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Bhanuka Mallawaarachchi
Recently, I got curious about how Vim’s built-in commands handle file finding and navigation. Even though I was using modern fuzzy finding plugins at the time, I decided to explore Vim’s native mechanisms. To my surprise, I started enjoying the simpl...
Gokay BURUC
Full-Stack Developer
Alternatively you can use "ripgrep" to manage all these process. rg --files
rg --files
Other alternative is fd command.
fd
Good job. keep going!
Yeah rg --files is great and even faster. This one is more about navigating to files in a fuzzy manner using builtin vim features. vim's :find command find and open the file in vim all in one go :)
:find
Bhanuka Mallawaarachchi then maybe you can also add the map assignment to your command. For example i am using :
--INFO: select all ["<C-a>"] = { "<Esc>gg<S-v>G<CR>", desc = "Select All" },
to select all in normal mode in AstroNvim. This kind of assignments also can be useful for your command usages.
Gokay BURUC
Full-Stack Developer
Alternatively you can use "ripgrep" to manage all these process.
rg --filesOther alternative is
fdcommand.Good job. keep going!