Hi, This video on FZF was really helpful. One thing though I could not install 'bat' on my Ubuntu on WSL2. I was doing sudo apt install bat - was getting errors
You edited your message... This is a copy paste from bat's GitHub page: -------------------------------------------------- If your Ubuntu/Debian installation is new enough you can simply run: apt install bat Important: If you install bat this way, please note that the executable may be installed as batcat instead of bat (due to a name clash with another package). You can set up a bat -> batcat symlink or alias to prevent any issues that may come up because of this and to be consistent with other distributions: mkdir -p ~/.local/bin ln -s /usr/bin/batcat ~/.local/bin/bat -------------------------------------------------- Which is one of the many reasons why I avoid package managers. Check this out instead: github.com/DevInsideYou/install-bat
Very nice and helpful video. I had fzf installed for a long time but never understood what the heck is going on..... After looking into it a bit deeper I love it and this video showed me a lot more useful 🙏
Thank you! Very nice tutorial! Do you have somewhere your settings from .profile? I can't find on Gitgub the settings for FZF which I see in the video :(
It's alacritty and the zsh theme is called "intheloop" and it comes from oh-my-zsh (in fact I changed it a bit, I made the @ symbol gray). However I believe what you are most interested in is byobu which is a tmux wrapper. I have videos about both zsh and byobu and many others.
MacOS might not be the issue. It might depend more on your terminal. Also note that fzf recently changed the way the key bindings are activated since v48 github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/tag/0.48.0 This is how my ~/.zshrc looks like these days: if [ $(command -v fzf) ]; then # Set up fzf key bindings and fuzzy completion eval "$(fzf --zsh)" fi
the OMZ plugin calles zsh-navigation-tools does fuzzy search with bindkeys. I reinstalled my system and couldn't figure out what plugin I was missing. I missed this functionality so much. It was like losing a part of my brain. I figured out fzf does the same thing, and I think it's better.
for some reason fd doesn't work for me even when I have it installed. I just get "eval command not found: fd --type f --color=never --hidden" and I have fd installed. Don't know whats wrong!
Hmm, that's strange. So if you simply type in `fd` into your terminal it works fine but if you type in `fd --type f --color=never --hidden` it doesn't? What OS are you on? Not that this information would help, I'm just curious.
@@DevInsideYou yes, if I simple type fd it would show all file and directories in the current directory. But when I pass options it doesn't list anything. I'm on Arch Linux. I changed it to regular find command instead of fd, but I don't understand why fd doesn't work with options.
@@notionpicture I've got the exact same issue! The customization of Alt + C worked, but Ctrl + T doesn't for the exact same reason you outlined. The thing is: the fd command works fine if I just type it in the terminal, even if it's piped into fzf. It just does not work when used in FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND. No idea what's going wrong here.
With all due respect, the whole "copy/paste" approach to DevOps I see so many people taking now is actually really horrible. You traded in a package manager because you didn't want to trust what's going on under the hood (despite the fact we're talking about Free Software which provides the freedom to access and study the source code). Ok, that's fine... I can respect that. The problem is, you then built something which you are then advocating people essentially "blindly trust" by copying and pasting (
he is basically just installing from source. Which is fine if you dont mind managing all the dependencies yourself. But yeah be careful what you download and run. I guess this is his windows mindset still at work.
How is this any worse (from a security perspective) than blindly trusting the package manager? I'm not sure I would know how to find the source that Ubuntu used to build their version of the tool, but I can easily verify that a simple git clone make install script is doing exactly what I think it does with exactly the code I want (and the version I want). I think it is also far worse to go adding a new third-party ppa every time you need something that isn't in your distro's official package archive. But I think that the main reason he is not installing tools with a package manager is to be able to have current versions. I do the same thing for tools I want to keep on a recent version, or that my distro decided not to include. Also, you have zero control over the compile options that the distro used, which is a big deal when you want a certain feature in vim or some other tool. The few different outdated "one size fits all" binaries in apt-get don't always cut it. He is after all using the Plug package manager in vim, but that works by cloning the git repos, so it does what he wants. You have full control over which branch/tag it uses, or you can have your own forks on github or anywhere else a git repo can be hosted. Don't get me wrong, I still apt-get 90% of what I need, but for things like editors and other developer tools that I interact with many times every day I tend to prefer going straight to the source, especially if there is active development that makes it hard for package managers to keep up. I think his approach is merely a consolidated form of the usual README install instructions for most repos.
Table of Contents
00:00 intro
01:10 installation
04:20 fzf hello world
07:37 files
08:57 config
12:15 search syntax
12:59 key bindings and autocompletion
21:46 fzf-tmux
24:37 tricks, wiki and vim integration
30:42 conclusion
Hi, This video on FZF was really helpful. One thing though I could not install 'bat' on my Ubuntu on WSL2. I was doing sudo apt install bat - was getting errors
Ah you are right. I updated the description. They were in my .profile. Over here: github.com/agilesteel/.dotfiles/blob/master/stow/shell/.profile
@@DevInsideYou Thank you
You edited your message... This is a copy paste from bat's GitHub page:
--------------------------------------------------
If your Ubuntu/Debian installation is new enough you can simply run:
apt install bat
Important: If you install bat this way, please note that the executable may be installed as batcat instead of bat (due to a name clash with another package). You can set up a bat -> batcat symlink or alias to prevent any issues that may come up because of this and to be consistent with other distributions:
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
ln -s /usr/bin/batcat ~/.local/bin/bat
--------------------------------------------------
Which is one of the many reasons why I avoid package managers. Check this out instead: github.com/DevInsideYou/install-bat
This helped me begin using fzf more effectively. I know you put a lot of time into this. Thank you.
