How to remove weird prompt prefix for Snacks.picker.todo_comments()

[valterschutz]

Hi!

I've enabled both snacks.picker and todo-comments with only default configuration. However, when I open the todo picker, I get a weird prefix before the prompt:

It seems to contain the alternative text for each keyword, but when I remove all alternative texts it instead shows the keywords (like "TODO", "NOTE", etc).

I would like a simple prompt like "> ", just like all the other pickers have by default.

I've tried searching through the source code for both snacks and todo-comments but can't find where this prefix is set.

[drowning-cat]

-- Variant 1. Hidden `search`, can be toggled with `<C-g>`
vim.schedule(function()
  local input = require 'snacks.picker.core.input'
  local statuscolumn = input.statuscolumn
  input.statuscolumn = function(self)
    if self.picker.opts.no_status == true then
      return ' '
    else
      return statuscolumn(self)
    end
  end
end)

-- Variant 2. Appears permanently after toggling the live mode twice with `<C-g>`
vim.schedule(function()
  local live, live_changed
  local input = require 'snacks.picker.core.input'
  local statuscolumn = input.statuscolumn
  input.statuscolumn = function(self)
    local opts = self.picker.opts
    if not live_changed then
      live_changed = live ~= nil and live ~= opts.live
      live = opts.live
    end
    return (not live_changed and opts.no_status) and ' ' or statuscolumn(self)
  end
end)

Snacks.picker.todo_comments { no_status = true }

[drowning-cat]

Change from:

return ' '

To:

return '%#SnacksPickerPrompt# %*'

[dpetka2001]

Better to just do a simple grep then instead of this. The picker is prefilled with the keywords of todo-comments (that's why you see the prompt you mention) so that they are used as the search pattern for grep either way and then be able to further filter in non-live mode upon the contents of the lines that contain them.

[drowning-cat]

He wants the telescope style — filtered, but without a visible search:

I think it's fine to hide this information, since it can still be accessed after switching the mode with <C-g>.

[drowning-cat]

@valterschutz Though it's ok to hide the alternate search for a specific picker, it's not ideal for all use cases. See #1990 (comment), #957 (comment) to understand the live mode.

But if you insist on applying it to all pickers, you can set opts.picker.no_status = true, and it should work.

[dpetka2001]

It's fine if you don't want to have visual confirmation about what you're searching for. The prompt changes according to what opts.keywords you pass to the picker.

Each to his own preferences I guess.