counsel-git-grep : how to specify "." or "*" in search pattern

[shalin24]

May be I am missing something basic, but I can't figure out how to specify "." or "*" in the search pattern while using counsel-git-grep.

In swiper, I am able to use "." to specify "." and "*" to specify "*". Should the same thing work for counsel-git-grep also? Is there another way to specify these characters in the search pattern?

[abo-abo]

You have to escape them: \. or \*.

[shalin24]

That is exactly what I tried. It works with swiper and counsel-ag, but does not work with counsel-git-grep.

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[abo-abo]

Did you customize any setting for counsel-git-grep? It's pretty easy to mimic counsel-git-grep by typing the same command into the terminal.

[shalin24]

I have not customized any settings for counsel-git-grep. Here is what I have:

counsel-git-grep-cmd-default
git --no-pager grep --full-name -n --no-color -i -e %S

counsel-git-grep-cmd
git --no-pager grep --full-name -n --no-color -i -e %S

I tried counsel-git-grep for the patterns abc.sv and abc\.sv, and this is what I see for the history:

counsel-git-grep-history
 (#("abc\\.sv" 0 7
   (ivy-index 0))
 #("abc.sv" 0 6
   (ivy-index 1))

I tried to mimic the greps in a terminal. Here is the output:

% git --no-pager grep --full-name -n --no-color -i -e 'abc.sv'
verif/lib/intf/spm_xfi_consume_ring_if.sv:25:// abc_sv
verif/lib/intf/spm_xfi_consume_ring_if.sv:26:// abc.sv

% git --no-pager grep --full-name -n --no-color -i -e 'abc\.sv'
verif/lib/intf/spm_xfi_consume_ring_if.sv:26:// abc.sv

% git --no-pager grep --full-name -n --no-color -i -e 'abc\\.sv'
%

So it looks like with counsel-git-grep, \ gets translated to \\.

Or am I missing something or doing something wrong?

[abo-abo]

It seems I'm using a custom command myself. Can you try it with my setting:

(setq counsel-git-grep-cmd-default
      "git --no-pager grep --full-name -n --no-color -i -e '%s' -- './*' ':!*.htm'")

[shalin24]

That works. With your custom command, when I run counsel-git-grep, and type abc\.sv, the first line in the output is the git command being run, and it contains only one \, and the search results are as expected.

[abo-abo]

Fixed, thanks.