Have mini.pick help open help files in vertical split by default

[diego-velez]

Basically the title.

I tried this, but got some weird behavior.

        require('mini.pick').builtin.help({}, {
          mappings = {
            choose = '',
            choose_in_vsplit = '<CR>',
          },
        })

[Rishabh672003]

local vert_help = function(selected_item)
  vim.api.nvim_win_call(MiniPick.get_picker_state().windows.target, function()
    vim.cmd("vert help ".. selected_item.name)
	MiniPick.set_picker_target_window(vim.api.nvim_get_current_win())
    return true
  end)
end
MiniPick.builtin.help({}, { source = { choose = vert_help } })

[echasnovski]

This is one way to do it. Although needs MiniPick.set_picker_target_window(vim.api.nvim_get_current_win()) call before return true for help window to be in focus after picking.

It also seems like a lot of code for what looks like a reasonable workflow. I am thinking about adding special option for default split direction.

[echasnovski]

On the latest main there is now default_split local option. So now making <CR> open in vertical split is as easy as :Pick help default_split='vertical'. Thanks for the great question!

[diego-velez]

That was fast! You're a legend 😎