Open global search on the current buffer directory

[rochacbruno]

Hi,

There is a way to open file_picker_in_current_buffer_directory which I mapped to fb and is very helpful because it loads faster than f/F if I know I want a file from the very same dir.

This is specially powerful in the situation like:

cd
~$/ helix ~/.config/helix/config.toml

In the above example the CWD is /home/user but the file opened is on a subdirectory

with that file opened if I do / to open global_search an type a very common token such as a and hit enter.

Helix hangs for almost 10 minutes (in my system) because it tries to fuzzy find on my entire /home/user directory

What I wanted?

Ability to map global_search_in_current_buffer_directory so the fuzzy finder would index and search only child nodes from that directory.

Workaround

I tried to map a chain of commands like

<space>fs = [":cd CURRENT_BUFFER_DIR", "global_search", "cd RESTORE_LATEST_CWD"]

However I don´t know how to fill CURRENT_BUFFER_DIR and RESTORE_LATEST_CWD

I appreciate any suggestion

[David-Else]

[keys.normal.space]
"." = "file_picker_in_current_buffer_directory"

[rochacbruno]

Thanks @David-Else I am already mapping this command, but I am looking for similar command for the global search

[pascalkuthe]

I mean that would just be search / a picker doesn't really make too much sense since the global search picker just matches on filenames (but in this case all filenames are the same)

[rochacbruno]

@pascalkuthe the global search <space>/ searches for a term in all the files in the working directory, what I am looking for is to scope the search to the current buffer dir only

[the-mikedavis]

@pascalkuthe and I chatted about this and we don't want to end up with a bunch of variants of each picker command per-scope (i.e. global_search_in_workspace, global_search_in_current_working_directory, global_search_in_current_buffer_directory). Rather we think variables and typable commands are probably the best way to handle this, so we would have :global-search in the workspace, :global-search %{cwd} for current working directory and :global-search %{dirname} to handle these cases with variable expansions, which should be keymappable. We will need variable expansion and, for global_search specifically, the refactor for #196 to make this possible.