Live grep with arguments

The motivation to include this was to be able to exclude test files from
my search like this:

"search term" -g "!test"

Author: TheDDMbassy

lua/plugins/telescope.lua

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ return { -- Fuzzy Finder (files, lsp, etc)
 
     -- Useful for getting pretty icons, but requires a Nerd Font.
     { 'nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons', enabled = vim.g.have_nerd_font },
+    -- Useful for searching within a particular directory
+    { 'nvim-telescope/telescope-live-grep-args.nvim', version = '^1.0.0' },
   },
   config = function()
     -- Telescope is a fuzzy finder that comes with a lot of different things that
@@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ return { -- Fuzzy Finder (files, lsp, etc)
     -- Enable Telescope extensions if they are installed
     pcall(require('telescope').load_extension, 'fzf')
     pcall(require('telescope').load_extension, 'ui-select')
+    pcall(require('telescope').load_extension, 'live_grep_args')
 
     -- See `:help telescope.builtin`
     local builtin = require 'telescope.builtin'
@@ -94,6 +97,9 @@ return { -- Fuzzy Finder (files, lsp, etc)
     vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>s.', builtin.oldfiles, { desc = '[S]earch Recent Files ("." for repeat)' })
     vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader><leader>', builtin.buffers, { desc = '[ ] Find existing buffers' })
 
+    local lga = require('telescope').extensions.live_grep_args
+    vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>sa', lga.live_grep_args, { desc = '[S]earch by Grep with [A]rgs, e.g. in certain dirs' })
+
     -- Slightly advanced example of overriding default behavior and theme
     vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>/', function()
       -- You can pass additional configuration to Telescope to change the theme, layout, etc.