Example of using Telescope for vim.ui.select

[IndianBoy42]

local action_state = require "telescope.actions.state"
local actions = require "telescope.actions"
local themes = require "telescope.themes"
local pickers = require "telescope.pickers"
local finders = require "telescope.finders"

local function uiselect(topts)
  topts = topts or themes.get_dropdown() -- get_dropdown
  local conf = require("telescope.config").values
  return function(items, opts, on_choice)
    opts = opts or {}
    local prompt = opts.prompt or ""
    local format_item = opts.format_item or tostring

    pickers.new(topts, {
      prompt_title = prompt,
      finder = finders.new_table {
        results = items, -- TODO:
        entry_maker = function(entry)
          local str = format_item(entry)
          return {
            value = entry,
            display = str,
            ordinal = str,
          }
        end,
      },
      sorter = conf.generic_sorter(topts),
      attach_mappings = function(prompt_bufnr, map)
        actions.select_default:replace(function()
          actions.close(prompt_bufnr)
          local selection = action_state.get_selected_entry()
          on_choice(selection.value)
        end)
        return true
      end,
    }):find()
  end
end

vim.ui.select = uiselect(--[[You can configure the layout,picker, or sorter here]])

Anyone else done this? anything I can improve?

[Conni2461]

We provide a ui.select version as neovim plugin: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-ui-select.nvim

You can take a look at how we did it :)

[IndianBoy42]

Oh thats great, I'll switch over, i don't know how I didn't find that while searching