mileszs/ack.vim

Vim plugin for the Perl module / CLI script 'ack'

ack.vim's Issues

Question: Is there a way to set a default context for Acking?

So in vim I would :Ack, and then get back instead of a line match, a blob match like grep -C 2 would do, for example. /cc @jacobo

Search in .git repository

It would be great if this had a feature similar to ctrl-p, where you can somehow signal to ack.vim to find the first git/svn repository that the current working directory is in, and then search from that root.

Don't block GUI when searching

It would be nice if the search process would not block the complete interaction with vim
so that I can edit code while searching for stuff.

Never mind

This was an oops. :-)

Using Ack to search javascript projects shows no results

When using Ack to search a Javascript project tree (Node.js), the new window shows no results or if shown sometimes, it clears the results when I choose any result.

When I use the ack from windows command prompt, it displays perfectly all results found.

Using gVim on Windows XP with ack-standalone.pl.

~/.ackrc ignored

Searching with :Ack pattern takes ages compared to searching from the terminal $ ack pattern

How can I make ack-vim ignore the files and directories I´ve specified in my ~/.ackrc ?

Cheers,
martins

Hitting enter on a file doesn't open it

Hi, great plugin. I'm using Snow Leopard, and in both the latest MacVim and vim 7.2 hitting return after searching doesn't open the file. It's highlighted, but nothing happens.

Feature request: Don't open first result

When I use :Ack I would like to see search results but choose which result to open. Oftentimes, I don't want to open the first search result but instead continuing editing the buffer I'm editing.

:make supports this with the alternate :make! command. Hopefully something similar is possible for Vim's external grep command functionality?

Search asynchronously in the background

When searching in large project trees it would be very useful to execute
:Ack asynchronously in the background.

I am not sure about how to implement this and if it makes sense at all, but
wanted to request it.

Here is some reference to the Vim Wiki:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Background\_grep\_searches

How can I stop a search ?

On MacVim build 57, how can I stop a search that is running (and taking forever ! )

Thanks

Quick overview of how to use the split window

Your docs assume that the reader knows how to use the split-window grep thing. I didn't, and so had to hit #vim because the docs themselves weren't very clear.

Maybe a crash course in using this functionality, or pointers to an explanation, would be helpful to the newbies like me.

"Searching ..." indefinitely if result(s) are found when using MacVim

It continues saying "Searching ..." if something should have been found, and returns a blank quickfix if there is nothing found (as it should). This is an issue with the current state of master (e93f693). It works fine in vim, but is an issue in MacVim.

Search results leak into terminal

When I run vim from OS X's (10.6.7) Terminal or iTerm apps and use the Ack command it works as expected, but upon closing vim all of the search results have been printed in the terminal window.

This does not occur when using MacVim even if it is launched via the mvim command.

Option to make Ack not replace current buffer with first matched file

When I'm acking for something it is VERY rare that I want to lose my current place in my open tab, I just want to see the usages of some word or phrase. By default Ack will overwrite your buffer with the first match and I can't seem to find a way to turn this off. It's very annoying frankly, if I forget to open a new tab before acking I lose my place and have to go buffer hunting.

Open all files from ack result

Is there any way to open all files return from the ack results into the buffers? It's easy to open each file individually, but I would like to open all of the files that are returned.

Tags or Branches for Stable Releases?

It would be awesome if y'all would tag and/or branch stable releases. Apart from the benefits it would have for developers working on ack.vim (like, being able to easily check out the code that people are ostensibly using on their machines, for instance), it would also be a boon to those of us using pathogen to manage vim plugins. We could submodule the "stable" branch (or whatever you want to call it) and then just always have the latest stable branch. Right now the choice is between manually managing it with the .tar.gz from vim.org or getting potentially unstable code.

Errors pops up when using the plugin

Since the lastest deploy on master, my ack.vim has been acting weirdly

Everytime I ack for a term, say controller, an error like this gets spat out

Note, I'm using the_silver_searcher as my ack command,

let g:ackprg = 'ag -S --nogroup --nocolor --column'

It even behaves the same way with the default ack command.
And yes, I have both the_silver_searcher and Ack instalelled and working.

Option to auto-preview file

I've modified the plugin by adding my own mappings so that when I move up and down (j and k) in the quickfix window the selected file is previewed (equivalent to typing "go"). My question is this: "Could this be made into a configuration option so I could set it from my .vimrc instead of having to modify the plugin source?".

