[FR] Option to not respect gitignore

[pema83]

It seems to me that telekasten depends on ripgrep to search for tags.
Ripgrep by default respects .gitignore files. It would be very nice to have an option to be able to find tags in gitignored files and directories.

As far as I could see in the ripgrep docu it would do to pass -uuu to rg.

Namely, ripgrep won't search files ignored by your .gitignore/.ignore/.rgignore files, it won't search hidden files and it
won't search binary files. Automatic filtering can be disabled with rg -uuu.

Telescope allows to modify or define a new grep command.

Reference

telescope.defaults.vimgrep_arguments
Defines the command that will be used for live_grep and grep_string pickers.
Default: {
"rg",
"--color=never",
"--no-heading",
"--with-filename",
"--line-number",
"--column",
"--smart-case"
}

And also for find files to optionally find ignored files.

builtin.find_files({opts}) telescope.builtin.find_files()
Search for files (respecting .gitignore)
{no_ignore} (boolean) show files ignored by
.gitignore, .ignore, etc.
(default: false)

[pema83]

I just found out, that it is possible to edit the plugins after they have been installed in nvim.
Following edit gives the desired feature.

local function command_find_all_tags(opts)
    opts = opts or {}
    opts.cwd = opts.cwd or "."
    opts.templateDir = opts.templateDir or ""
    opts.rg_pcre = opts.rg_pcre or false

    -- do not list tags in the template directory
    local globArg = ""
    if opts.templateDir ~= "" then
        globArg = "--glob=!" .. "**/" .. opts.templateDir .. "/*.md"
    end

    local re = hashtag_re

    if opts.tag_notation == "@tag" then
        re = atsign_re
    elseif opts.tag_notation == ":tag:" then
        re = colon_re
    elseif opts.tag_notation == "yaml-bare" then
        re = yaml_re
    end

    local rg_args = {
        "--vimgrep",
        globArg,
        "--no-ignore",
        "-o",
        re,
        "--",
        opts.cwd,
    }

    -- PCRE engine allows to remove hex color codes from #hastags
    if opts.rg_pcre then
        if re == hashtag_re then
            re = hashtag_re_pcre

            rg_args = {
                "--vimgrep",
                "--pcre2",
                globArg,
                "--no-ignore",
                "-o",
                re,
                "--",
                opts.cwd,
            }
        elseif re == atsign_re then
            re = atsign_re_pcre

            rg_args = {
                "--vimgrep",
                "--pcre2",
                globArg,
                "--no-ignore",
                "-o",
                re,
                "--",
                opts.cwd,
            }
        end
    end

    return "rg", rg_args
end

local live_grepper = finders.new_job(
                function(prompt)
                    if not prompt or prompt == "" then
                        return nil
                    end

                    local search_command = {
                        "rg",
                        "--vimgrep",
                        "-e",
                        "^#+\\s" .. prompt,
                        "--",
                    }
                    if search_mode == "para" then
                        search_command = {
                            "rg",
                            "--vimgrep",
                            "-e",
                            "\\^" .. prompt,
                            "--",
                        }
                    end

                    if search_mode == "tag" then
                        search_command = {
                            "rg",
                            "--vimgrep",
                            "--no-ignore",
                            globArg,
                            "-e",
                            prompt,
                            "--",
                        }
                    end
………

I'm not sure if and how such an option would be best implemented.
I see many ifs… and variyng search_commands…

[pema83]

@renerocksai I think not respecting gitignore is a bad solution for the problem. Better would be an option to override home or opts.cwd like opts.cwd = "/tmp/vaultstest/ /home/marco/vimwiki/" in FindAllTags(opts). So a user could then search in private and job related files (different vaults) for tags. But unfortunately rg then complains that there is no such file or directory when run in tagsearch.
rg --vimgrep --pcre2 --glob=!**/./*.md -o '#asdf' -- /tmp/vaultstest/ /home/marco/vimwiki/ does return those tags for files in both directories. I lack the skills to investigate why the large regex with colorcode filtering does not work. I even fail to execute it in the shell… there surely is an escaping problem. If you could have a look into running rg with two or more paths from telekasten, I might be able to make an optional setting about the tag search path.

I print my command at the end of command_find_all_tags()

file = io.open("/tmp/ausgabe.lua", "a")
    io.output(file)
    for k,v in ipairs(rg_args) do
       io.write(v.." " )
    end
    io.close(file)

I get:
--vimgrep --pcre2 --glob=!**/./*.md -o (^|\s|'|")((?!(#[a-fA-F0-9]{3})(\W|$)|(#[a-fA-F0-9]{6})(\W|$))#[a-zA-ZÀ-ÿ\p{Script=Han}]+[a-zA-ZÀ-ÿ0-9/\-_\p{Script=Han}]*) /tmp/vaultstest/ /home/marco/vimwiki/