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Solution for inserting a filename to a buffer using recursive fuzzy search? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by geza42@alien.top to c/emacs@communick.news
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Is there a solution for inserting a filename to a buffer (either to a normal buffer, or to the minibuffer) using a recursive fuzzy search, using the vertico + consult + corfu + cape ecosystem? Something like what consult-file does, but instead of opening the selected file, insert the path of it to a buffer.

We have cape-file, but it doesn't fuzzy search in a recursive way.

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[–] geza42@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

For minibuffer completion, I created this, kind of works, but if there is an already developed, fully working solution, I'd rather use that. And I'm still interested in for a solution to use in a normal buffer that corfu could use.

(defun my-consult-fd-string (&optional dir initial)
  (interactive "P")
  (setq this-command 'consult-fd)
  (pcase-let* ((`(,prompt ,paths ,dir) (consult--directory-prompt "Fd" dir))
	   (default-directory dir)
	   (builder (consult--fd-make-builder paths)))
(concat dir (consult--find prompt builder initial))))

(defun my-consult-insert-fd-string ()
  (interactive)
  (insert
   (abbreviate-file-name
(let ((f (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'filename)))
  (if f
      (let ((r (my-consult-fd-string (buffer-substring-no-properties (car f) (cdr f)) nil)))
	(delete-region (car f) (cdr f))
	r)
    (my-consult-fd-string t nil))))))
(define-key minibuffer-local-map (kbd "M-f") 'my-consult-insert-fd-string)
[–] sleekelite@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like if I understood embark it would do that.

[–] oantolin@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It does do that. If you have embark-act bound to C-., then C-. i inserts the current minibuffer completion candidate into the buffer from which you ran the command that opened the minibuffer.