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How can I save the result of a ripgrep search (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I use ripgrep for searching in a project and I want to save the ripgrep buffer with the links.

Simply saving the buffer just removes the links and leaves only plain text.

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(The reason for this is, I want to go through several parts of the code which I found with ripgrep. This will take some days, and I want to be able to keep track of my progress by going through the search results and delete the ones I already worked on.)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Saving and loading the *rg* buffer works for me as the saved file's first line is -*- mode: rg; default-directory: "/path/to/dir/" -*- to enable rg-mode on load. How are you saving the buffer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for your answer. I just use C-x C-s for saving the buffer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

embark-export is your friend, I use it all the time!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

using embark, you need to set a keybind to embark, then use the ripgrep normally, when the minibuffer returns the results, call the embark via keybind and use embark-export, that is bind to E, then embark will create a buffer with the results from minibuffer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for your help. Embark looks interesting, although the rg search results are not shown in a mini buffer, but in a normal buffer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

for rg search, are you using (the amazing) consult-ripgrep?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

* in my emacs configuration at least

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I would use Embark for this:

C-. (embark-act)

follow by

S (embark-collect)

This will convert whatever content you have in the mini-buffer into an ordinary buffer that you can keep, browse and even save.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not sure that matches your need, but rg.el (https://github.com/dajva/rg.el) has rg-list-searches, which will list your searches in an "Ibuffer" buffer.

Should be available for as long as Emacs session and saveable if needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I use consult-ripgrep and consult-repeat to run last search again.