Path name is truncated (and inconsistently) about smart-open.nvim HOT 4 CLOSED

I think this is consistent in the sense that it's truncating directory names longer than 16 chars. Yeah...it's an odd default that's not called out anywhere, It's using the shorten = 16 option from telescope.nvim.

This is definitely a weakness we have when using terminal-based applications, since we can't use a variable width typeface that would allow us to use so much less space for these.

Ideally there wouldn't need to be any options here because we'd just be able to do the most reasonable thing always. If anybody has any thoughts or examples of some project doing this well, I'd love to know about it.

I don't care for the way telescope shortens directories. I'd much prefer if it only shortens as much as it would need to make the directory fit, but for that, the path_display transformation functions would have to accept an "available length" parameter. At the very least though, I think we can expose an option that allows us to fall back to configuring the display of paths using telescope's options.

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This change is available on the 0.2.x branch, which is in a sort of pre-release state right now, so if you want to try it out and provide feedback, that would be great. I ended up creating a custom path formatter because I couldn't find anything existing that tried to give as much path information as possible given a space constraint. Also, I switched to using a highlighting class of Directory to give the directory a different color. I like the looks of this, so hopefully it's the correct way to use the highlighting class?

If there's anyone who can provide feedback on this, it would be a big help.

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It looks great! I just tried it and I think it works for whatever I have right now. Not sure if there is any edge case but at least it's working for me.
One thing not sure if related to the custom formatter: it seems the results are blinking/refreshing quite a bit whenever I'm typing. Maybe it's due to the refreshing period too short? It's not a big deal just some nitpick.

Thanks for working on this! It's a daily plugin for me :)

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Implemented on 0.2.x branch.

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