How to save ivy results to a buffer like with rgrep?

[neojski]

Since resuming the search with counsel-ag doesn't quite work (#1095) and it's not even obvious how to do it I was wondering whether it's possible to just save the search results to a file and navigate through them using SPC e n and SPC e p.

There's C-c C-s. However, it asks for a file (if I give it a file it asks again, actually) and then after I save it to, say, /tmp and try to use it with grep mode it doesn't quite work because it's in the wrong directory.

I think it would just be very useful to add something to counsel-ag's hydra menu to bring up something similar to grep buffer in the appropriate grep-mode. Or maybe even a dedicated keybinding for that.

[manuel-uberti]

If I understand what you want to do, you can switch from ivy to ivy-occur with C-c C-o and save that buffer.

[neojski]

Oh, yes, it's that.

There is some problems with it, though:

• in the make plain emacs if I do C-c C-o on the big search it just freezes until it finishes search
• in spacemacs it doesn't freeze but it only shows this:

-*- mode:grep; default-directory: "/home/neo/" -*-


2 candidates:
./
./3 chars more

[manuel-uberti]

I don't use Spacemacs, but it always works fine for me, although I rarely have more than 50/60 search results.

Let's wait @abo-abo on this.

[abo-abo]

in the make plain emacs if I do C-c C-o on the big search it just freezes until it finishes search

This is the intended behavior. For things like grep or counsel-locate it's almost never useful to have the partial results on occur. I always want all results, even if I have to wait a second or two.