Search content, complete with file name

[fingolfin19]

I want to search files for content or symbols and turn the command into a complete command, but with the file name for the selected result instead of the full result. Is the best way to do that:

require("fzf-lua").fzf_exec({"foo", "bar"}, {
   complete = function(selected, opts, line, col)
    ----------------------------
    -- Parse selection  to strip it of everything but file name
    ----------------------------
    -- then:
    local newline = line:sub(1, col) .. selected[1]
    return newline, #newline - 1
  end
})

edit: I've marked the answer that works for me (on Windows), but for Linux the solution in these comments might be cleaner:

#1151 (comment)
#1151 (comment)

[ibhagwan]

• Not sure how you’re extracting the file name but you can use path.file_to_entry
• The code is completing the line with the selection and setting the cursor to after the completion, this seems like the desirable behavior to me, if that’s what you’re after I don’t think there’s a better way.

[fingolfin19]

I found this, which is probably a better description of what I want: https://superuser.com/questions/1632357/how-do-i-configure-fzf-to-return-only-a-specific-field-of-the-selected-line.

ps -fe | fzf --bind 'enter:become(echo {2})'

ps -fe | fzf -m --bind 'enter:become(echo {+2})'

I will see if I can get working with fzf-lua's options.

[ibhagwan]

I will see if I can get working with fzf-lua's options.

You can either pass these directly using fzf_cli_args, use keymap.fzf['enter']

[fingolfin19]

❯ ls | fzf --bind 'enter:become(echo {2})'
become action is not supported on Windows

Welp. Back to parsing the result in the complete function then.

edit: btw, thank you so much for getting fzflua working on Windows. Been wishing for that for a long time.

[ibhagwan]

Fzf doesn’t like windows lol

[ibhagwan]

FYI, fzf 0.51 was just released with:

become action is now supported on Windows

[fingolfin19]

Great timing for me 😄