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Tycho on Oct 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than e...

How does fzf actually work? What string matching techniques are behind it?

fernandotakai on Oct 20, 2017 [–]

their docs explain a lot on how it works, all the options and etc https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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