How to add options to fd or rg search?

[theperiscope]

What system are you running Yazi on?

Windows

What terminal are you running Yazi in?

Wezterm

yazi --debug output

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Text Opener
    default     : Some(OpenerRule { run: "code %*", block: false, orphan: true, desc: "code", for: None, spread: true })
    block-create: Some(OpenerRule { run: "code -w %*", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "code (block)", for: None, spread: true })
    block-rename: Some(OpenerRule { run: "code -w %*", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "code (block)", for: None, spread: true })

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    fd/fdfind     : 10.3.0 / program not found
    rg            : 14.1.0
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Clipboard
    wl-copy/paste: program not found / program not found
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Routine
    `file -bL --mime-type`: text/plain


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Describe the question

I would like to be able to find and select/unselect files by filename/extension efficiently. For example in my Downloads folder, I'd like to select only the A*.png files among all others.

I was hoping to use the -g fd option that allows one to do just that. I tried also fd regex search with ^ and $ unsuccessfully:

• fd -g "A*.png"
• fd "^*.png$"

Any ideas how to quickly select files with globs? On Windows at least, I am quite used to them.

Anything else?

No response

Checklist

• I have read all the documentation
• I have searched the existing discussions/issues

[sxyazi]

You can use the --args switch to pass any arguments supported by fd, see https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/configuration/keymap#mgr.search

[theperiscope]

@sxyazi Forgive my ignorance, bit new to yazi. How would I input my glob pattern and provide to the command, the way for example the s command does?

So far my TOML looks like:

mgr.prepend_keymap = [
  { on = ["g", "f"], run = 'search_do --via=fd --args="-g"' }
]

[theperiscope]

trial-and-error, found it... just search does the trick:

mgr.prepend_keymap = [
  { on = ["g", "f"], run = 'search --via=fd --args="-g"', desc = "fd search with a glob pattern" },
]

[pabloms92]

Maybe this answer arrives late, but I now got used to the workflow of first s search via fd "A" then f to filter "png" it is not the same, but also not so much longer to type