Q&A: Open file at the exact line

[zivkovicn]

Hello, recently I switched from telescope to fzf-lua, I'm loving it!

Just one thing, I'm unable to achive, some some advice fould be appreciated.

Is it possible to open file at the exact file number, let me explain:

• usually I copy paste some file path with name and file number from failing tests and that looks like this path/fileName.go:40:21
• if I paste this in the prompt while searching files - I don't get the results, b/c the parser doesn't know what to do with the :

From the screenshot below:

my expectation is that I can open file fzf-lua.lua at the 3rd line and position the cursor 23 character

(another screenshot just for clarification - without line number)

Any suggestion is appreciated. Thank you

[ibhagwan]

Duplicate of #1384.

[ibhagwan]

usually I copy paste some file path with name and file number from failing tests and that looks like this path/fileName.go:40:21

This can only work while fuzzy matching grep results, emphasis not “live” grep, live searches only file contents and uses a regex so the : will only match if the line contents contains :.

If you want to look for matches like that you can use :FzfLua grep search='' (similar to grep_ project with fuzzy matching on the file name/line/col).

Note this will not work with :FzfLua files and other pickers that do not display line numbers, as there is nothing to match against the :.

[zivkovicn]

I see, thank you for quick answer! :)