fzf.el VS fussy

Another alternative is fzf.el [1] which properly wraps fzf.

[1] https://github.com/bling/fzf.el

I have a similar flow. FYI bling's fzf wrapper provides fzf-with-command to work around this limitation

E.g.: https://github.com/bling/fzf.el

I have tried `find-name-dired`, `find-dired`, `find-grep-dired`, https://github.com/bling/fzf.el `fzf-directory` function, etc., but can find the functionality. I tried searching for some variable change in emacs but could not find one. Thanks for your help.

I think this exists for ivy (counsel-file-jump) and you can also do it via ido ; I think most of the time you don’t want to search in all sub dirs because it can take a long time to search through. For situations where performance can be an issue you can use fzf again via ivy / counsel or https://github.com/bling/fzf.el

True. I checked and there are such packages already: https://github.com/bling/fzf.el

> Emacs has better fuzzy finding

With due respect to Mr. Petersen, and as an Emacs user myself, I really can't agree. When I fire up fzf I just type and generally without any thinking I get what I want. Emacs takes some configuration to get to that point; the built in flex completion is, for whatever reason, not as robust in my experience.

In fact, in my current config I've been using fzf (or really skim) for completion within Emacs, via fussy: https://github.com/jojojames/fussy

Good idear, I asked in the repos https://github.com/jojojames/fussy/issues/37

As oantolin mentioned, fido completely overrides your preferred completion-styles which I called out here recently as a blocker to really adopt it if you care about performant fuzzy matching. I've done a lot of messing around with configuration in this space and my preferred setup is vertico + hotfuzz. You might also want to check out fussy which supports a bunch of different backends (FWIW, hotfuzz with the dynamic module enabled for me had the best combination of performance and behaviour, but fuz-bin and fzf-native are also great).

Currently, vertico + orderless + fussy (https://github.com/jojojames/fussy) enables you to find something with both fuzzy matching style and orderless style. I tried with Fido, only fussy works, but not orderless.

It's not enough to have a different way to list search results, however. If you want the Telescope experience you need a fuzzy completion. I have been enjoying fussy

Someone kinda has with fussy. It supports multiple filtering and sorting techniques, including fzf compiled as a dynamic module for emacs, flx, flx-rs, and more.