Finding features

[rignet-bicteg]

Hello,

I'm trying to do 3 things and I can't find ways to do them. I suspect they're already there, but I can't find them in the docs / options.

1. Language aliasing - I'm working with a java like language, for which I want to enable the java tree sitter highlighting, how do I do that?
2. Buffer autocompletion - I want to do autocompletion with words found in the opened buffers
3. Fuzzy word search - I want to do a file search for files that contain certain word. Like Telescope's live grep feature.

Please tell me if I'm failing to find how to use these, or if they do not exist.
Thank you

[the-mikedavis]

#1866 was recently merged that lets you set a language with a command (for example :set-language java). You can also make a ~/.config/helix/languages.toml (if you're on linux/macos) that is merged with the languages.toml in this repo, so you could say something like

[[language]]
name = "java"
file-types = ["java", "javalike"]

So the java language and highlights will be used for .java and .javalike files for example.

Auto-complete is currently only provided by the LSP but there have been discussions about alternative mechanisms (#1063).

Fuzzy global search can be done with space/.

Also feel free to join us on the Matrix space! Questions like these would be a good fit there.