Changelog

Previous Versions

master

Ag search commands now show N lines of context when called with numeric prefix argument N.

Ag search commands can now group output. See ag-group-matches.

Docstring improvements.

0.47

Added a workaround for an ag bug on windows where results were shown without filenames (see issue #97). Note this only applies when ag-highlight-search is nil.

Fixed an issue where ag-projects-regexp escaped its input, resulting in literal searches rather than regexp searches (see #94).

Detection of project roots now supports bzr.

0.46

Replaced calls to ido-completing-read with completing-read. This allows helm users to use helm completion. To continue using ido for completion, please install ido-ubiquitous-mode. This only affects ag-files and ag-project-files.

Fixed an issue where pressing k would kill the search results buffer, even if evil-mode was active. k now only kills the results buffer if you’re not using evil.

Search results buffers now include a summary of the total number of results and the number of files matched.

When choosing a search term, the prompt is now empty. Ag.el will use the default if no search term is given, but saves a keystroke if you don’t want the default. You can edit the default value by pressing M-n in the minibuffer.

Added ag-search-finished-hook, a hook that’s run when the search is completed.

0.45

Fixed another case where ag-dired* commands ignored ag-executable.

Fixed an issue with ag-dired where inputs would be quoted twice.

Added ag-ignore-list which allows you specify patterns to ignore.

Fixed a crash with ag-files when using a built-in file type.

0.44

Fixed a bug with ag-dired* commands where it ignored ag-executable.

Improved alignment of the output from ag-dired* commands.

ag-dired* commands now call dired-before-readin-hook and dired-after-readin-hook where appropriate.

Fixed a bug with path name escaping in ag-dired* commands.

Fixed a bug with calling ag on Windows such that you can’t jump to results from the results buffer (you just get ‘No Error Here’).

Minor docs improvements.

0.43

When calling ag with a prefix argument, we now place the point after the last argument in the minibuffer. See #48.

Minor docstring improvements.

0.42

When passing a prefix argument, ag.el now presents you with the whole command so you can edit any part, as a string. See #38.

Documentation and docstring improvements, mostly around clarifying what regular expression syntax ag.el expects.

0.41

Added a setting ag-executable which allows you to override the name or path of the ag executable.

Added support for Emacs 23.4.

Buffers created by ag.el are now always named *ag: FOO*.

ag-dired now respects the value of ag-reuse-buffers.

0.40

ag-project-regexp now defaults to the escaped value at point, as an escaped regular expression. For example, if point is at foo-bar, then the suggested search regexp is foo\-bar.

ag-regexp-project-at-point is now just an obsolete alias for ag-project-regexp.

0.39

The commands ag, ag-files, ag-regexp, ag-project, ag-project-files and ag-project-regexp can now take a prefix argument. For example, C-u M-x ag. If given a prefix argument, you are also prompted for the flags to pass ag itself.

0.38

ag-dired and ag-project-dired should now work on Mac OS X (previously we assumed xargs supported GNU extensions).

0.37

Added ag-dired and ag-project-dired to search for files matching a pattern.

0.36

Fixed a bug in ag-regexp and ag-project-regexp due to an internal API change (ag/search now uses keyword arguments).

0.35

Added the ag-files and ag-project-files commands.

Note that the internal API changed in this release: ag/search now takes regexp as a keyword argument instead of a positional argument. I’m not aware of any external packages depending on this, so I’m not incrementing the major version.

0.34

Specifying the path as an argument to ag, allowing ag.el to do searches on Windows.

0.33

Fixed a bug with ag.el not searching if shell-command-switch had been modified by the user.

0.32

Adding ag-project-root-function which allows users to override how ag.el finds the root of a project.

0.31

Ag.el faces (which are ag-match-face and ag-hit-face``x) are defined with ``defface, so you can use customize-face on them.

0.30

Improved quoting of arguments passed to ag.

0.29

Added customisable variable ag-reuse-window. If set to t (defaults to nil) then selecting a search result hides the results buffer and shows the match, rather than using a different window in the frame.

0.28

-project functions now handle the case of multiple nested VCS repositories. Ag.el now takes the most deepest subdirectory, so if /foo/bar is a subversion repo that contains a git repo /foo/bar/baz, ag.el will search /foo/bar/baz.

0.27

Ag.el autopopulates the minibuffer with the text at point, or the active selection. If this text was read-only, the minibuffer text would also be read-only. It’s now always possible to edit the text in the minibuffer.

0.26

Fixed a crash when refreshing a search buffer by pressing g.

0.25

Added commands ag-kill-buffers and ag-kill-other-buffers to close old search result buffers. Also added a customisable variable ag-reuse-buffers so users can optionally stop ag.el creating multiple buffers.

0.24

Search results buffers now take the form *ag text:something dir:~/some/path*, so new searches will create new buffers.

0.23

ag.el now detects the project root for Mercurial repositories in the ag-project* commands.

0.22

The keys n and p now move between matches, similar to the behaviour of dired.

0.21

Added a new face ag-hit-face to distinguish from ag-match-face.

0.20

Fixed next-error and previous-error not working with ag.el (broken in v0.18).

0.19

ag now has a default search term of the symbol at point.

0.18

Search results are now highlighted as information, rather than errors. The ag output is now more consistent with grep.el.

0.17

The interactive functions provided by ag.el are now autoloaded.

0.16

Removed the unused variable ag-last-buffer

0.15

Fixed ag-project and ag-project-regexp not working in buffers that aren’t associated with a specific file, such as dired and magit buffers.

0.14

The compilation mode regexp is now more accurate, so you should no longer get ‘compilation-next-error: No error here’ when trying to open a file in the results list.

0.13

Current stable ag (0.13.1) doesn’t support --color-match, ag.el now only highlights when ag-highlight-search is non-nil (the default is nil).

If you’re upgrading ag.el and your ag version is 0.14 or higher, you need to explicitly enable highlighting:

(setq ag-highlight-search t)