search_dirs argument not working?

This extension accepts the same options as builtin.live_grep, check out :help live_grep and :help vimgrep_arguments for more information.

using default live_grep:
:Telescope live_grep search_dirs={"%:p"}
restricts the search to the current buffer. This is handy to replicate current_buffer_fuzzy_find but with ripgrep instead (see Live grep current buffer and fuzzy find in cwd #762)

However, passing search_dirs={"%:p"} to live_grep_args:
:Telescope live_grep_args search_dirs={"%:p"} seems to have no effect on the directories grep searches. (also worth noting other search_dirs={...} options had no effect either).

I think there's probably still some way to achieve the same effect with ripgrep's flags directly, but I wonder whether any other arguments aren't being passed through to live_grep_args that are available in live_grep

Update: i couldn't figure out how to accomplish this with the ripgrep flags without typing out the full path of the current file.

From a quick scan around I think the relevant sections of code are

telescope-live-grep-args.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/live_grep_args.lua

Line 29 in 7de3bae

local live_grep_args = function(opts)

v.s.

https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/blob/18fc02b499b368287e3aa267ec0b0d22afc0f19b/lua/telescope/builtin/__files.lua#L95

Not sure how exactly these links should help solve this problem?

These links highlight how telescope handles arguments to live_grep v.s. how live-grep-args handles arguments. Notably, telescope has logic for handling search_dirs that is missing from the live-grep-args version. I would propose using the telescope implementation as a guide to patch this back into live-grep-args

I'm also running into this issue, would love a fix!

Can someone give #48 a try?

Can someone give #48 a try?

I tried this branch in conjunction with the neoscopes plugin, it seems to work fine. Thanks for this improvement!

I tried switching from live_grep to live_grep_args for all my (manually) configured search scopes today and it didn't work because of this issue. I just tried #48 locally and it fixes the issue for me as well.

@mrmarkwell the PR that enables the search_dir function has just been merged. Pull the latest update.

As of 0f75ea8, the search_dirs options seem not working for shortcuts functions, i.e., grep_word_under_cursor and grep_visual_selection since the opts are hard coded. hope that search_dirs would also work for them.