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Many command line tools can output a list of files, this is quite powerful. I often want to search for something, then open it from a fuzzy picker. This can be done with fzf in the terminal, but often I am already in vim and I want to open it inside my current session.
Telescope
how to pass a custom command to telescope
Telescope is the fuzzy file finder I use every day inside of neovim. Its pretty fantastic and easy to extent like this. This first example I am only passing in files from the current working directory by using ls.
:Telescope find_files find_command=ls
This brings up a normal Telescope picker with results from the ls command.
More arguments
how to pass a muli-argument command to telescope
Adding more arguments can be done by comma separating them as shown in the example below. This command will run the silver-searcher, search for all occurrences of nvim inside of a markdown file, and return only the file paths so Telescope can pick from them.
:Telescope find_files find_command=ag,nvim,--md,-l
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Waylon Walker
Waylon Walker | Sciencx (2021-12-28T17:02:15+00:00) Opening files in vim from output of command. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/12/28/opening-files-in-vim-from-output-of-command/
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