Add a help section toggled with `?` like in NERDTree or Gundo

A help section toggled with some key (like ?) to print key bindings would be seriously awesome.

NERDTree and Gundo have that and it's really useful at least when just started using it.

Add tags to .gitignore

Hi,
can you add tags in .gitignore file?
Useful when we use pathogen.

Thanks,
Marco

Use a different command

Hi,

I would like to type :ack instead of :Ack! when searching. Is there a simple way to setup an alias or something to do this?

The ! is passed as an extra argument from looking at the code.

Would you recommend I just fork the project and change the code, or is there an easier way?

Undefined variable: g:ack_apply_qmappings

Line 15 (https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim/blob/master/plugin/ack.vim#L15) should read

let g:ack_apply_qmappings = !exists("g:ack_qhandler")

instead of

let g:ack_apply_mappings = !exists("g:ack_qhandler")

Can't use keyboard shortcuts in quickfix window

I'm trying to use the "o" keyboard shortcut to open a file from the quickfix window but I get:

Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off

It seems to be trying to do "insert newline below" so it's failing. This is normal VIM behavior isn't it? What am I missing?

Quickfix window displaces NERDTree

Things get weird when I search with NERDTree open and then open one of the results in a split:

Minor README edits for :AckAdd, :LAck, and :LAckAdd

Please explain in the README what :AckAdd, :LAck, and :LAckAdd do. For those who don't really know much about grep.

Feature request: Show last search's results

When I invoke :Ack with no arguments, I'd like the quickfix window to open, showing me the results from my last :Ack search. Would you accept a patch for this feature?

Can't search for text with "#" symbol in it

I'm using HAML + JS, so I need to search for ids i.e. "#message". However, when the following search returns nothing in vim:

:Ack "#message" -Q --haml

I read all the options for the ack command so I think I'm using ack properly (I could be wrong). So is this me misunderstanding the '#' symbol in the context of vim, or is this issue from elsewhere?

STDERR is not properly ignored/dealt with (e.g. permission denied)

Hi,

small problem when searching a directory containing non accessible files (e.g. cache files that were created by a daemon's user). Those error messages are interpreted as matches from ack-grep and displayed accordingly. Since ack-grep seems to properly send these errors to STDERR, a quick fix would be to make the system call using "2>/dev/null".

Detecting and properly showing these messages as error-messages would be even better.

thanks,
Tobias

Fast close

Is it possible to close the split window with a simple keystroke ? e.g. esc ?

Ask created a buffer

When I use Ask a new buffer

  #h   "[No Name]"                    line 1

is append to buffer list.

Searches with "#" blow up

I often need to search for strings that begin with "#" when finding id divs in haml/css

However Ack.vim explodes when using:

:Ack -Q "#something"

error:

E194: No alternate file name to substitute for "#"

ack -Q "#something" works fine from the command line so something in ack.vim is screwing it up

Unknown option: column and quick search does not works

Added as recommended for Debian / Ubuntu:
let g:ackprg="ack-grep -H --nocolor --nogroup --column"

but getting "Unknown option: column"

Partially works without column, i.e. displays result in quick search, but not opening in a split when I hit [Enter]

Option to not auto-open first match

Hi there,

Is it possible to configure Ack.vim so that it does not auto-open the first file which matches the search term?

Cheers,
Alastair

Latest update doesn't produce results when using 'Ack' in Vim.

After updating to the latest, if I run the :Ack command to search…

:Ack 'button'

no results are produced. Running ack in Terminal works as expected. Is there something I need to update in my .vimrc to get it working?

Thanks!

Please add Freebsd installation guide

It's helpful to Freebsd user to see installation in README

Ack displays the relevant line of a file that matches the search, no matter how long the line is.

So accidentally hitting a file that is one line long and hundreds of characters long might wrap for 15+ lines... can we get an option to fold results with too may lines by default?

Quickfix window behaviour

I can see the result of :Ack something in a hsplit below. But the behavior of quickfix window is weird o instead of opening the file tries to open a line and give error modifiable is off. Nothing else seems to be working like v, t, h, q...Am i the only one facing this?

Only open buffers are included

Have been struggling with this one for a while. It's not a bug but more my ignorance of ack I suppose, sorry about that.

I would like to find a way to search in all the files of a 'project', meaning the current directory and subdirectories, while honoring my .ackrc file.

