How to search for text in all files in a directory

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Somehow I couldn’t find anyone who’d even mentioned doing this, but it’s something I used all the time in vim and sorely missed in kakoune:

Using rg and fzf to jump to file contents!

After installing fzf.kak, add this to kakrc:

declare-user-mode fzf
map -docstring 'all file contents' global fzf a %{: fzf -kak-cmd %{evaluate-commands} -items-cmd %{rg --column --line-number --no-heading --color=never --smart-case ''} -filter %{sed -e 's/\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):.*/edit -existing \1 \2 \3/'}<ret>}

Now you can press ,fa and chaotically type characters until you find that one thing you were looking for.

Hopefully this makes the road to kakoune smoother for someone!

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Hi. There’s several options for you:

  • builtin grep command.
  • my variant of flygrep
  • fzf.kak supports interactive grepping inside file contents if skim is installed.

As for your fzf command, I’ve found it clever and added it to the plugin:

https://github.com/andreyorst/fzf.kak/blob/master/rc/modules/fzf-grep.kak

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I am astonished! Thank you so much for doing that!

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please test it. By default it uses grep so you’ll have to change fzf_grep_option to rg in order to use ripgrep

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Thanks, this is really amazing with bat! I started to use now the defer-example at the plug.kak that is about fzf.kak. (Small thing, the example has fzf_hihglight_cmd while I had to use fzf_highlight_command. I also added set-option global fzf_grep_command rg in there.)

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oh, sorry for that. I forgot to update plug.kak readme section after renaming options in fzf.kak. Should be fixed now