Finding hidden (dotfiles) using Telescope in neovim

waylonwalker

Waylon Walker

Posted on December 26, 2021

Finding hidden (dotfiles) using Telescope in neovim

Finding hidden files using Telescope as you fuzzy file finder is not too hard, its a single flag passed in. Then it will use whichever file finder it can find ['fd', 'fdfind', 'rg --files', 'find', or 'where'] in that order. These tools each have their own way of handling hidden files, but telescope takes care of that so all you need to do is pass in hidden=true.

I have this keymap set to help me list out all files including hidden files using the pnumonic go edit hidden. I use ge for quite a few different things to take me directly to a specific file or picker.

nnoremap geh <cmd>Telescope find_files hidden=true<cr>
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see the implementation telescope finds your files.


This is a part of my til project, I am trying to post daily tils. Here's the full feed https://waylonwalker.com/til/.

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waylonwalker
Waylon Walker

Posted on December 26, 2021

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