Projectile ag support?

[darkfeline]

projectile-ag depends in ag. ag isn't needed for the helm variant, but being able to open a results buffer is sometimes more useful than making repeated helm searches. So should we support projectile-ag?

(Related? #3141)

[darkfeline]

Or one could do a helm-projectile-ag search and use C-x C-s to open a buffer with the results. Silly me.

[a13ph]

Shows how bad current helm documentation visibility is

[darkfeline]

Actually, I think this deserves reconsideration since ivy, being a less ambitious kitchen sink than helm, doesn't have this feature.

[punchagan]

Also, given spacemacs is adding projectile-ag to the autoload commands list, users would expect it to work?

[sooheon]

@darkfeline I'm not sure what behavior you're referring to, as I haven't used projectile-ag, but is it anything like ivy-occur? I can call that on in-page search results or in project ag results, anything ivy lists it can print out to a buffer with live links.

[darkfeline]

@sooheon Yes, it's like that, but Spacemacs's current ivy project search doesn't support it (SPC s p with spacemacs-ivy)

[sooheon]

@darkfeline It works for me for any ivy instance, including spc s p. The binding should be under C-o o.

[darkfeline]

Okay, it does work, but it performs rather poorly. It seems like I need to wait for ivy to populate all the results first, which takes a lot of time, especially for a large project, otherwise ivy-occur gives me a buffer containing:

-*- mode:grep; default-directory: "<snip>" -*-

2 candidates:
./
./3 chars more

Running projectile-ag or ag by itself is much faster.

For comparison, running projectile-ag on my large project Spacemacs is almost instant, while SPC s p then C-o o I need to wait three seconds after SPC s p.

EDIT: to be fair, projectile-ag also takes three seconds or so to complete, but the buffer is open and displaying results instantly.

[kain88-de]

actually it would be nice if this is activated with ivy and counsel-projectile. It uses just wraps the counsel-ag command that is included in counsel.

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