romgrk / lister

An experimental Gtk-based fuzzy-finder (with support for neovim)

Lister - Fuzzy finder

This project is in alpha state. If you're interested and want to test it please do so. Be warned that it requires a particular setup, see requirements below.

This is a fuzzy picker interface that can be opened from any other application. It is meant to be used from within neovim.

Requirements

The current implementation relies on a lot of things. Cross-platformly opening a window over the active window is not an easy thing to do, but I will remove dependencies as I find solutions.

• nodejs
• Linux
• X11 && xdotool Gnome (either X11 or Wayland)
• xwininfo
• xprop
• fd
• C & C++ compiler (for node-fzy)
• gtk3, cairo, gobject-introspection (for node-gtk that creates the interface)

Install (for neovim)

Plug 'romgrk/lister', { 'do': 'npm install' }

Then define your mapping for :Lister. The server is started automatically, and you can control it with :ListerStart and :ListerStop.

How

The server always runs in the background. This allows to reduce the startup delay.

node src/index.js

Then, the client can send requests.

~/path/to/lister/bin/lister

For now, this is all highly experimental. The client sends queries by running fd -t f in the current directory to the server and that's it.