Wishlist

[kkharji]

Here we can post ideas of features, improvement and new pickers.

Later we can further refine an idea and update progress on it or link it to a more detailed "enhancement/feature issue", or even reference the comment in a PR.

Try to leave discussions out of here, but if necessary or your have something in mind post it then mark your replies and mentions as out of scope to keep the Wishlist clean.

[kkharji]

Feature: combine pickers #213 . I agree with @wbthomason , I think its really useful in cases where you want to combine things like

• quickfix + loclist
• old_files + buffers
• dotfiles + nvim + bin files ...

[kkharji]

Enhancement: add additional parameter to determine the depth of a given cwd #176 . Useful when you want to set the cwd but you don't want to go further than 2 levels

[kkharji]

Feature: Create a picker for vista. First suggested by tj in #138

[kkharji]

Idea: with actions._goto_file_selection(prompt_bufnr, command) if no entry, instead of print("[telescope] Nothing currently selected") edit any way, sometime I'd like to create a file if it doesn't exists. If only I can get what is typed in the prompt I can make an opt :D

[tjdevries]

documentation generator :)

[sunjon]

A lot of the ideas here are relocated(prioritized?) existing issues.

The ability to scroll through the search results is a frequent pain for me. I don't think fuzzy finders are intended to filter results down to 5-10 items; Often the choice is offscreen due to sorting, and knowing it exists momentarily via a page-down, is enough for me to make the descision to edit the query further or press "down" a couple of times, as I already know further refinement wouldn't be that useful.

[weilbith]

Yank history

[sunjon]

Yank history

Yank history could be a wrapper around existing functionality in something like nvim-miniyank, but I personally don't think Telescope should do the legwork itself.

What could be possible is a vim-peekaboo-a-like, showing the contents of registers and possibly a couple of actions you can perform on them.

EDIT: registers finder now available via ("telescope.builtin").registers with a default Paste/Put() action.

[sharksforarms]

:Telescope colorscheme could display a preview with the selected scheme and the current bufffer

[weilbith]

Allow to configure :drop as default action on files.

[sunjon]

An autocommands finder would be practical:

[group] | [event] | [pattern] |  [commands..........]

semi-related to this:

• the ability to pre-populate the query. Maybe with <cword> and such
• the ability to refine the search with something to specify fields. For this to be possible, Telescope would have to have more of a concept of "fields" than the few finders that use a | delimiter. a cut like -f parameter perhaps.
• If we were to introduce query parameters as mentioned above, perhaps notation like ! and ^ and $ would be useful, without the need for a full regex search

[cempassi]

A digraph picker. See :digraph to see the available ones. Really useful for us in Europe or Japan. But that may more be in completion territory, so I'm not sure

[ZacharyRizer]

A wrapper or choice to use FZF as the default for things like find files and grep. I'm loving Telescope, but fzf is still quite a bit faster in my experience ( or maybe just more async to not have perceived freezing on big directory searches).

[clason]

:messages? with actions for visual selecting lines for copying etc?

[sunjon]

• The autocmd preview shows everything in the group, then highlights the active selection,
  I think all highlights should be shown in a table, and 'preview-selection' jumps to the active result

• A Finder for available/installed luarocks packages.

[aca]

Feature Request

• After :Telescope find_Files, select multiple files and open all in buffers / split / tab (simliar to fzf.vim)

[ndavidpsi]

• Add :Telescope media_Files, it would search for files with media extensions (videos and images) and instead of opening the raw content of a file it would simply launch an external media player to load the file

[ndavidpsi]

• Add :help Telescope

[elianiva]

• Add :Telescope media_Files, it would search for files with media extensions (videos and images) and instead of opening the raw content of a file it would simply launch an external media player to load the file

I would also love an option where if you open a binary file that's not supposed to be opened in neovim like png/jpg/webp, it will use xdg-open or just exits without opening anything. It's kinda annoying when I accidentally opened an image and it opens a buffer filled with those garbled weird texts.

[sharksforarms]

Snippet discover-ability: Using telescope to list available snippets and select one to expand (using completion source?)

[elianiva]

• Add :Telescope media_Files, it would search for files with media extensions (videos and images) and instead of opening the raw content of a file it would simply launch an external media player to load the file

I would also love an option where if you open a binary file that's not supposed to be opened in neovim like png/jpg/webp, it will use xdg-open or just exits without opening anything. It's kinda annoying when I accidentally opened an image and it opens a buffer filled with those garbled weird texts.

I think it would be really cool if telescope can use ueberzug as a previewer for image files, though it might get messed up if we jump between files too fast and the rendering might be slow on larger images. Other case is if we're trying to find an image, it will switch between files too quickly because with the current behaviour, the first item gets selected and showed in preview window. I'm thinking of not previewing the image unless you press a mapping that confirms you want to see the image.

Since ueberzug spawns a child window, the previewer doesn't need to be a terminal, it can be a regular buffer. I found an interesting repo that does this. https://github.com/heapslip/vimage.nvim
I've tried it myself and seeing Neovim "draws" an image blows my mind 😆 (technically ueberzug did it, but it draws it inside Neovim which I've never seen before).

I don't know how hard it is to implement, it's just a random thought at 1 AM because I couldn't sleep 😆

[sethidden]

<CR> in :Telescope git_branches doesn't switch to the branch if it doesn't already exist in the output of git branch

eg.

$ git branch
* my_branch
   some_other

in nvim: :Telescope git_branches<CR> "select some branch that is not one of the two above and press CR

$ git branch 
* my_branch
   some_other
# nothing changed

However if you pressed <cr> on some_other in the finder, it'd check out normally

fzf-checkout.vim has two different actions - checkout to headless and checkout and track remote branch (enter and alt-enter respectively)
https://github.com/stsewd/fzf-checkout.vim#features

[quantum-booty]

Fuzzy search a programming language's function signatures and their doc strings. idk if this is in the realm of a language server but it would be a nice feature.

[Conni2461]

Hey everybody,

we are closing the wishlist because it became a nightmare to manage.
We get bug reports and feature requests in the same issue and can't really chat about them because we tried to keep this issue as clean as possible. In addition, we also have a hard time knowing what feature requests are being worked on.

So we ask that you check to see if your request has been fulfilled, if not, check to see if an issue already exists, and if that's not the case either, open one using the new feature request template.

If you have questions about a telescope feature, you can reach us at gitter. We currently have many features and options undocumented and we are working on a way to generate vim documentation here #370.