Hey guys, I’m following the tutorial above, and in his video he doesn’t do anything specific to show hidden files, but it works for him. My .config/nvim/after/plugin/telescope.lua
file looks like this: I’ve looked up solutions but they all use a different syntax, and none work for me. Any idea how I can make the find_files command also show hidden files by using this syntax? Thanks!
Hey, I only just had the time to try this out. I edited it as you suggested, but I still get an error when I
:so
after writing the file. Also, I don’t have anyfd
command, and I’m not aware of anything extra that I added to nvim calledfd
.You will need to wrap the third argument to keymap.set in a function, like so:
vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>ff", function() builtin.find_files({hidden=true}) end, {})
This seems to work, but for some reason when I do it, it gives me a massive list of all files (recursively) in the directory I ran nvim from. So if I run it in home, its going to be a massive list
Sorry, I missed the previous message. Glad you got it working with the help of @rewire@programming.dev.
Regarding the massive list, yeah that is expected. If you haven’t got fd or rg installed in you system, telescope falls back to regular
find
. Find doesn’t have any sort of builtin ignore list, so it just lists all the files. If you are using thebuiltin.find_files
normally, I think it executes (at least something close to)find -not -path "*/.*" -type f
With the
hidden=true
, it does something along the lines offind . -type f
Both of these commands are executed from the
cwd
(normally the directory you started nvim in). If you want it only show to a certain depth, you can use the telescope’s setup to change the defaultfind_command
telescope.setup({ pickers = { find_files = { find_command = { "find", "-maxdepth", "3", ".", "-type", "f"}, }, }, }
Modify that to your requirement and then use the keymap to call
builtin.find_files()
and it should work.Hey, its me, 300 years after your initial reply :3
I installed
fd
and it seems to be working great now. Thanks for the tip!