Preview selected files in list

[garand]

In ST3, when filtering through the files in their fuzzy finder, the editor displays the contents of the file temporarily so you can peek into them without opening them. This would be an awesome feature to have as it can be helpful when trying to nail down exactly which file contains what you're looking for.

[benogle]

This is pretty heavily requested feature. I cant find many other related tickets, but it comes up with almost every sublime user. Related: atom/tree-view#3

[andersennl]

What's the current status on this? It would be really useful.

[jclusso]

any update on this? +1

[lee-dohm]

This feature is now available using the "Preview Tabs" feature. You can go into the Settings View, navigate to the tabs package settings and check "Use Preview Tabs":

[garand]

[mnquintana]

Actually @lee-dohm I think this request is slightly different from Preview Tabs as currently implemented – in the initial screenshot, files are previewed as they're selected in the fuzzy-finder, which currently isn't implemented.

[lee-dohm]

Ah ok. Thanks for catching that. Still ... progress.

[mehcode]

@mnquintana I'd agree. And this looks far easier for a quick PR now that Preview Tabs are implemented.

[garand]

[jwuwork]

Submitted a pull request #113 for this. Enjoy! =)

[wprater]

fuzzy finder and tabs are still lacking in comparison to ST3. is there an API they both use to query recently selected files?

[pcnate]

This is incredibly useful in ST3. I frequently use this to find the correct file that has a similar name because I could type in a partial path / filename match, then arrow through the list and if I hover over the text I could scroll down and see if this file contains some obscure code that I otherwise cannot find without some trial and error searching of the project folder. Many other features can be added through packages but it looks like this cannot be so easily.

[iamrauu]

+1 .. sadly its the main thing holding me back from switching to atom.

[slikk66]

So while ago searching for this, found this repo which seemed to be perfect, but didnt work for me: https://github.com/toshi-saito/fuzzy-finder

I forked it and did a bit of tweaking with @captin411 and we got it working on Atom 1.19.0

I have no idea how to get this into a real plugin, and don't have time to add all the testing but maybe someone else does.

I think we broke the "git" stuff, specifically the ignored items (whatever those do, I dont know for sure) but the fuzzy preview works great

Steps:

• Install "fuzzy-finder-plus" package, it's still available in Atom
• Disable "fuzzy-finder" default installed package
• Download my repo fork here: https://github.com/slikk66/fuzzy-finder
• Copy the contents of /lib from my fork into your plugin directory of Atom, on my machine this is: /Users/YOUR_NAME/.atom/packages/fuzzy-finder-plus/lib/
• Restart Atom

http://imgur.com/a/QwpXJ

[neilthawani]

I have opened a PR at #313 to address this.

[lee-dohm]

Upon reviewing with the team today, we've decided that we don't want to own this functionality because of the various performance and stability impacts that it could have on the fuzzy-finder package. For example, what if you type some characters or select files that match the data files in a particular directory that are 5GB each? For this reason, we're closing this issue.

However, we did discuss the possibility of someone creating a provided service that could allow other community packages to integrate with fuzzy-finder to provide this behavior. We would be open to reviewing an RFC for a design of this proposed service in atom/fuzzy-finder. If anyone is interested in working on this, please open a new issue for the RFC for review by the maintainer team.

Thanks everyone for your feedback and passion for Atom.