What Is It?

This plugin maps ga to do a search using mileszs/ack.vim.

This plugin is a fork of Chun-Yang/vim-action-ag that supports mileszs/ack.vim instead of the now-deprecated rking/ag.vim.

Installation

Install this plugin and its dependency, mileszs/ack.vim, either manually or by using your Vim plug-in manager of choice.

If you want to use ag (The Silver Searcher) with this plugin, simply configure ack.vim accordingly.

Examples

• Normal Mode
  • gaiw to search the word
  • gai' to search the words inside single quotes.
• Visual Mode
  • ga to search the selected text

Configuration

Recommended Shortcuts

" use * to search current word in normal mode
nmap * <Plug>AckActionWord
" use * to search selected text in visual mode
vmap * <Plug>AckActionVisual

Escape characters

There are some special characters used in Ack/Ag, like '$' which is treated as the end of the line. Most of the time we use literal meaning of these characters. You can set escapes for these characters by setting g:vim_action_ack_escape_chars.

This is the default setting for g:vim_action_ack_escape_chars:

let g:vim_action_ack_escape_chars = '#%.^$*+?()[{\\|'