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.
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)
Using
M-x grep RET
withripgrep
:;; ripgrep as grep (setq grep-command "rg -nS --no-heading " grep-use-null-device nil)
Then
M-g n
orM-g p
for the next/previous match. With(repeat-mode)
consequent next/previous are justn
andp
.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
thenembark-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.
I’m all about counsel or consult ripgrep, but deadgrep should get honorable mention too.
Also try
C-x p g
for a similar UI.Customize
xref-search-program
to make it use ripgrep under the covers.Which points to the
grep
command, so what really needs to be customize isgrep-command
no?
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