How to integrate consult-dir (or find-file) with consult-buffer

[vspinu]

This is what I would like to achieve:

1. From consult-buffer invoke consult-dir
2. Select directory
3. Select file
4. Open file directly, don't drop back to consult-buffer.

So basically I want consult-dir not to return to the original completion system but perform its normal action.

Maybe this can be achieved by default. It doesn't make much sense to insert the full path into consult-buffer interface. WDYT?

[vspinu]

BTW, if I invoke find-file from inside the consult-buffer I do get the file opened but the consult-buffer interface stays open, which is not ideal either.

[karthink]

If you use Embark, the cleanest way to do this is to add consult-dir to embark-file+buffer-map and switch to consult-dir from consult-buffer using embark-become.

Besides the Embark approach I'm not sure of how to do this. consult-buffer and consult-dir are fundamentally different, incommensurate commands.

[ramblehead]

This is a small quick hack that works for me:

(defvar rh-consult-dir--source-recentf
`(:name "Directory"
  :narrow ?d
  :category file
  :face consult-file
  :history file-name-history
  :action ,#'dired
  :state ,#'consult--file-preview
  :enabled ,(lambda () recentf-mode)
  :items ,#'consult-dir--recentf-dirs)
"Recentf directory source for `consult-buffer-sources'.")

(add-to-list 'consult-buffer-sources 'rh-consult-dir--source-recentf t)