[Picker] Is there a way to refine the search, like telescope or mini.pick?

[li0nr]

to refine I mean after we find X amount of results, then start narrowing the results down with new filters

[dpetka2001]

Press <c-g> to switch to fuzzy matching if you use the files or grep picker.

[brunobmello25]

this is an option to refine the results just once, but doesn't work when you want to refine results multiple times. For example, in telescope:

• grep for something
• press ctrl space and type something to refine your search, this will narrow your result list
• press ctrl space again and you can narrow down your search even more

[dpetka2001]

Can't you just pass multiple patterns in the fuzzy matcher? I would guess it's the same.

[folke]

Just do <c-g> once and add as many patterns sepearted by whitespace as you like to narrow it down.
You can always toggle again with <c-g> and further fine-tune the grep search as well.

[brunobmello25]

Got it! didn't realise that <c-g> expected multiple patterns separated by whitespaces. thanks for the help!

[li0nr]

but what if I want to insert just part of these files to a quick list?

[dpetka2001]

Just select the ones you want with <Tab> and then press <C-q> to send the selected to quickfixlist.

[brendensoares]

I couldn't find it in the docs, but through threads like this one I found that <ctrl-g> goes from the default live mode to non-live mode which allows you to search the grep results using each matches fields as listed in <meta-d> (meta aka alt). For example, file, pos, text, score, etc.

Hope this helps someone else.