fzf.vim VS fzf-lua

Compare fzf.vim vs fzf-lua and see what are their differences.

fzf-lua

Improved fzf.vim written in lua (by ibhagwan)
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fzf.vim fzf-lua
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9,371 1,664
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6.8 9.6
27 days ago 4 days ago
Vim Script Lua
MIT License GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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fzf.vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of fzf.vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.

fzf-lua

Posts with mentions or reviews of fzf-lua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
  • Code action previews with `fzf-lua`!
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 10 Dec 2023
    Shoutout to fzf-lua for adding support for code action previews! I just updated my config and I'm quite happy with the result :)
  • Your favourite Neovim plugins?
    42 projects | /r/neovim | 21 Jun 2023
    fzf-lua - fast and minimal Telescope alternative.
  • fzfx.vim: E(x)tended fzf commands missing in fzf.vim
    4 projects | /r/vim | 19 Jun 2023
    Thanks to fzf.vim and fzf-lua, everything I learned and copied is from them.
  • How to manage quickfix list history
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 17 Jun 2023
    With fzf-lua every selection sent to qf (or loclist) generated a new list with the context as name (I.e files: lua), you can then browse the quick fix history with :FzfLua quickfix_stack.
  • jfind: over 130x faster than telescope + telescope-fzf-native
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Jun 2023
    they're likely referring to fzf.vim, the vimscript plugin from the original fzf author that wraps around fzf. there's also fzf-lua nowadays.
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Jun 2023
    You might want to try: https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Jun 2023
  • Fzf-lua extension for todo-comments.nvim?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 10 May 2023
    Hello everyone, I am a happy user of both fzf-lua and todo-comments.nvim. I will never thank the authors of these two very useful plugins enough. Now, given that there are a lot of people out there using both and that todo-comments only has a Trouble and a Telescope extension for navigating through the comments, I am wondering if someone ever came up with an fzf-lua extension for todo-comments.nvim. I haven't found it by a quick online search, but maybe someone is keeping it very well hidden in their dotfiles.
  • Update: Advanced Git Search for fzf-lua
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 10 May 2023
    I recently made a Telescope extension to search your git history by content, commit message and author (reddit post). I extended the plugin so you can use it with fzf-lua 🚀
  • Telescope fuzzy-finding not working as expected
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 30 Apr 2023
    I use https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua and in my opinion its better than Telescope. It was always faster but maybe Telescope has cought up now, not sure. But it also has stuff like filtering results by simple regex like I do in pic here.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fzf.vim and fzf-lua you can also consider the following projects:

telescope.nvim - Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.

ctrlp.vim - Fuzzy file, buffer, mru, tag, etc finder.

LeaderF - An efficient fuzzy finder that helps to locate files, buffers, mrus, gtags, etc. on the fly for both vim and neovim.

nerdtree - A tree explorer plugin for vim.

telescope-fzf-native.nvim - FZF sorter for telescope written in c

harpoon

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

nvim-tree.lua - A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua

swiper - Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!

denite.nvim - :dragon: Dark powered asynchronous unite all interfaces for Neovim/Vim8

ctags - A maintained ctags implementation