Question: How to make a copy of live_grep with fuzzy behaviour.

[luisiacc]

I have this doubt, I tried using grep_string, but it just doesn't do what I expect, for example if I have a text somewhere that says: class BalanceForm, if I write on the grep_string input BForm it does not find the BalanceForm text, so I would like to use a fuzzy version of live_grep, or at least change the behaviour of grep_string. I have installed the plugin telescope-fzy-native but doesn't seem to make a difference there.

[Conni2461]

The whole search query will be forwarded to ripgrep so it will never be fuzzy. Same applies to live_grep which forwards the each prompt to ripgrep after each keypress.
What you can do and i do this for small projects is, basically get all lines and let us do the sorting.

require'telescope.builtin'.grep_string{ shorten_path = true, word_match = "-w", only_sort_text = true, search = '' }

[luisiacc]

The whole search query will be forwarded to ripgrep so it will never be fuzzy. Same applies to live_grep which forwards the each prompt to ripgrep after each keypress.
What you can do and i do this for small projects is, basically get all lines and let us do the sorting.

require'telescope.builtin'.grep_string{ shorten_path = true, word_match = "-w", only_sort_text = true, search = '' }

Oh, this is actually the results that I want, but on a medium size project is really laggy, any way to make it faster ?

[Conni2461]

Yeah i know. Like it kills projects with the size of neovim or bigger. This #457 makes it snappier, but it has other problems. TJ said he was planing to picked it up tho. So you would need to wait a little bit longer until these performance issues are (hopefully) resolved :)

[gabrielbidula]

Is it possible to add the default config to the overridden grep_string?
ie:
nnoremap <c-f> <cmd>lua require'telescope.builtin'.grep_string{ shorten_path = true, word_match = "-w", only_sort_text = true, search = '' }<cr>
I would like to use the defaults or others:

vimgrep_arguments = {
   'rg',
   '--color=never',
   '--no-heading',
   '--with-filename',
   '--line-number',
   '--column',
   '--smart-case',
   '--ignore',
   '--hidden',
   '--fixed-strings',
 },