helix: File picker should have an option to display ignored files

Helix can’t open files that are in the home directory and in some other directories. Can’t quite tell the pattern, but in some directories helix just doesn’t open any existing files. As in it doesn’t show suggestions. It opens the file if I type its name manually with the relative path, but it can’t open the file if I type its path like ~/.vimrc, e.g. with leading tilde. It says “NOR” and a path to the file

Environment

Platform: Arch Linux
Helix version: 0.2.0

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 18 (11 by maintainers)

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@archseer Yeah, another person like me which use .git for home directory, which is why I say we stop the .git search until the home directory or root directory.

@valignatev One suggestion I can say is used another directory for git. But yeah, that’s a temporary solution for just helix. That’s also good because it can hide my prompt. Now I just alias home so it is ~/.home rather than ~/.git so stuff don’t seemed weird sometimes, and my prompt also does not show the branch for git when at home directory:

alias home 'git --work-tree=/home/ivan --git-dir=/home/ivan/.home'

pickfire on Jun 28, 2021