Telescope live grep args

Live grep args picker for telescope.nvim.

What it does

It enables passing arguments to the grep command, rg examples:

• --no-ignore foo
• "foo bar" bazdir

Installation

Packer

Add telescope-live-grep-args.nvim as telescope.nvim dependency, e.g.:

use {
    "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim",
    requires = {
        { "nvim-telescope/telescope-live-grep-args.nvim" }
    }
}

Usage

Load the extension

require("telescope").load_extension("live_grep_args")

Then call or map this command

:lua require("telescope").extensions.live_grep_args.live_grep_args()

Grep argument examples:

prompt	args
foo bar	foo bar
"foo bar" baz	foo bar, baz
--no-ignore "foo bar	--no-ignore, foo bar

If the prompt value does not begin with ', " or - the entire prompt is treatet as a single argument. This behaviour can be turned off by setting the auto_quoting option to false.

Configuration

local telescope = require("telescope")
telescope.setup {
  extensions = {
    live_grep_args = {
      auto_quoting = true, -- enable/disable auto-quoting
    }
  }
}

Development

Running the tests

• Clone plenary.nvim next to this repo
• make test

Acknowledgements

Based on the idea of this pull request.