Add multiple files at once to context

[joaomendoncaa]

I stumbled upon the workflow of wanting to add multiple files to context. The problem is you can only add one buffer at a time with /file, or read files with @files.

You hit a wall if you try to use the files tool to read a directory: Tool files finished with error(s): { "....local/share/nvim/lazy/plenary.nvim/lua/plenary/path.lua:749: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory" }.

This sounds like a common hurdle, so I'm RFC on whether we should:

1. make strategies.chat.tools.files.read() handle the edge case of a path being a directory by checking if p is a directory and making an iterator that recursively asks permission to read files and buffers each one into a contents table that then gets ultimately returned as a file (bad ux IMO, you'll can get locked into an infinite amount of permissions requests)

2. do the same thing, but instead of asking read permission per file we do it on the directory itself and forcefully read all files (I know, dangerous for token consumption)

3. I know recently we had a big revamp with file watchers instead of static context content — maybe there's something already in motion to handle batch addition which I don't know of. (?)

[olimorris]

This isn't true. Depending on your provider you can select multiple files:

[olimorris]

You can even build your own prompt library prompts that point to specific files

[joaomendoncaa]

Thank you. If anyone stumbles upon this whilst using fzf-lua as a provider: you can use <C-i> for multi-selection.