Reverse (mirrored) layout for picker results: show items from top to bottom

[wookayin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The results window of the picker displays the first, top-score item matched in the bottom, like the following screenshot:

even when I set layout_config.prompt_position = 'top'.

But this bottom-to-top order doesn't make much sense if one want to place the prompt in the top area. What I would like to achieve is to have a 'reverse' layout (what should I call it exactly?) similar to this (fzf --layout=reverse):

i.e., the first matched item appears in the top (closer to the prompt).

Describe the solution you'd like

Please add a configuration point to allow such a 'reverse' or 'mirrored' layout for the picker.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• layout_config.mirror: true -> This does not apply. It only flips between previewer and picker. (:help telescope.layout)

Additional context

FZF, for example, has an option for this:

let $FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS = ' --layout=reverse'

[Conni2461]

:help telescope.defaults.sorting_strategy

[wookayin]

My bad I missed that option. What I needed is:

defaults = {
   ...
   sorting_strategy = 'ascending',            -- default is 'descending'
   ...
}

I was searching the documentation, googling for around 20 mins but unable to find it ...... because it is named differently in telescope's world. (Should we improve the doc?) Thank you for the help, and I hope this issue will be helpful for somebody like me in the future.

[Conni2461]

Maybe finally writing this wiki entry: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/wiki/Switching-from-fzf-to-telescope

[kirillrogovoy]

Just wanted to add that I've also just spent 15-20 minutes to find this solution. And most of that was actually reading parts of :help telescope 😅