Migrating from fzf.vim

[sluongng]

Hey I am a long-time FZF.vim user trying to migrate to fzf-lua. This is my dotfiles for reference https://github.com/sluongng/dotfiles/blob/396f17d84cdb4b3fe82625b904e454e05e645991/.vimrc#L290-L334

Here are a few problems I ran into that I am not entirely sure how to solve after 30 minutes playing around and ended up reverting my dotfiles.

• :Commands is not available. In fzf.vim, :Commands let you fuzzy search through all the commands available. From the README of fzf-lua, it seems like the lower case :commands should be available? But I could not get it to work. This topic is a bit hard to search for because commands means different things in different context... So I would appreciate any pointer/help available.

• :Rg works differently. In fzf.vim, if you run :Rg foo, it will let you fuzzy search through the grep results. This means that the entries are already narrowed down to all places containing foo. My usually workflow would involve searching for :Rg SomeClass, then navigate to the result I want by fuzzy search for the file extension: .java or .proto. In fzf-lua, I tried the same command and it would open up the entire world and let me fuzzy search for SomeClass. This makes it harder for me to add the file extension to the search input, the search is slower as well.

Cheers.

[ibhagwan]

:commands should be available? But I could not get it to work.

:FzfLua commands

:Rg works differently. In fzf.vim, if you run :Rg foo

The fzf.vim compat mode is just a “kickstart”, you’re better off learning the fzf-lua way, everything can be found in the wiki/ issues, to search for a specific term:

Try these and play around with ctrl-g until you get it

:FzfLua grep search=foo
:FzfLua live_grep search=foo.*bar no_esc=true

[sluongng]

Thanks. I did not realize that there are subcommand to :FzfLua. This is a good building brick for me to customize my dotfiles 🤗

[ibhagwan]

100% of what's possible with fzf.vim is possible with fzf-lua, most esoteric (i.e. undocumented) stuff can be found in the docs/Wiki.

Read OPTIONS.md to understand how to supply options / configure fzf-lua.

[ibhagwan]

FYI, c2a0044 this commit also added the missing :Commands.