+1 for adding chapters in this video.
Very nice and helpful video.
I had fzf installed for a long time but never understood what the heck is going on.....
After looking into it a bit deeper I love it and this video showed me a lot more useful 🙏
excellent tutorial. All tutorials should be like this. Thank you!!!
thanks alot, one of the best about fzf so far I have seen
Excellent tutorial **chef's kiss**
Excellent video! 😊
Thank you so much) Спасибо!
Very helpful. Thank you!
Great video super clear and helpful thank you so much!!
Great explanation. Very helpful. Thanks.
Thank you! Very nice tutorial! Do you have somewhere your settings from .profile? I can't find on Gitgub the settings for FZF which I see in the video :(
It's not much but here you go github.com/agilesteel/.dotfiles/blob/master/stow/zsh/.zshrc#L179
Thank you!!
But the terminal is empty and there is this message: [Command failed: fd --type f --color=never --hidden]
This line tells it to use fd instead of find. You don't have fd installed github.com/sharkdp/fd
@@DevInsideYou Thanks a lot for fast answer!! It works now! :) All the best!
Very useful, thanks.
Hi, what is that terminal and prompt? They look so clean.
It's alacritty and the zsh theme is called "intheloop" and it comes from oh-my-zsh (in fact I changed it a bit, I made the @ symbol gray). However I believe what you are most interested in is byobu which is a tmux wrapper. I have videos about both zsh and byobu and many others.
dev inside me 😳
how use hotkey (ctrlT altT ) in macOs?
MacOS might not be the issue. It might depend more on your terminal. Also note that fzf recently changed the way the key bindings are activated since v48 github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/tag/0.48.0 This is how my ~/.zshrc looks like these days:
if [ $(command -v fzf) ]; then
# Set up fzf key bindings and fuzzy completion
eval "$(fzf --zsh)"
fi
thank you, is useful
the OMZ plugin calles zsh-navigation-tools does fuzzy search with bindkeys. I reinstalled my system and couldn't figure out what plugin I was missing. I missed this functionality so much. It was like losing a part of my brain. I figured out fzf does the same thing, and I think it's better.
there are zsh plugins that use fzf
Thanks!
for mac users - use `esc + c` instead of `alt + c`
for some reason fd doesn't work for me even when I have it installed. I just get "eval command not found: fd --type f --color=never --hidden" and I have fd installed. Don't know whats wrong!
Hmm, that's strange. So if you simply type in `fd` into your terminal it works fine but if you type in `fd --type f --color=never --hidden` it doesn't? What OS are you on? Not that this information would help, I'm just curious.
@@DevInsideYou yes, if I simple type fd it would show all file and directories in the current directory. But when I pass options it doesn't list anything. I'm on Arch Linux. I changed it to regular find command instead of fd, but I don't understand why fd doesn't work with options.
No idea. Maybe open an issue on fd's GitHub?
@@notionpicture I've got the exact same issue! The customization of Alt + C worked, but Ctrl + T doesn't for the exact same reason you outlined. The thing is: the fd command works fine if I just type it in the terminal, even if it's piped into fzf. It just does not work when used in FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND. No idea what's going wrong here.
I installed fzf but ctrl+r wasn't overriden
How did you install it?
@@DevInsideYou
Thanks for reaching back.
somehow the homebrew command changes to bashrc didn't stick. I ran it again and it's fine now.
With all due respect, the whole "copy/paste" approach to DevOps I see so many people taking now is actually really horrible. You traded in a package manager because you didn't want to trust what's going on under the hood (despite the fact we're talking about Free Software which provides the freedom to access and study the source code). Ok, that's fine... I can respect that. The problem is, you then built something which you are then advocating people essentially "blindly trust" by copying and pasting (
he is basically just installing from source. Which is fine if you dont mind managing all the dependencies yourself. But yeah be careful what you download and run. I guess this is his windows mindset still at work.
How is this any worse (from a security perspective) than blindly trusting the package manager? I'm not sure I would know how to find the source that Ubuntu used to build their version of the tool, but I can easily verify that a simple git clone make install script is doing exactly what I think it does with exactly the code I want (and the version I want). I think it is also far worse to go adding a new third-party ppa every time you need something that isn't in your distro's official package archive.
But I think that the main reason he is not installing tools with a package manager is to be able to have current versions. I do the same thing for tools I want to keep on a recent version, or that my distro decided not to include. Also, you have zero control over the compile options that the distro used, which is a big deal when you want a certain feature in vim or some other tool. The few different outdated "one size fits all" binaries in apt-get don't always cut it.
He is after all using the Plug package manager in vim, but that works by cloning the git repos, so it does what he wants. You have full control over which branch/tag it uses, or you can have your own forks on github or anywhere else a git repo can be hosted.
Don't get me wrong, I still apt-get 90% of what I need, but for things like editors and other developer tools that I interact with many times every day I tend to prefer going straight to the source, especially if there is active development that makes it hard for package managers to keep up.
I think his approach is merely a consolidated form of the usual README install instructions for most repos.
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but why? Why? WHY Windows?
I wish I could be on Linux, but the driver and some software support prevents me from doing so.
Why not ? For me, It was hardware support (my docking station and audio controller), and softwares (Adobe suite, Windows games, etc...)
By default, ignoring proper package managers is a bad idea. Know what you are doing.
ironic how you use fzf to kill htop, htop being the best tool to kill other processes…
Hahaha I didn't even notice