:Ack somestring

This finds all the occurrences of somestring in the open buffers. That's fine but not what I want, I want to find a way to include the files that aren't opened yet as well.

:Ack -u somestring

This comes a little closer to the solution. It now finds all occurrences of somestring, even if the file isn't opened yet. Problem is this also includes my log files (in one of the subdirectories) and my .git directory, meaning the search doesn't only takes ages but also finds a lot of useless matches.

The log and .git directories are excluded in my .ackrc file but I think adding the -u parameter tells ack to ignore that file. Is this correct?

So, is there a way to get all occurrences of somestring in the current directory and subdirectories while following the rules in the .ackrc file?

Thanks!

How to search word under cursor?

Is posible to search words by Ack like this?

• cursor position

Ad.with_*some_scope(:params[:scope]) and press something like <leader>vv to search :Ack with_some_scope

Feature request: Similar item open functionality as NERDTree

NERDTree has some really slick commands for file node mappings. These could translate really well to ack.vim.

o = open (same as enter)
go = preview file (open but maintain focus on ack.vim results)
t = open in new tab
T = open in new tab silently

also some nice ones to open in split mode.

plz implement. thanks!! :-))

Add completion to :Ack (and other commands.)

I can never remember all of the flags for Ack, especially when I need to do something like search only file names, etc.

I would like :Ack and others to have completion so that I can fill in possible flags.

ag (the_silver_searcher) support?

What do you think about preferring ag if it is installed?

(Or, perhaps we could add an :Ag command?)

I profiled it and it's a bazillion times faster.

Search with "|" blows up

:Ack "hello|wello"

gives me

Searching ...
Error detected while processing function <SNR>20_Ack:
line   16:
E40: Can't open errorfile /var/folders/If/IfZlMN-8G3OpvJi2H-YbLk+++TI/-Tmp-/v56w6f0/5  

Whereas

ack hello|wello

on the command line works fine.

Search for selection

Hey
sometimes it would be really nice to be able to search for the current selection.

:Ack! '<,'>

At the moment this returns some errors:

 Error detected while processing function <SNR>19_Ack:
 E40: Can't open errorfile /var/folders/l8/1p3_btjs0y7bcw5k7df81czm0000gn/T/v9uVjcT/1

Maybe I am missing something here and this is already possible with some mapping.
Just let me know then.

No results shown when filetype is haskell (with haskellmode-vim)

I use haskellmode-vim and when I have a buffer open which is has the haskell filetype, invoking :Ack! always gives an empty quickfix window, even though the same query returns results when run from the shell prompt.

Here is a diff on ":set all" output between a plain buffer (where :Ack works as expected) and a buffer with the haskell filetype: https://gist.github.com/1688263

Sorry for filing this as an issue, I'm just out of ideas on how to debug it and could use some help with that. My whole vim config is available at https://github.com/arnar/vim-config

Refer to betterthangrep.com

Wherever you're referring to petdance.com/blahblahblah in the docs, please refer to http://betterthangrep.com/ That's the permanent home.

Search Freezes

Sometimes the search freezes and freezes the complete macvim window. Sadly I can't reproduce it but I think it has something to do with the NerdTree. Everytime the search freezes, NerdTree was open.

search in multiple directories

is there any way to search in multiple directories ?

it will be a great feature to have a configurable list of directories in vimrc in addition of current directory.
usefull to find patterns in external library

leaves around empty buffers everywhere

if you ack.vim for something and open a file found, it leaves open a new empty unnamed buffer :( :( :(

In MacVim, the recent version of Ack.vim with the ! option doesn't work at all

I cloned the latest Ack.vim and had it installed using Pathogen (amazing plugin if you haven't tried it). When I went to use the bang option to prevent opening the first result (thanks for adding this feature, btw!), I would get:

|| /bin/bash: ack -H --nocolor --nogroup: command not found

as my error message in the quickfix window. This seemed symptomatic of the ack script not being in my $PATH or something like that, but ack worked fine from my shell prompt. As it also did with all the flags passed to it (-H --nocolor --nogroup --column) in the Ack.vim script.

Eventually after much poking, I saw the following line was in a "if !exists("g:ackprg") block in the script. Even when I added the commented out line to let g:ackprg.... to my .vimrc, the plugin still didn't work.

So finally I just removed the if !exists block and left the blow line in the script:

let g:ackprg="ack -H --nocolor --nogroup --column"

Now it works great!

So..maybe reconsider the need of that if block??