File picker shows every file on the file system and is extremely slow to open

[AddictArts]

Is there anyway to make it work like a normal file viewer, now all files, but folder based?

[dead10ck]

See #1707 and #200

[AddictArts]

Thanks, this is unfortunate. Example editing a .zshrc in your home dir, file picker is really pointless or un-usable. This behavior makes sense in a small project, but anything big it is just noise, lots of noise and slow, very very slow.

I am not trying to down on Helix. But, when evaluating a new editor and tool chain, I'm not in the context of a project and arguably a small one at that. I tend to edit a conf here or there. Open a single language file and check out how it works with it. The behavior is surprising and not in a good way.

[dead10ck]

Yeah, I would like it too. There is an open PR that implements it #2377