Ches Martin

Thanks, I agree with fixing the general problem. The way ack.vim's mappings are implemented and configured is brittle and clumsy, I've been thinking about overhauling it along the lines of...

> It seems like a file is open in the first opened split. This is quite irritating. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a limitation of ack.vim ?...

It sounds as if the plugin isn't loading. There are two likely paths for that: - Something is wrong with your Pathogen setup - ack.vim can't find your `ack` executable...

Apologies for delay in following up here. A kludgy solution might be to set `g:ackprg` with a full path, e.g. ``` vim let g:ackprg = "/home/username/bin/ack -s -H --nocolor --nogroup...

@skiz The plugin [does look for ack-grep](https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim/blob/0a7d28bfb130696f73d122cac99d8903e066c896/plugin/ack.vim#L13)—perhaps your version of the plugin is old, or `executable('ack-grep')` fails in your Vim for some reason?

@thenickcox Could you please verify that `ack.vim` is showing up in `:scriptnames` (a more easily-readable alternative to `:echo &runtimepath` mentioned above)?

Also, please share if `:echo executable('ack')` does _not_ print "1".

Yeah the highlighting "support" is and might always be a hack, because of course ack's regex engine is entirely different from Vim's. If anyone has ideas on improving it though,...

Hi, I tried ag.vim a bit at various times but I don't think I'm familiar with this feature—do you mean that you could edit lines in a search results window...

**TL; DR** my suggestion for the time being is to install [QFEnter](https://github.com/yssl/QFEnter) and configure it how you like, and set these to ensure that ack.vim stays out of QFEnter's way:...