telescope-lusty.nvim

A Telescope configuration for quickly switching buffers using the home row keys. Inspired by Lusty Juggler

Features

Quickly switch between buffers using the home row keys (asdfghjkl;'). The default configuration shows a minimal list in most-recently-used order

You can use the same key mappings in other Telescope pickers too.

Since j and k are used for quick navigation and some lists have more than 11 elements, you can use Ctrl-j and Ctrl-k (or Ctrl-n and Ctrl-p if you prefer) to move up/down the list.

Installation

Use your favorite plugin manager to install this plugin, e.g.

Plug 'spect88/telescope-lusty.nvim'

Configuration

The main buffer picker can be opened by calling

:lua require('telescope.lusty').lusty()

It's probably a good idea to set up a mapping like this:

vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>b', require('telescope.lusty').lusty, {})

If you don't like the default config (e.g. the sort order or lack of preview), you can configure your own. The following will run the default buffers picker with telescope-lusty's keymaps attached:

require('telescope.builtin').buffers({
  sorting_strategy = 'ascending',
  initial_mode = 'normal',
  attach_mappings = require('telescope.lusty').attach_quick_jump_letter_mappings,
})

Alternatively, if you like the minimal buffers list, but don't need the keymaps:

require('telescope.builtin').buffers(
  require('telescope.themes').get_dropdown({
    sort_mru = true,
    ignore_current_buffer = true,
    previewer = false,
    entry_maker = require('telescope.lusty').buffer_entry_maker(),
  })
)