Magit, fzf, and ast-grep demo

Date: 2025-12-19 | Tags: emacs, git, linux

This is a demo I did at work on Magit, fzf, and ast-grep. I used Magit since 2016, fzf since 2018, and ast-grep first in 2024. The Magit usage is on git interactive rebase, so it might be translated to other git clients. I recently switched from fzf to atuin, but fzf is still great. The fuzzy matching with fzf seemed to work better for me, but I think the extra metadata saved with atuin might be useful. At the time of the demo, I was not able to get the "replace" working with ast-grep. I created a demo of my issue. It's possible the issue could have been fixed since there have been many new releases since then. Or I might have been doing something wrong. I haven't used ast-grep in a while, but I did see an AI agent that advertised ast-grep integration, which sounds cool. The HN comments do say that command line tools are on the rise integrating with AI agents, so let's CLI.