Highlight search only highlights results in first file opened

[mario-grgic]

When you have g:aghihghlight=1 in your .vimrc and perform :Ag findstring, findstring is highlighted only in first opened file. If you navigate to the next search result from the quickfix window (or with :cnext/:cprevious) findstring is no longer highlighted.

The following patch fixes this:

--- autoload/ag.vim 2014-03-27 23:30:46.000000000 -0400
+++ autoload/ag.vim.patched 2014-03-29 14:25:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
if exists("g:aghighlight")
let @/=a:args
set hlsearch

• call feedkeys(":let &hlsearch=1", "n")
  end

redraw!

[fanchangyong]

I encountered the same problem in my cli version vim,but my MacVim is good.

[fanchangyong]

@mario-grgic Thank you for your awesome solution, it solved the problem,but ,in my version I have to use the following command:

call feedkeys(":let &hlsearch=1", "n")

added a "" before "CR"

Thank you.

[Numkil]

Try this please. Tell me how it performs for both of you.

    if exists('g:ag_highlight')
      let @/ = matchstr(a:args, "\\v(-)\@<!(\<)\@<=\\w+|['\"]\\zs.{-}\\ze['\"]")
      call feedkeys(":let &hlsearch=1 \| echo \<CR>", 'n')
    end

This is how it's done in ack.vim

[fanchangyong]

@Numkil

Error detected while processing function ag#Ag:
line   66:
E121: Undefined variable: s:args
E116: Invalid arguments for function matchstr(s:args, "\\v(-)\@<!(\<)\@<=\\w+|['\"]\\zs.{-}\\ze['\"]")
E15: Invalid expression: matchstr(s:args, "\\v(-)\@<!(\<)\@<=\\w+|['\"]\\zs.{-}\\ze['\"]")

[Numkil]

Sorry that is a copy paste error on my behalf, ofcourse it needs to be a:args in ag.vim

[fanchangyong]

@Numkil
It works,thank you.

[Numkil]

I'll make a small pull request for this, I think it's a good idea to keep as much code in common with ack.vim so we can benefit from their work as well and maybe bugs will be found earlier. 👍

[hunhejj]

I frequently switch back and forth between working_path_mode-s and I would normally do this by typing ":let" and then choosing the most recently used let command. However because of this highlighting trick the first result is always ":let &hlsearch=1 (...)" instead of what I await.
@Numkil any ideas, how to get rid of this behaviour?