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ripgrep and emacs (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by xalixil@alien.top to c/emacs
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Hi Everyone.

I'm using emacs and ripgrep to find what I'm looking for in a folder. Ripgrep shows the result of what I'm looking beautifully. Thats great. Every time I open a result, ripgrep buffer disappears.

Does anyone know how to open a temp buffer to view result then I can close it and go back to rg result again, so I don't have to type my search query.

Thanks.

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[–] varsderk@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I use consult-ripgrep to do the search, which shows me a live preview of the match candidates. If I want to make a buffer with all the results, I call embark-act then embark-export to dump the results into a buffer.

I detail this workflow (including editing the matches!) here on my blog, which should have more details if you're lost.

[–] xalixil@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

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[–] habamax@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Using M-x grep RET with ripgrep:

;; ripgrep as grep
(setq grep-command "rg -nS --no-heading "
      grep-use-null-device nil)

Then M-g n or M-g p for the next/previous match. With (repeat-mode) consequent next/previous are just n and p.

https://asciinema.org/a/YuUtg8nswgaiBxrIm9drTXAtD

[–] bravosierrasierra@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

my solution: switch to any non-ripgrep buffer and navigate with next-error

   (defun bss/next-error-in-same-window ()
     (interactive)
     (let ((display-buffer-overriding-action '(display-buffer-same-window (inhibit-same-window . nil)))) (next-error)))
   (defun bss/previous-error-in-same-window ()
     (interactive)
     (let ((display-buffer-overriding-action '(display-buffer-same-window (inhibit-same-window . nil)))) (previous-error)))
   (global-set-key (kbd "s-[") 'bss/previous-error-in-same-window)
   (global-set-key (kbd "s-]") 'bss/next-error-in-same-window)
[–] gammarray@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I’m all about counsel or consult ripgrep, but deadgrep should get honorable mention too.

[–] hvis@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also try C-x p g for a similar UI.

Customize xref-search-program to make it use ripgrep under the covers.

[–] Kwisacks@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Which points to the grep command, so what really needs to be customize is grep-command no?

[–] zoechi@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I have a shortcut for ivy-occur in the search result to make it into a proper buffer. With [g] I can refresh the search