rewriting user queries / allow specifying alternate delimiters

[bhuntpenn]

Hi all, I program in the Elixir programming language. Elixir has a naming convention for modules, which I'll illustrate.

Module name : Users.Pipelines.ValidateUser.Context
File name : ./lib/users/pipelines/validate_user/context.ex

Now, if I launch fzf -i and search for Users.Pipelines.ValidateUser.Context, no results are shown.
But, if I launch fzf -i and search for Users Pipelines ValidateUser Context, the following result is (correctly) shown:

 ./lib/users/pipelines/validate_user/context.ex

That's great; at least I know where to go from here. However, I don't know if either of the following is possible:

1. fzf to ignore '.' characters or use them as stopwords.
2. A hook so that when the string Users.Pipelines.ValidateUser.Context is pasted into the fzf search, it is re-written to Users Pipelines ValidateUser Context.

From reading the docs, I don't think either is possible, but perhaps someone with more experience could confirm this for me?

Thanks,

Bryan

[tg0h]

as a workaround, could you just search for the filename and content, presumably, the string Users.Pipelines.ValidateUser.Context is in the file users/pipelines/validate_user/context.ex ...

sample code to search for filename and contents can be found here https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/Examples#searching-file-contents

fzf code from screenshot here (i bind this to a keyboard shortcut)

#!bin/zsh
# search for filename and file contents
# edits the file after picking the fzf entry
# uses ripgrep (rg) and bat

function fzf-filename-and-content(){
  # searches for the filename and its contents in <dir>
  # <dir> defaults to cwd if none provided

  local dir=$1

  local fzfEntry=$(rg --follow --line-number --with-filename . $dir --color=always --field-match-separator ' '\
    | fzf --preview "bat --color=always {1} --highlight-line {2}" \
    --preview-window ~8,+{2}-5)

  if [ -n "$fzfEntry" ]; then
    local file lineNumber
    read -r file lineNumber _ <<< $fzfEntry
    nvim $file +$lineNumber -c 'normal! zz'
  fi
}

[bhuntpenn]

That's pretty clever and an approach I didn't consider. I'll snarf that code if you don't mind and use it as an alternative approach. Thanks!