Unfocus the findbar by pressing Enter

[janbuchar]

I'd like to be able to do

1. \ - open findbar
2. type
3. press Enter to unfocus the findbar
4. press n/N to go through matches

The only missing piece is binding <CR> to unfocusing the searchbar. I don't think I should make a global map for <CR> as that could interfere with a lot of things. What can I do?

[RobertCraigie]

The only missing piece is binding to unfocusing the searchbar. I don't think I should make a global map for as that could interfere with a lot of things. What can I do?

You can actually define keymaps that would otherwise cause lots of conflicts by using this pattern:

glide.keymaps.set("insert", "<CR>", async () => {
  if (glide.findbar.is_focused()) {
    await glide.findbar.close(); // kind of a hack to just move focus out of the findbar
  } else {
    await glide.keys.send("<CR>", { skip_mappings: true });
  }
});

this means that the <CR> key press will be sent again without triggering any glide mappings, and should function as if you had never defined the <CR> keymap in the first place!

---

glide.keymaps.set("normal", "\\", async () => {
  await glide.findbar.open();
});
glide.keymaps.set("normal", "n", async () => {
  await glide.findbar.next_match();
});
glide.keymaps.set("normal", "N", async () => {
  await glide.findbar.previous_match();
});
glide.keymaps.set("insert", "<CR>", async () => {
  if (glide.findbar.is_focused()) {
    await glide.findbar.close(); // kind of a hack to just move focus out of the findbar
  } else {
    await glide.keys.send("<CR>", { skip_mappings: true });
  }
});

note that n / N will show the findbar UI again, without focusing it, there isn't a way to make it not show again but I'd happily add one if that would be better for you :)

[janbuchar]

Thanks, that works pretty well! I knew that something like skip_mappings must exist 🙂

To be clear, I don't mind the searchbar being there. In fact, the ideal solution would be if <CR> really just unfocused the search bar. But I'm satisfied with it either way.