Faster indexing alternatives

[vyasr]

fzf is a a fantastic tool, and it's generally fast enough for my purposes. However, in some cases where I'm indexing projects with 10s to 100s of thousands of files, Ctrl+T (or the fzf.vim equivalent, :Files) is bottlenecked by the speed of the find command used to generate the list of files. As already discussed on #763, this isn't fzf's fault at all, and can be fixed by using an alternative FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND.

I'm curious what practical recommendations for such a command would be. In particular, when I'm working on machines other than my own (i.e. where I don't have root permissions), I have little control over the mlocate database, so locate isn't an option. What other alternatives do/have people use(d)? One option would be to simply cache a local "database" by running the find command and storing the output to a file, then having fzf just parse that file instead of searching. Are there better options? Another good alternative is git ls-files (which is bound to :GFiles in fzf.vim) when working in a git repo.

Thanks in advance!

[timacdonald]

I use: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

[vyasr]

Thanks! That's a good find, I hadn't seen fd before.