helm-rg bounce and wgrep-ag

[cmccloud]

Really enjoying how this is coming along. Just got the latest build, and I thought that maybe before spending too much more time on helm-rg--bounce, it would be worth it to take a look at how helm-grep-do-ag does it with wgrep-helm. It might be easier to just format helm-rg results appropriately and let wgrep-helm handle it from there. Take care.

[cmccloud]

Also, bounce seems to fail to read the updated directory in a search that is rerun from a new directory using M-d.

[cosmicexplorer]

I'll take a look right now! I would love to contribute to an existing project if possible. "bounce mode" is "experimental" right now, until I add testing (soon, if wgrep-helm works well enough), but I will look into the issue you described with using M-d after that.

[cosmicexplorer]

So after looking through wgrep and its frontends, the main issue I see with using that code is that the contents seem to come directly from the command's output, while most of the development on "bounce mode" has been to make it a much more active editing interface, allowing:

• editing file names
• expanding the lines before and after just the current line by reading from the source file
• adding newlines in the edited text
• re-reading the line contents from a specific file
• saving the results of a single file without saving all of the rest yet

Most of the "bounce mode" development I see as being something that could be layered on top of wgrep, as I see it, to add this kind of "live editing" or whatever. wgrep seems to have many frontends (including a helm one), but not a ripgrep one, which is very interesting. I'll absolutely keep a close eye on that package -- as of now the current development seems like it might be orthogonal to wgrep and thinking about how this would slot into that is very interesting. Thanks a lot for pointing it out!

[cosmicexplorer]

Also, bfc3a16 should have fixed the M-d issue! I just made sure to change to the directory using the variable we're already using for the helm buffer.