feature request: Allow deleting lines in file buffer by removing lines in qf buffer

[xzbdmw]

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Describe the feature

This can be similar to cdo norm! dd but only doing this for the items which are missing from original qflist lines.

Provide background

Many times I'm deleting the lines in qflist buffer hoping it to just delete those lines (usually debug statement) in the file, but found that did not work, and by cdo norm! dd I need to carefully choose which are left in qflist to not delete unrelated lines. This is an inverse mental model feels unintuitive.

Maybe an extra action to delete is enough, people can bind that action to dd, and still use g/filename/d to remove unwanted lines.

What is the significance of this feature?

nice to have

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[idbrii]

Coming from quickfix-reflector, it's nice to be able to delete lines in the qf to ignore them when doing :s. You can :g/bad/d a few times to filter out irrelevant lines and then :s/ to modify what's left. quicker currently supports this workflow because deleting lines removes them from consideration.

by cdo norm! dd I need to carefully choose which are left in qflist to not delete unrelated lines. This is an inverse mental model feels unintuitive.

You're describing something like "list the lines that I want to delete and then delete them", right?

:grep somepattern
:v/Log/d
:write
:cdo norm! dd

Maybe an extra action to delete is enough, people can bind that action to dd

Try this dd keymap in your quicker config:

local quicker = require("quicker")
quicker.setup({
        -- ...
        on_qf = function(bufnr)
            vim.b.detectindent_has_tried_to_detect = 1
            vim.keymap.set('n', 'dd', function()
                vim.o.lazyredraw = true
                vim.cmd.normal{vim.api.nvim_replace_termcodes('<CR>', true, true, true), bang = true}
                vim.cmd.delete()
                vim.cmd.normal{vim.api.nvim_replace_termcodes('<C-o>', true, true, true), bang = true}
                vim.cmd.wincmd("p")
                vim.o.lazyredraw = false
            end, {
                buffer = true,
            })
    end,
})

[xzbdmw]

Thanks, will try!