The first jab I have received yesterday removed most of my productivity today as I was shackled to the bed up until the very evening. Here are two more improvements for my vim fzf series described most recently in the previous post and some other posts mentioned there, tracking my overall progress on the issue. The current setup is quite useful but it can be improved even further.
Differentiate between global and local search
It is possible to force some fzf actions to operate on the global home
scale and some on the current working directory in a sort of a hybrid
approach. I have configured it in .zshrc
like this:
export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="fd --type f"
export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND="fd --type f . --full-path $HOME"
export FZF_ALT_C_COMMAND="$FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND"
This way with all the previous setup in place, I can edit files in the
current working directory running gf
in the terminal or pressing this
sequence in vim, while still access all folders and files in my home by
pressing ALT+C and CTRL+T, which I find myself using less often, especially
with the z
jumping utility available.
GLobal / local search in vim as well
The above can also be ported to vim so there I can also easily access
either files stemming from the current working directory or to access files
in the home folder globally, inserting one additional line in .vimrc
,
inspired by
a comment from the fzf author:
nmap <silent> gF :<C-u>Files ~<CR>
So there's already mentioned gf
for the local files and now also a gF
for accessing all files in home folder. Enjoy!
This is a 53th post of #100daystooffload.