Show links/backlinks in quickfix list

[neo451]

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I just started zk-nvim because I realize obsidian.nvim is not actively maintained and find zk to be really nice to work with.
One feature I do miss is the ability to show links/backlinks in the quickfix list, it would be cool to store them there and just navigate however they like it.
Rationale:

1. more native, quickfix is not a new plugin to deal with, but can be enhanced by awesome plugins like quicker.nvim or nvim-bqf
2. more minimal, although all picker plugins (i think) supports using <C-q> to send the results to the quickfix list, but that is a lot more keystrokes and some may not use a picker, in that case the ui.select interface will not get the option to send to quickfix.
3. more true to the idea of links/backlinks, in my opinion they are best to examine multiple connections to a note quickly, but having a picker to select one connection and navigate to it is not very efficient in my mind.

I would like to implement this if you like, and the problems is how do I expose this functionality? as an extra option to ZkNotes or a new builtin command?

[tjex]

Welcome :) Sad to hear that it's unmaintained. The maintainer was doing such a good job last I checked. But understandable. There was so much action there due to Obsidian's userbase being quite large now.

So, you can use the quickfix menu as your picker with the picker = .... See the config example in the readme. I would say if you wanted to use your normal fuzzy finder all the time except for when searching backlinks, you could build a custom function where you set the picker to select momentarily.

I would actually not be up for merging functionality like this. Because from most fuzzy finders I know, you can send the list to quickfix manually. Or recall the fuzzy finder eg FzfResume. Or it should be possible (if not perhaps a little hacky) to build a custom function using our API.

Will close as I'm not up for merging. But thanks for posting :)

[neo451]

thank you for your reply, makes sense, thank you for your work!