Fuzzy matching for grep picker

[WilsonOh]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do I enable fuzzy matching for the grep picker results? It seems like it only does exact word matches now so an input like "lineendings" wouldn't match "line_endings" for example. I would like to fuzzy search through the results, and only use exact match when the input is prefixed with "'" like in the fzf syntax.

I've looked through the documentation and I see that fuzzy matching is turned on by default, and fuzzy matching does work for pickers such as files, but for grep that's not the case. I've also looked through the opts for grep, but there doesn't seem to be any options pertaining to that.

Any help would be much appreciated! 🙏

[pkazmier]

As I understand it, when you open the grep picker, you are in live mode (see the lightning bolt icon), which means the text you enter at the prompt is sent to the grep program on your system. So, you'll want to enter a regular expression first to start getting a list of results. Then, you can press <c-g> to switch modes (notice the lightning bolt disappears and your regex is part of the prompt now) to the matcher where you can fuzzy find the results of that regular expression search.

[WilsonOh]

Thank you for the reply, that makes a lot of sense! I guess to achieve the behaviour I want I could search for . in live mode first to get every line and then match them with the fuzzy finder.

As a side note, is there a way to only grep the current buffer, similar to FzfLua grep_curbuf? From my understanding there are options to specify a list of directories, file patterns or open buffers but not specific buffers.

[tizot]

As a side note, is there a way to only grep the current buffer, similar to FzfLua grep_curbuf?

The picker Snacks.picker.lines() might be what you are looking for (fuzzy search in current buffer lines, not regex-based).

[vunhatchuong]

You can confirm what program it pipes into by using regex:

• Grep/Ripgrep: ^func.*\(.*\)$ matches line start with func and contains (, )
• fzf: 'function for exact match.