Neovim telescope plugin can't search for multiple character names

Ok I have wasted a lot of time on this now and hope someone out there can shed some light on this.

I just installed the telescope plugin for neovim (using nixvim). I’ve been using nixvim for a while and it has worked really well, but for some reason the telescope plugin behaves weirdly. Whenever I do “Telescope find_files”, the search window pops up and puts me in input mode in the “Find Files” box. I can type one character and the search is done, but as soon as I type a second character whatever the first character search file found is selected. (it acts as though the second character I type behaves as the enter key - “select”). I haven’t put any of my own config in, I just want the defaults for now.

Oh, oddly enough, in the find box - if I as the “second character” use space, it behaves correctly - but any other characters acts as enter.

If anyone can give me any hints I’d be eternally grateful.

I just discovered that I can paste in a word (thus, multiple characters) in the “Find Files” box and it works correctly

:slight_smile: Turns out vim-mucomplete completely messes up telescope. That took me way too long to figure out. I hope I am saving someone else time that finds this in the future…

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