An extension for telescope.nvim that combines the results from builtin.oldfiles({ cwd_only = true }) with builtin.find_files

In other words, it searches for files in the current directory, and displays files in order of how recently they were opened.

Lazy:

{
  'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim',
  tag = '0.1.8',
  dependencies = {
    'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim'
    'ronandalton/telescope-recent-files.nvim',
  },
  config = function()
    require('telescope').load_extension('recent-files')
    -- Example keymap:
    vim.keymap.set('n', '<C-p>', require('telescope').extensions['recent-files'].recent_files, { desc = 'Search Files' })
  end
},

Note that git must also be installed so that files in .gitignore can be filtered out of recent search results.

The following options can be specified (default values are given):

{
  cwd = nil, -- if unspecified, current directory is used
  include_current_file = false,
  -- any other options accepted by builtin.oldfiles or builtin.find_files are also accepted
}

I made this because I couldn't find a plugin that did exactly what I needed.

I would suggest this functionality be built into Telescope (it would be quite simple, I would be happy to make a PR).

But based on this discussion, nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim#2109, it seems the maintainers doesn't want it.

There are other plugins that tackle this, but they have their issues:

• https://github.com/danielfalk/smart-open.nvim (depends on a sqlite database, and does not integrate with Neovim's native oldfiles)
• https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-frecency.nvim (does not seem to load the oldfiles either?)

The first thing I do is usually open a file within the current project I'm working in.

Thus, I've set this to run on startup:

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('VimEnter', {
  callback = function()
    if vim.fn.argc() == 0 then
      require('telescope').extensions['recent-files'].recent_files()
    end
  end
})