File Picker / How do load file from current dir?

[Robert-M-Muench]

When I start HX from any location and call the file picker, it only shows files from subdirectories but not the working directory.

Typing in the filename of a file from the working directory, gives an empty list. Using the :open command, I can see the files from the working directory. That's inconsistent.

Is this is a bug or an intended behavior?

[Robert-M-Muench]

The problem seems that the file picker shows 8192 files at maximum. My folder has 10399 files.

The huge number of files is because of nodes_modules How to best ignore these files? Or even better, is there an option to toggle if the nodes_modules folder is searched or not?

[Robert-M-Muench]

Well, that's a pretty heavy hack. Any plans/issues to improve file picker's behavior?

It would be cool to use something like https://github.com/Canop/broot (done in Rust too).

[kirawi]

It's currently planned as a plugin #200
But I was thinking of also having VSCode-like behaviour in which one can ignore files from the file picker: #280 (comment)

[kirawi]

Seems like if there's a .git folder present, the file picker doesn't have a 8192 file limit.

[Robert-M-Muench]

Ok, going to try that.

[dylrich]

If you don't want to use .gitignore, you can use a plain .ignore file in your working directory as well.