How to limit the search in the current buffer?

[shakaxi]

Thanks for your great effort for helm-rg, and I am trying to use rg instead of ag.

By default, the helm-rg provides interface to search in a directory. But I found it cannot limit the search in the current buffer yet, which could bring about great convenience. Do you have any intention or plan in the near future?

Thanks.

[codygman]

I need this as well, in the meantime I'll use helm-ag I suppose.

Edit: it should be relatively easy to hack together our own helm-rg-this-file function, but it's late for me atm.

[liuzhishan]

hi, I found a way to specify the directory, just add these codes in config.el

(defun helm-rg-dir ()
   (interactive)
  (let ((helm-rg--current-dir
       (read-directory-name "rg directory: " helm-rg--current-dir nil t)))
       (helm-rg (helm-rg--get-thing-at-pt))))

It can also be binded to some key:
(map! :leader :desc "do rg under directory" :n "s a" #'helm-rg-dir)

And just press "SPC s a" to do the rg under some directory.