Improve live_grep

[otavioschwanck]

Recently i migrated from emacs to vim, im loving the performance, etc.

But i missing something crucial: The project text finder is a little weak and too poluted.

Here is a comparassion:

Searching stableCoin on project and filtering for filename that contains sol (you can divide the search with #)

Emacs:

Neovim:

On telescope, it repeats the file a lot of times., make it poluted.
On telescope i cannot filter by filename (i have to use grep_string with search=)

Emacs: Doom Emacs default search

[ghost]

It seems like string_grep and live_grep have the two halves to what we want; they're just not put together.

String_grep greps for an initial term and the results can be filtered by typing additional terms in the telescope prompt, but string_grep takes only the word under cursor for the initial term; you can't enter it on command line or in Telescope prompt. live_grep lets you enter the initial term but you can't narrow the results by typing in additional terms.

The way it works on Emacs (at least with consult-ripgrep, which is what I used), is that you can type in the initial term in the prompt, then the command seamlessly accepts any additional terms as filters on the initial results.

edit: This gets pretty close to the Emacs way, though you don't get any preview or completion with the initial input term: require ('telescope.builtin.files').grep_string({search = vim.fn.input("Search term: ")})

[tapayne88]

I wanted something like this, so I use the telescope-rg extension which gives you access to rg.

Now to search for stableCoin and filtering for filename that contains sol I'd do

stableCoin -t sol

or perhaps

stableCoin -g *.sol

You can get pretty advanced with the glob matching so you can exclude tests with -g !**/tests/** etc. Everything you can do with ripgrep.

Another example searching in my dotfiles

[otavioschwanck]

I wanted something like this, so I use the telescope-rg extension which gives you access to rg.

Now to search for stableCoin and filtering for filename that contains sol I'd do

stableCoin -t sol

or perhaps

stableCoin -g *.sol

You can get pretty advanced with the glob matching so you can exclude tests with -g !**/tests/** etc. Everything you can do with ripgrep.

Another example searching in my dotfiles

Telescope rg is OK, but still not good enough.

1- I can't separate the search with space unless i put 'my search'
2 - I have to remember the *file*sol exactly to works
3 - I have to put the search in order, if i want to find: 'senior token', on emacs e can put 'token senior' and it will get it, that easy.

[mildavw]

I was looking for the same functionality and found: https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua

The command is live_grep_glob() and it seems to give you what you want with stableCoin<C-g>sol

[otavioschwanck]

I was looking for the same functionality and found: https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua

The command is live_grep_glob() and it seems to give you what you want with stableCoin<C-g>sol

This is exactly what i want for telescope!

[Conni2461]

You can now refine your live grep search and move to a fuzzy environment with <c-space>. Can be configured see #2034

[rsdenijs]

@Conni2461 That is awesome. I think this feature should be advertised more prominently!