:ZettelOpen & :ZettelSearch don't work

[Luca-sudo]

Error message: "Command failed: ag --color --smart-case --nogroup --column "^(?=.)" -G 'wiki$' "

Fzf is installed and works from terminal, so does ag.

I have also tried changing the command using g:zettel_fzf_command. The error persist, however.

[michal-h21]

This is hard to debug. I've updated my Vim plugins completely, and everything works for me in Vim 9.0 and Neovim 0.8.1. It could be caused by something in your configuration. Does the command ag --color --smart-case --nogroup --column "^(?=.)" -G 'wiki$' work from the terminal when you execute it in the directory where you have your wiki files?

[k4y4k]

hello 👋
i'm having the same issue. running that command doesn't do anything (i do have ag and fzf installed also)

take a gander:

it really doesn't like it :(

windows 11
powershell 5.1.25267.1000

❯ nvim --version
NVIM v0.8.0-1210-gd367ed9b2
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compiled by runneradmin@fv-az177-603

Features: -acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

   system vimrc file: "$VIM\sysinit.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "C:/Program Files (x86)/nvim/share/nvim"

Run :checkhealth for more info

❯ ag --version
ag version 2.2.5 ; Windows port 2021-06-04 Win64 >= Server2003 amd64
MsvcLibX 2021-06-03 ; PCRE 8.44 2020-02-12 ; pthreads4w 3.0.0 ; zlib 1.2.11

Features:
  +jit -lzma +zlib +2enc

❯ fzf --version
0.35.1 (b55f555)

my .vimrc is in my dotfiles repo.

[michal-h21]

Isn't is possible that it is an issue with Windows handling of quotes or something similar? Ag doesn't print any output, not even an error message?

[k4y4k]

No output whatsoever. It exits with a non 0 code (I can tell because my prompt goes red & n/vim complains) but there is nothing like `ag: bad argument` or `ag: invalid whatever` printed. It just quits silently. I tried with - both double and - both single quotes. No dice.

[michal-h21]

And do you use Vimwiki syntax or Markdown for your notes? If you use Markdown the command should be something like:

   ag --color --smart-case --nogroup --column "^(?=.)" -G 'md$'

If you use Markdown, then do you have correctly set ext field in your configuration? Like:

   let g:vimwiki_list = \
     [{'path':'~/scratchbox/vimwiki/markdown/','ext':'.md',\
     'syntax':'markdown'}, {"path":"~/scratchbox/vimwiki/wiki/"}]

[k4y4k]

i do use markdown.

that md command works:

and... i did/do/once again have the ext set up:
https://github.com/k4y4k/dotfiles/blob/7fa1ca2b1b3e653af58face641b2b818c758beb6/dot_vimrc.tmpl#L285

EDIT: I didn't have the . in the ext field 🤡 but that's fixed now and the issue still persists.

i feel like i'm missing something really elementary. vim-zettel worked flawlessly back in my linux days :(

[michal-h21]

Try the updated version of vim-zettel. I've found that the issue on Windows comes from limiting the search only to the file extension of the current wiki. I couldn't find a better solution than to remove this limit completely.

[k4y4k]

it works 🎉!!!!!!!!

thank you very much 🙏!!!

[gzqx]

Hi, I am having this problem again on both mac and linux.

On both of them, the error is slightly different as

[Command failed: ag --color --smart-case --nogroup --column '^(?=.)']

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EDIT: Never mind, sorry I didn't realize I need to install silver searcher separately.