search after expand region fail with error

[shelper]

Description

when using expand region, "SPC v /" or "SPC v f" fail with error,

Reproduction guide 🪲

• Start Emacs

• in normal mode, press "SPC v /"

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔

fail with error message:
"let: Wrong type argument: commandp, helm-do-grep"

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄

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System Info 💻

• OS: windows-nt
• Emacs: 25.1.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.7
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. c42e487)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

• System configuration features:

Backtrace 🐾

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument commandp helm-do-grep)
call-interactively(helm-do-grep)
(let ((projectile-require-project-root nil)) (call-interactively (spacemacs//helm-do-search-find-tool "helm-project-do" dotspacemacs-search-tools default-inputp)))
spacemacs/helm-project-smart-do-search(t)
spacemacs/helm-project-smart-do-search-region-or-symbol()
funcall-interactively(spacemacs/helm-project-smart-do-search-region-or-symbol)
call-interactively(spacemacs/helm-project-smart-do-search-region-or-symbol)
(lambda nil (call-interactively (quote spacemacs/helm-project-smart-do-search-region-or-symbol)))()
eval(((lambda nil (call-interactively (quote spacemacs/helm-project-smart-do-search-region-or-symbol)))))
(lambda nil (interactive) (setq this-command (` (, (cadr (quote ("/" (lambda nil ...))))))) (or (minibufferp) (message "%s" "Type v to expand again, V to contract, r to reset, e to edit, / to search in project, f to search in files, b to search in opened buffers")) (eval (` (, (cdr (quote ("/" (lambda nil ...))))))))()
funcall-interactively((lambda nil (interactive) (setq this-command (` (, (cadr (quote ("/" (lambda nil ...))))))) (or (minibufferp) (message "%s" "Type v to expand again, V to contract, r to reset, e to edit, / to search in project, f to search in files, b to search in opened buffers")) (eval (` (, (cdr (quote ("/" (lambda nil ...)))))))))
call-interactively((lambda nil (interactive) (setq this-command (` (, (cadr (quote ("/" (lambda nil ...))))))) (or (minibufferp) (message "%s" "Type v to expand again, V to contract, r to reset, e to edit, / to search in project, f to search in files, b to search in opened buffers")) (eval (` (, (cdr (quote ("/" (lambda nil ...)))))))) nil nil)
command-execute((lambda nil (interactive) (setq this-command (` (, (cadr (quote ("/" (lambda nil ...))))))) (or (minibufferp) (message "%s" "Type v to expand again, V to contract, r to reset, e to edit, / to search in project, f to search in files, b to search in opened buffers")) (eval (` (, (cdr (quote ("/" (lambda nil ...)))))))))

[bmag]

Apparently the command helm-do-grep was removed upstream at December 2015, but we still use helm-do-grep in spacemacs//helm-do-search-find-tool. The solution is to either implement helm-do-grep in Spacemacs or find a different existing command to use.

[longtomjr]

I get this same error when just doing "SPC /"

Related:
https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki/Grep

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