Neovim @sopuli.xyz promitheas @iusearchlinux.fyi 1y ago

Making telescope.nvim find_files show hidden files by default - Following ThePrimeagen's guide

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!

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If you have fd installed, telescope uses it's settings including ignore files (including .ignore and .gitignore etc). So if have the default settings for fd to show hidden files, telescope will respect that.

Otherwise, if you want to have hidden files only in telescope without changing the default behavior of fd , when using your key binding, change it as follows:

vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader>ff", function() builtin.find_files({hidden=true}) end, {})

Edit: Change to keybind format Edit2: Wrap builtin in function call
- 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 any fd command, and I'm not aware of anything extra that I added to nvim called fd.
  
  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 the builtin.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 of
  
  find . -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 default find_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!

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