With FZF on Windows

##Description

A helper batch for fzf on Windows.

On Linux, the common practice for fzf is:

vim $(fzf)

On Windows platform, we can use pipe to achieve same approach.

Preview

###Windows Prompt

MSYS2

Installation

1. Download fzf binary from here and put it to C:\windows.
2. Get bin/with.bat and put it to C:\windows too.
3. For msys/cygwin get bin/win and put it to any localtion in $PATH.

Usage

Windows Prompt

1. by with <app>, it will call file search function provided by fzf and pick the last selection and pass to app as parameter.

2. by wtih only, it will call start <param> which will do default open to the selection.

3. by <command> | with <app> you get the complete filter and execute function.

4. For application which does not provide command line access directly, create a batch on C:\windows by following example below:

   :: C:\Windows\typora.bat 
   @echo off
   start "dummy" "C:\Program Files\Typora\Typora.exe" %*
   

MSYS2/Cygwin

Same as windows prompt but 2 limitations:

1. vim only has 16 colors since it cannot be captured by conEmu. It may presents different with Gvim and common vim callo.
2. pipe is not usable(because of winpty).

With Fd

The default file finder in fzf windows is dir /s /b. by using fd, you can get a decent improvement. For using it, just need to:

1. Get fd binary and put it to c:\windows.

2. Modify with.bat to enable it:

   :: Do FZF Setting Here
   set FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND=fd -a -j 4
   

Test

Trouble Shoot

"D:\xxxxxx\xxxx" Illegal file name in vim/Gvim

I don't know what is the root cause for this for now, but it is no impact to any functionality.

zsh: command not found: with

Make sure the location of script is in $PATH.

Reference

https://superuser.com/questions/343288/windows-batch-file-usebackq-quotes-within-quotes

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3062100/piping-to-findstrs-input