Allowing normal mode

[Jan Damm]

Is there a way to use this commandline in normal mode?

Would be nice to be able to use normal mode to modify the command. Pressing ESC twice would then close the prompt.

[Heiker]

So the input uses a special type of buffer called "prompt buffer", in neovim 0.5 and 0.6 this is very buggy. I think they fixed in 0.7 or merge a patch to fix some bugs. So you might have some weird behavior when you go back to insert mode.

It could still be done by adding a keybinding.

require('fine-cmdline').setup({
  hooks = {
    set_keymaps = function(imap)
      local fn = require('fine-cmdline').fn

      imap('<Esc>', function() vim.cmd('stopinsert') end)
      imap('<Esc><Esc>', fn.close)
    end
  }
})

[Jan Damm]

Thanks, I'll try that.
It works for telescope - thought they'd use the prompt buffer as well 🤷‍♂️

[Jan Damm]

Sorry, haven't been able to test this earlier.
It's working mostly fine. But I'm not able to close the prompt with <ESC> when I'm in normal mode.
It only works from insert mode since it's only a chord mapping in insert and not a normal mode mapping for <ESC> to close the prompt.

But it's fine if you don't want to support it at the current time. Maybe it works nicer with 0.7 and could then be an official feature 👍

[Heiker]

I want to support normal mode when I see prompt buffers are fixed in a stable version.

Anyway, you can create your own mappings in normal mode, using the built-in function vim.api.nvim_buf_set_keymap. With this in the set_keymaps hook you can close the prompt from normal mode.

local nmap = function(...) vim.api.nvim_buf_set_keymap(0,'n', ...) end
local opts = {noremap = true, silent = true}
nmap('<Esc>', ":lua require('fine-cmdline').fn.close()<CR>", opts)