FFF – opinionated fuzzy file picker for neovim

Last Updated on June 23, 2026

FFF is an opinionated fuzzy file picker for neovim. Just for files, but it tries to solve file picking completely.

It comes with a dedicated rust backend runtime that keep tracks of the file index, your file access and modifications, git status, and provides a comprehensive typo-resistant fuzzy search experience.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Works out of the box with no additional configuration.
• Typo resistant fuzzy search.
• Git status integration allowing to take advantage of last modified times within a worktree.
• Separate file index maintained by a dedicated backend allows <10 milliseconds search time for 50k files codebase.
• Display images in previews (for now requires snacks.nvim).
• Smart in a plenty of different ways hopefully helpful for your workflow.
• This plugin initializes itself lazily by default.

Website: github.com/dmtrKovalenko/fff
Support:
Developer: Dmitriy Kovalenko
License: MIT License

FFF is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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