counsel-rg's extra arguments do not support additional paths to search from

[rieje]

According to man rg, any paths as the last arguments to the command are paths to search from. However, using the universal argument C-u counsel-rg to prompt counsel-rg for extra arguments and specifying a path as an argument will result in counsel-rg not showing results from this path and from the initial/default path, so the search results will always have nothing.

Example: C-u counsel-rg, enter ~/bin as initial directory to search for, enter ~/.emacs.d as an argument when prompted, and any string you search will return 0 results even if that string is in ~/bin.

Saw this issue posted on /r/emacs, so might as well submit a GH issue.

[abo-abo]

Thanks for the report. Could you add the full command line that does what you want with ~/bin?

[rieje]

Yes, it's very simple: rg bash ~/bin ~/documentation (rg <pattern> [path...]). Based on what I've found, the order of the paths don't matter as specifying any path as an extra argument in addition to counsel-rg's initial path will not yield any results.

[abo-abo]

OK, here's how I made it work (no code changes needed):

• enter ~/bin as the initial dir as you do already
• enter -- ~/.emacs.d as the extra args

Let me know if it works for you.

[abo-abo]

Note the space before --.

[rieje]

Thanks, that works for me. Glad you mentioned the space before --, Github didn't show that. On reddit, you linked the related issue--I'm guessing that PR will solve this issue of needing to put a space before -- or remove the need for using -- altogether? You can decide whether to close this issue.

[abo-abo]

Thanks, fixed. The extra initial space is no longer needed.