counsel-ag shows no output

Question

I try to use counsel-ag to grep through all files in a directory for a string. Basically, I thought this is what it was made for. I have ag 2.2.0 installed via macports on OS X 10.10.5 and it works fine in shell mode.

If I am in the same directory an invoke M-x counsel-ag I get the ag prompt but if I type a string I get no matches but the message No matches found. I don't see any message or error. Is there any way to check what ag is doing and why ivy is not displaying the candidates like it does in other cases?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '18 at 20:34

I think it has something to do with ivy-prescient. Although, there is ivy-prescient-excluded-commands which contains counsel-ag to prevent the regex generation from being disturbed I have to add

(setq ivy-re-builders-alist
        '((swiper . ivy--regex-plus)
          (counsel-ag . ivy--regex-plus)
          (counsel-rg . ivy--regex-plus)
          (t      . ivy-prescient-re-builder)))

to get counsel-ag working again.

counsel-ag shows no output

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