I had a secondary machine where I introduced this bug through doing a :Lazy update.

These are the packages and versions that were bumped, introducing the bug:
Laurensdc/dotfiles@9411056

Hey @Laurensdc

I had the same issue and turns out that during a refactor of my config I accidentally deleted the loading of the fzf extension call, you should add require("telescope").load_extension("fzf) somewhere after the Telescope plugin setup; more details on how to load it correctly here.

Just for your info, I think that this "issue" is actually the default behavior of the plugin and the white space behavior works only after loading the fzf native extension correctly.

Wow, exactly, the require("telescope").load_extension("fzf") was missing from my config.
Thank you so much!

What the hell? I guess I"m crazy. I could have sworn that was working before, but yeah this was the solution.

I added

  {
    "nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim",
    build = "make",
    dependencies = { "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim" },
  },

and

    config = function(_, opts)
      require("telescope").setup(opts)
      require("telescope").load_extension("fzf")
    end,

I"ll add my solution as well: Laurensdc/dotfiles@263f879