Can't search on '--require', or anything with leading dashes about ag.vim HOT 2 CLOSED

Have you tried escaping them?

On Jul 25, 2014, at 1:57 AM, Scott Bronson [email protected] wrote:

Hi, I wanted to find all occurrences of --require spec_helper in my files. No problem, right?

:Ag '--require spec_helper'
Except that this bombs out with ag: unrecognized option '--require spec_helper'

Is there any way to use a search string that has leading dashes?

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Huh, after some experimentation this seems to work:

:Ag "\--require spec_helper"

Not really sure why, I don't see it mentioned in the docs. Ah well, I'm glad it works. Good call npearson72.

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