin that integrates Fzf so well into vim. Its not just useful for finding files but works great with buffers, files with git changes, commands, marks, and even lines in open buffers.

My vim config for Fzf is as follows:

nnoremap <Leader>pb :Buffers<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>pf :GFiles<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>pg :GFiles?<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>pm :Marks<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>pc :History:<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>pl :Lines<CR>

This allows me to easily zip around my code base with speed.

demo using fzf in vim

sources:

• https://github.com/wincent/Command-T
• https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim
• https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim