Expansion of ~ on Windows

[elge70]

If the project is under HOME directory on windows (where HOME env variable has been defined), none of the grep utilities works correctly. But it works correctly under linux. Probably we may have to use (expand-file-name) to get the absolute path of the directory

-*- mode: urgrep; default-directory: "~/Repo/xxxx/AsyncFamily/" -*-
Urgrep started at Sun Dec 17 18:05:33

rg --color=always "--colors=path:none" "--colors=path:fg:magenta" "--colors=line:none" "--colors=column:none" "--colors=match:none" "--colors=match:fg:red" "--colors=match:style:bold" --heading -F -- myStore

[jimporter]

This works fine for me. Emacs already expands default-directory as necessary before starting the child process. (For example, if I call M-x compile cd RET on Windows under $HOME, it correctly prints c:\Users\user\....) I've also tried using find+grep on Windows (which is what I have installed) via Urgrep, and it searches under my home directory correctly.

Urgrep isn't doing anything special with the default-directory here, other than what compilation-mode does. So if there's a bug here, I don't see how it could be in this package. It's likely in one of:

1. Your configuration (try emacs -Q -l /path/to/urgrep.el to see if it still happens?)
2. Emacs itself (try running M-x compile and entering your Ripgrep command to see what happens)
3. Ripgrep

[elge70]

I use project.el to open the project and files. I use ripgrep to search for pattern and it is not working. The project stores the path of project in .emacs.d/projects file as "~/Repo" etc. That could be the problem. This problem is not seen if I am using consult-ripgrep. This can be reproduced with ugrep also.

[jimporter]

I use project.el to open the project and files. I use ripgrep to search for pattern and it is not working. The project stores the path of project in .emacs.d/projects file as "~/Repo" etc. That could be the problem. This problem is not seen if I am using consult-ripgrep. This can be reproduced with ugrep also.

The actual value of default-directory should already be expanded, so I strongly doubt that the ~ has any effect.

I believe the issue you're seeing is this: BurntSushi/ripgrep#951. I guess that means that Urgrep needs a special-case for ripgrep to always include a directory as an explicit command argument, else it will hang waiting for stdin that never arrives (but only on Windows, since Emacs can't use PTYs to communicate with child processes there).

[jimporter]

@elge70 Could you try this branch to see if things work? https://github.com/jimporter/urgrep/tree/ripgrep-windows