Hangs if a matching file is open with another instance of vim

[fvictorio]

Hi, I tried this with a fresh VM, installing just vim (7.4.52), ag (0.19.2) and ack.vim (with vim-plug).

If you open a file foo.txt with the text lorem ipsum and then, in another terminal but in the same directory, you start another vim and execute Ack lorem, the search will hang.

If you press any key, it shows this:

Error detected while processing function ack#Ack..<SNR>23_SearchWithGrep:
line    8:
E325: ATTENTION
Error detected while processing function ack#Ack:
line   41:
E171: Missing :endif

I hope that helps!

[ches]

Hmm that's odd. If you use Ack! to not immediately open the first result, you should get the usual Vim warning/menu that a swap file already exists. That doesn't mean this isn't a bug, but it might be an acceptable workaround (I pretty much always use :Ack! myself, probably why I've never encountered this issue before).

Thanks for the report!