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This section is meant as a community-driven list of user workflows and ways to use television in different contexts to inspire others.

⭐ VSCode extension

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alexpasmantier.television

⭐ Zed Editor File Finder

This is a drop-in file editor setup for the zed editor leveraging television, a task, and keybinding.

1. Install television
2. Add a task for a file finder (zed: open tasks command)

tasks.json

{
  "label": "File Finder",
  "command": "zeditor \"$(tv files)\"",
  "hide": "always",
  "allow_concurrent_runs": true,
  "use_new_terminal": true
},

3. Add keybinding to open file finder in center terminal (zed: open keymap command)

keymap.json

[
  {
    "bindings": {
      // replace file_finder::Toggle
      "cmd-p": [
        "task::Spawn",
        { "task_name": "File Finder", "reveal_target": "center" }
      ]
    }
  }
]

This should result in an interaction similar to the GIF above.

⭐ Vim/Neovim plugin

credit: https://github.com/prabirshrestha/tv.vim

⭐ Zed Editor Live Grep

This is a drop-in project search setup for the zed editor with similar setup to the file finder.

Nagranie.z.ekranu.2025-01-27.o.17.18.37.mp4

1. Install television
2. Add a task for a file finder (zed: open tasks command)

tasks.json

{
    "label": "Live Grep",
    "command": "zed \"$(tv text)\"",
    "hide": "always",
    "allow_concurrent_runs": true,
    "use_new_terminal": true,
},

3. Add keybinding to open file finder in center terminal (zed: open keymap command)

keymap.json

{
    "bindings": {
      "space f w": [
        "task::Spawn",
        { "task_name": "Live Grep", "reveal_target": "center" }
      ],
    }
}

You can replace space f w with your keybinding

Improve performance

If there's a delay before the Live Grep window lauches you can optimize this by spawning it in a different shell, eg. bash or sh.| In the example below zed will use sh to spawn the process:

tasks.json

  {
    "label": "Live Grep",
    "command": "zed \"$(tv text)\"",
    "hide": "always",
    "allow_concurrent_runs": true,
    "use_new_terminal": true,
    "shell": {
      "program": "sh"
    }
  },

If you neeed further optimalization you can add commandline args like --noediting, --norc, --noprofile to the shell process:

tasks.json

    "shell": {
      "with_arguments": {
        "program": "sh",
        "args": ["--noediting", "--norc", "--noprofile"]
      }
    }

or

tasks.json

    "shell": {
      "with_arguments": {
        "program": "bash",
        "args": ["--norc", "--noprofile"]
      }
    }

Note that you need to have tv in your $PATH

This optimizations can also be applied to file finder.

Huge thanks to eddiebergman and thomdabrowski for these optimizations, original thread