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!
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.