adjust searcher heap usage

[mjkpolo]

It would be nice to change the max heap usage of the searcher in memory constrained environments like a cluster login node (which was killing helix when searching through large projects)

I posted this on the helix subreddit, and one of the commenters solved my issue and suggested I make a feature request. This is the patch that fixed my issue:

diff --git a/helix-term/src/commands.rs b/helix-term/src/commands.rs
index f25e8254..ecfcacfc 100644
--- a/helix-term/src/commands.rs
+++ b/helix-term/src/commands.rs
@@ -2327,6 +2327,7 @@ fn format(&self, current_path: &Self::Data) -> Row {

                 std::thread::spawn(move || {
                     let searcher = SearcherBuilder::new()
+                        .heap_limit(Some(5*1024*1024))
                         .binary_detection(BinaryDetection::quit(b'\x00'))
                         .build();

I have never written rust but if someone could point me in the general direction of how to add an options to the config.toml file and pass it to the searcher builder I would be be willing to try and add this as a feature.

[RoloEdits]

To add to the config, you need to add to the Config struct in helix-view/src/editor.rs.

To access a config, you generally need a Context, which is usually done with a cx: &mut Context. This will give you access to the cx.editor.config which you can call load() on to get access to the fields.

I will say that the current master might be different than what you had before as the new global search has been added.

[mjkpolo]

@RoloEdits thank you, btw, how do I filter by file name, or has that feature been removed with the new global search? Or is it a toggle. I much preferred the old way.

[RoloEdits]

This is the commit that added the new picker(which includes the new search) #9647

[mjkpolo]

@RoloEdits oh thank you!! Filtering by any column is actually really cool and is way better than before