Always prompt for directory when starting consult-ripgrep

[petergaultney]

I wanted to do something like #605 but don't have enough ELisp chops (or time in my day) to figure out how to switch directories once a consult-ripgrep session has started. I'd like to just drop into the directory picker and then go back to my search.

It would be really cool if consult-ripgrep had a more featureful interface (I know @minad prefers composable packages rather than built-in functions) that would allow the user to change the context while inside it.

Anyway, in the absence of that, I will post my hacked-together solution and close this issue so that others might benefit.

[petergaultney]

I hacked the following together, which I'm going to swap into the keybinding that I've been using for consult-ripgrep itself - I pretty much always want to choose a directory that isn't the project directory, and if I did want the project directory, it's just one additional tap on Enter.

(defun my/consult-ripgrep ()
  (interactive)
  (run-at-time 0 nil #'consult-ripgrep
     (universal-argument)
    ))

I don't really understand why run-at-time is necessary here, but it didn't work without it, and I stole that idea from this other related issue I found while looking around.

[minad]

The following should work:

(defun consult-ripgrep-always-prompt-dir ()
  (interactive)
  (consult-ripgrep t))