Better *initial* global search UI

[KittyBorgX]

The global search, when invoked by SPACE + e looks very similar to the normal search apart from the global-search text in front of the slash. To make the user experience better, here is my suggestion:

Making a telescope like menu, similar to Open file picker (SPACE + f) in helix and keep the searching option there. This looks similar to Find Files of Telescope in Neovim.

Implementation : I'm willing to take this up and open a pr if this idea gets upvoted / approved :)

[archseer]

Making a telescope like menu, similar to Open file picker (SPACE + f) in helix and keep the searching option there. This looks similar to Find Files of Telescope in Neovim.

Can you explain the difference? I don't understand, given that I've never used telescope.nvim.

[KittyBorgX]

Sure!

At the moment, it [helix] looks somewhat like this :

My proposal is to make it look something like this:

The major difference is incremental updating of search results. The implementation idea of mine was to copy the code for the File picker in helix (SPACE + f) and use it for the global search. It looks nicer and feels more user friendly :)

Edit : To give a bit more clarity, helix does show it in a similar fashion as shown in the below image, however, it displays this only after the user presses ENTER after searching for the phrase through SPACE + /

My suggestion was to make the entire process of searching consistent like how I mentioned above

[the-mikedavis]

This sounds like #196, no?

[KittyBorgX]

Yep! 😅
I forgot to check for the same in the open issues since I only searched for it in the discussions and closed issues. My bad!

[KittyBorgX]

This sounds like #196, no?

Yep, Duplicate of #196, my bad!