How can I prevent vim from auto-opening the first quickfix list item?

Question

Basically, I'd like the same type of behavior as when you use :grep! vs. :grep. I'm using a find-files plugin that outputs to the quickfix list and I don't want vim to automatically open the first file each time (the plugin does not have an option for this). Is there a way to disable the auto-opening behavior globally?

Edit: the plugin is samoshkin/vim-find-files

It's pretty simple, but does what I need (I like the fd backend). I prefer the quickfix list vs. a buffer because I use another plugin that gives me easy access/navigation to the quickfix list.

Answer 1

That plugin samoshkin/vim-find-files uses cexpr to create the quickfix list. :cexpr will always jump to the first error. I believe, you can simply replace :cexpr by :cgetexpr and it will just create a quickfix buffer, without jumping to the error. You could create a PR for that.

Answer 2

I do something similar using mappings (note: I prefer the local window location list as opposed to global quickfix for this. If you prefer the quickfix list, just switch 'grep' for 'lgrep', 'copen' for 'lopen', and 'cgetexpr' for 'lgetexpr')

map   <M-g> :lgrep!<Space><BAR>:lopen<C-Left>
-- or, better yet --
map   <M-g> :lgetexpr system( 'grep -EIRsn --exclude=tags --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=build --exclude-dir=doxygen ""' )<BAR>:lopen<C-Left><C-Left><Right>