[question] Toggle options and re-run search in result buffer about urgrep HOT 5 CLOSED

As you noticed, the way to do this is via C-u g and then tweaking the search using the minibuffer commands. There's probably an argument for reducing the number of keystrokes to do this, though I'm not sure I'd want it to be a single keystroke. It'd be pretty easy to accidentally hit them (but then on the other hand, it's just as easy to accidentally hit q and bury the buffer). Maybe mappings like M-s c in the Urgrep buffer would be ok (i.e. you could avoid typing C-u g before and RET after, so that's 3 or 4 fewer keystrokes depending on how you want to count things).

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Thanks for the answer!

Accidental typing wasn't an issue with the rg package. TBH, with either ripgrep and ugrep search is usually so fast, the main issue was accumulation of results in the buffer, slowing emacs down :(

I'll try/experiment a bit.

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I think it makes sense to keep this open, since I want to at least think about what (if anything) to do here. Making it easier to edit your search parameters is a pretty reasonable feature to add.

As an aside, while it doesn't help with Emacs slowness, the latest dev version of Urgrep now supports outline-minor-mode, so that's another way of managing overwhelming results: you can collapse all the sections and then only expand the files you want to look at results for.

(And for searches with many, many results, I do wonder if some of the slowness is due to the regexes Urgrep uses to fontify the results. Maybe simplifying those regexes or doing more work in urgrep-filter would help performance...)

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I was looking at introducing a new custom toggle for "ignore-files". Specifically, I want to be able to toggle the presence of "--no-ignore-files". Right now we have ignore-hidden, which I never used in the past, whereas what usually happens to me is that I have a default set of ignore rules for a project that I occasionally want to exclude.

I don't see an easy way to append a new flag or flags programmatically to the current tool, sort of "extra-flags", to implement this on top of the current interface.

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@wavexx I've started implementing something for this by adding single-key bindings for expanding context in the results buffer (C, B, A). I'll keep adding more commands like this over the next few days, but if you're impatient (or just want a toggle for something unusual), you can write your own commands based on this commit: 92e3fc9

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