I have been using Neovim as my main editor for about a year now. I got started with LazyVim, which is a great distribution that really helped me get up to speed faster. It comes with a lot of great plugins and settings out of the box, one of which is (or was) telescope. Since I started using LazyVim they actually moved to fzf-lua as the default driver for pickers. But I am still using telescope via LazyVim’s extras though.

For some of the pickers I use, I usually do not filter the list down by typing. I bring up the picker, escape out of insert mode and start navigating the list with j and k. I found a nice little optimiziation for these: I can just default the mode to normal instead. This makes my life a tiny bit better.

Since I am using LazyVim, the package configuration is really easy. I can just specify a few overwrites, and still use all the detailed configuration that comes with the distro.

These are the picker settings I have right now:

  return {
      "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim",
      opts = {
          pickers = {
              buffers = {
                  initial_mode = "normal",
              },
              lsp_references = {
                  initial_mode = "normal",
              },
              lsp_definitions = {
                  initial_mode = "normal",
              },
          },
      },
  },