lsp_references, grep_string function highlight searching words

[yueyingjuesha]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Whenever I use telescope.builtin.lsp_references, telescope.builtin.grep_string, always find it difficult to see the word being searched, it would be great if we can highlight the string being searched in both results windows & grep preview window

Describe the solution you'd like highlight the string being searched in both results windows & grep preview window

Describe alternatives you've considered A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.

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[ssh352]

same issue here.

[juanmagalhaes]

Same here

[Iron-E]

Would be a great addition!

[MrGrinst]

I was able to hack this together by adding a slight delay and entering the search string once the search modal has popped up:

vim.api.nvim_create_user_command('Grep',
	function(opts)
		require("telescope.builtin").grep_string(
			{ search = opts.fargs[1], file_ignore_patterns = { ".git/" } }
		)
		vim.defer_fn(function()
			vim.api.nvim_put({ opts.fargs[1] .. " " }, 'c', true, true)
		end, 50)
	end,
	{ nargs = 1 }
)

[Avi-D-coder]

This is a theme issue. I just checked it works as expected in some themes like rose-pine.

What is the highlight group?

[Avi-D-coder]

I my case TelescopeNormal and Visual were set to the same background. TelescopePreviewLine links to Visual by default.

You can set TelescopePreviewLine to fix the issue.

[jamestrew]

@Avi-D-coder I think the difference is highlighting the entire line of the match vs highlighting just the matched word.

For grep_string and live_grep, there needs to be a semi-major rewrite but this is in the works. https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/pull/2536

For other pickers like for lsp_references, this would also require some non-trivial amount of work - this, there isn't any advancements on.