How to setup AG (Silver Searcher) to find text in files in Spacemacs on Windows

Mar 1, 2016 14:06

Add this line to your Spacemacs user config, so Helm can find AG:

(setq helm-ag-base-command "c:\\Users\\Jason\\AppData\\Roaming\\ag --vimgrep")

Make sure to change the path to where you installed AG. See the documentation for an explanation about the vimgrep argument.

Search within a project

Make sure you've setup a project and have a file in that project open.

Open a file in Spacemacs. Type SPACE s a p:

shows helm-project-do-ag option

A search window will appear. Start typing, and you'll see fuzzy-matched results:

shows the word Animal matching when typing imal

You can use the up/down arrow keys (or CTRL-j or CTRL-k) and then press the enter key to select a result and navigate to it.

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