make CTRL-T work with directories outside the current one

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make CTRL-T work with directories outside the current one #3860

Closed backpropper closed 3 months ago

backpropper commented 3 months ago

Checklist

[X] I have read through the manual page (man fzf)
[X] I have searched through the existing issues
[x] For bug reports, I have checked if the bug is reproducible in the latest version of fzf

Output of `fzf --version`

0.52.1

OS

[ ] Linux
[X] macOS
[ ] Windows
[ ] Etc.

Shell

[ ] bash
[X] zsh
[ ] fish

Problem / Steps to reproduce

Let's assume I am in directory /dirA. There is also a /dirB.

Very often there are case where I want to use FZF's CTRL-T to search relative to dirB although I am currently inside dirA.

For example,

cd /dirA ... cd /dirB

(search for /dirA/foo/) How on earth can I achieve that? My CTRL-T is set to toggling with single key as described [here](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#toggling-with-a-single-key-binding). P.S.: I'm able to search for Files outside of dirB here but not directories.

LangLangBart commented 3 months ago

I assume you're relying on fd to list entries in fzf. Did you experiment with the --search-path flag in fd?

print -D $PWD
# ~/Developer/fzf/bin

fd --search-path ../doc --search-path .
./fzf-preview.sh
./fzf-tmux
../doc/fzf.txt

Combined with the reload action, you should be able to accomplish your goal.

fzf --bind 'ctrl-b:reload:fd --search-path ../doc --search-path .'

junegunn commented 3 months ago

I suggest that you use fuzzy completion instead for that purpose.

vim /dirA/**<TAB>

See https://github.com/junegunn/fzf?tab=readme-ov-file#fuzzy-completion-for-bash-and-zsh

Since you're using zsh, also see https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/Configuring-fuzzy-completion#dedicated-completion-key