SPC * not working with ripgrep 14

[tko]

Description

SPC * (spacemacs/helm-project-smart-do-search-region-or-symbol) stopped working.

Reproduction guide 🪲

• Start Emacs
• Open a file in a project, say .emacs.d/init.el
• Move cursor over any word
• Press SPC *

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔
Invalid CLI arguments: unexpected argument for option '--ignore': ".#*"

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄
Search results based on the pattern.

System Info 💻

Brand new spacemacs install with just the defaults.

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 29.1
• Spacemacs: 0.999.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 8f70193)
• Graphic display: t
• Running in daemon: nil
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(emacs-lisp helm multiple-cursors treemacs)

• System configuration features: ACL GNUTLS JSON LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY KQUEUE PDUMPER SQLITE3 THREADS TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER XWIDGETS ZLIB

• ripgrep 14.0.2

(Fairly sure it broke with update to 14 and was working with 13.)

[gbastkowski]

I "fixed" it for now by removing rg from dotspacemacs-search-tools.
Last night I saw that I could get it working with rg by setting another variable from t to nil. But have no idea anymore which variable that was.

[humitos]

I'm experimenting the same issue and I wasn't able to solve it by myself exploring the Emacs code.

I solved it for now by downgrading ripgrep to version 13. In Archlinux I ran the following command and selected version 13.

sudo downgrade ripgrep

[gbastkowski]

My quick workaound: (setq helm-ag-use-grep-ignore-list nil)

[emlun]

I have the same issue. Seems related to emacsorphanage/helm-ag#388: notice that helm-ag--grep-ignore-list-to-options adds --ignore arguments, but ripgrep needs these to be --glob or --iglob arguments.

[BenedictHW]

I use ag and not rg, does emacsorphanage/helm-ag#394 work with rg 14? Seems to pass the right arguments.

    (let ((got (helm-ag--construct-command nil))
          (expected '("rg" "--no-heading" "--glob=!*.md" "--glob=!*.el" "foo")))

[JoshTRN]

I have the same issue with SPC /, but @gbastkowski's suggestion worked for me as well.

[johnnywalker]

@BenedictHW I can confirm that emacsorphanage/helm-ag#394 works with rg 14. Here's my solution:

1. Override helm-ag to use branch from PR:

   dotspacemacs-additional-packages
   '(
     ;; support rg 14
     ;; https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/16200
     (helm-ag :location (recipe
                         :fetcher github
                         :repo "zozowell/helm-ag"
                         :branch "further-support-rg")))

2. Remove existing package: SPC SPC package-delete and type/select helm-ag

3. Restart Emacs: SPC q r

[smile13241324]

Thanks for the analysis guys :), I am going to change our target to emacsorphanage/helm-ag#394 to keep spacemacs working.

[fred-apex-ai]

I updated to the latest develop branch including cb5f5b2, restarted spacemacs but still had the issue, so I downgraded ripgrep to v13.0.0 instead. Now I can search again

[metaspace]

I updated to the latest develop branch including cb5f5b2, restarted spacemacs but still had the issue, so I downgraded ripgrep to v13.0.0 instead. Now I can search again

I had to uninstall helm-ag and reload spacemacs to make the change take effect. The package is not reinstalled automatically. Maybe the version number was not bumped or something 🤷

[pataquets]

Confirmed:
Simply deleting helm-ag package and letting Spacemacs reinstall it fixed the problem right away.
Thanks!

$ rg --version
ripgrep 14.1.0 (rev e50df40a19)