counsel-git-grep - please add more control

[jferguson-gnubio]

Counsel-git-grep is very nice, but it would be much better if you could edit some of the grep options, perhaps via a hydra?

e.g. you could toggle flags etc., much like with magit (-i, -w etc.)

or define a file match pattern - *.js, *.py etc. - very useful on large mixed language repos

[PythonNut]

Would it be okay to just prompt for the command line to run instead of making an interface that necessarily cannot express the full spectrum of options you could choose?

[jferguson-gnubio]

That probably would work fine, yes.

[abo-abo]

Thanks. This is useful for grepping in only certain files.
What I do now, given counsel-git-grep is bound to C-c j: C-u C-c j M-i -- '*.cc' C-m.
Afterwards, this query will be available until Emacs restart.

[jferguson-gnubio]

That's excellent - thank you. I much appreciate your work. I've just switched to ivy/swiper/counsel from helm after I still found helm awkward and unintuitive at times after 8 months of trying. I'm much preferring your lighter touch.