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Add an option to ignore symbolic links when fuzzy finding #5395

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semin-park opened this issue Jan 4, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #5658
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Add an option to ignore symbolic links when fuzzy finding #5395

semin-park opened this issue Jan 4, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #5658
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A-helix-term Area: Helix term improvements C-enhancement Category: Improvements

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I haven't thought through what exactly needs to change, but it would be nice to add a configuration option to let the fuzzy finder ignore symbolic links.

This will be useful when the user is working in a large codebase and has a lot of symbolic links for whatever reason. For example, I was working on a codebase with a lot of symlinks generated during compilation, and helix was showing 900,000 files including symbolic links whereas there were only(?) 350,000 real files in the directory.

Since helix fuzzy finder is currently synchronous, being able to ignore symlinks will also provide a nice side effect of snappier results.

@semin-park semin-park added the C-enhancement Category: Improvements label Jan 4, 2023
@kirawi kirawi added the A-helix-term Area: Helix term improvements label Jan 4, 2023
@pascalkuthe pascalkuthe self-assigned this Jan 18, 2023
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