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Vim plugin for the Perl module / CLI script 'ack'
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Neovim async job control #187

Closed zegervdv closed 4 years ago

zegervdv commented 8 years ago

Is there any work being done to make Ack work asynchronously using the job control features in neovim? I know there is dispatch support (#19), but we could use the native functionality of neovim.

I've been trying this out and can send a provisional pull request. Only the basic Ack works for now, and things can most likely be improved.

ches commented 8 years ago

This isn't something I've done any work on, if it can be implemented in a way that has mostly consistent behavior between synchronous/asynchronous and for non-Neovim users, I'd be happy to consider it.

The existing Dispatch support for instance does have some caveats, see the links on #167 for example. I think a more seamless experience should be possible with Neovim.

A few people did some work on rking/ag.vim#85 that you might be able to reference, and vim-grepper also has some async support.

ches commented 6 years ago

Also relates to #209.