<story><title>So you&apos;ve installed `fzf` – now what?</title><url>https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Fantastic article.&lt;p&gt;I was exactly in the situation the article describes, I installed it, then, didn&amp;#x27;t find a use case.&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s because Ubuntu doesn&amp;#x27;t come with completion enabled by default.&lt;p&gt;You have to add in your bashrc:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    if [ -e &amp;#x2F;usr&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;fzf&amp;#x2F;examples&amp;#x2F;key-bindings.bash ]; then
      source &amp;#x2F;usr&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;fzf&amp;#x2F;examples&amp;#x2F;key-bindings.bash
    fi
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The fzf and ubuntu docs don&amp;#x27;t mention you have to.&lt;p&gt;Couldn&amp;#x27;t find easily how to do it with google, but chatgpt saved the day once again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>b3morales</author><text>You do have to remember to use it, but the thing to keep in mind is that you can pipe a list of &lt;i&gt;ANYTHING&lt;/i&gt; into it. Any list of text items you can search through with a text query is fair game.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   git log --oneline | fzf
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for example is one of my favorite tricks. Instead of scanning by eye or repeatedly grepping to find something, it&amp;#x27;s a live fuzzy filter. And depending on how deep you want to go you can then add key bindings to check out the selected commit, or preview the full message, or anything really.</text></comment>
<story><title>So you&apos;ve installed `fzf` – now what?</title><url>https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Fantastic article.&lt;p&gt;I was exactly in the situation the article describes, I installed it, then, didn&amp;#x27;t find a use case.&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s because Ubuntu doesn&amp;#x27;t come with completion enabled by default.&lt;p&gt;You have to add in your bashrc:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    if [ -e &amp;#x2F;usr&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;fzf&amp;#x2F;examples&amp;#x2F;key-bindings.bash ]; then
      source &amp;#x2F;usr&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;doc&amp;#x2F;fzf&amp;#x2F;examples&amp;#x2F;key-bindings.bash
    fi
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
The fzf and ubuntu docs don&amp;#x27;t mention you have to.&lt;p&gt;Couldn&amp;#x27;t find easily how to do it with google, but chatgpt saved the day once again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>triyambakam</author><text>The default install script asks if you want to install key bindings and adds that to your bashrc. How did you install fzf?</text></comment>