Freeze when I try to active some options about muren.nvim

[t1gu1]

It seems to happend only if I wrote a patterns or replacement before I toggle the dir or files option.

[t1gu1]

Oh, directly when I active dir option and I write something in the patterns, it freeze too.

[t1gu1]

I finally find why.

My project is too "big" and it search everywhere.
I simply change the files argument to: src/**/* and it was ok.

Is there a way to exclude files?
Like /ios/Pods/,/vendor/bundle/,.history,node_modules,dist,.git,build/

[AckslD]

Hi @t1gu1, if you're doing recursive replacements in a directory it can be useful to disable preview while typing the replacements and setting the options since that will do the replacements for each keystroke.

[AckslD]

Regarding your question to exclude files, currently muren calls out to :vimgrep but maybe we can optionally instead call :grep which the user can configure to use rg or anything and custom configs to ignore eg .gitignore.

But the syntax for patterns for both the search-term and files would then potentially have to be different.

[t1gu1]

Considering the .gitignore file would be a nice enhancement.
I would'nt had any issues with that.

---

---

Some Ideas

---

Maybe it could be an idea to remove de default value of the files options.

• When there is nothing, it will list all the files except the one in the .gitignore with that command git ls-files.
• If the git ls-files list nothing, it will default to the */**

You can try it with a: vimgrep thingsToSearch `git ls-files` | cw

---

Maybe add a call to action to make the search?
e.g. when you pass from insert mode to normal mode it call the search.

In the options, it could have a live preview option instead of a preview and the preview could be always on with the call action.