How to make fzf with Ag not display files and folders from .gitignore in vim?

[rihannarickeminem]

Checklist

• I have read through the manual page (man fzf)
• I have searched through the existing issues
• For bug reports, I have checked if the bug is reproducible in the latest version of fzf

Output of fzf --version

0.57.0 (0476a65)

OS

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows
• Etc.

Shell

• bash
• zsh
• fish

Problem / Steps to reproduce

I have specified let $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND = 'ag -g ""' in vim and in .zshrc i have export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='ag --hidden --ignore dist node_modules .git -g ""'
but still getting an output with files from dist folder
the dist folder is in .gitignore

# build
**/dist
**/build
**/dist-zip

Mac M2 macvim

fzf --version
0.57.0 (0476a65)

at the end if it will be ignored , how can i make it include if i need ?

the only way (from here mileszs/ack.vim#210 (comment)) i have made it work is to add .ignore file in my project with

dist

but how to make it work for all projects
this solution does not work junegunn/fzf.vim#453 (comment)

Here is parts for fzf in my config

```Plug 'junegunn/fzf', { 'dir': '~/.fzf', 'do': './install --all' } Plug 'junegunn/fzf.vim'

let g:go_imports_autosave = 0

Plug 'drmikehenry/vim-fontsize'

nmap = FontsizeBegin
nmap + FontsizeInc
nmap - FontsizeDec
nmap 0 FontsizeDefault

" {{{
let g:fzf_nvim_statusline = 0 " disable statusline overwriting

" nnoremap :GFiles
nnoremap :Files
nnoremap a :Buffers
nnoremap A :Windows
nnoremap ; :BLines
nnoremap o :BTags
nnoremap O :Tags
nnoremap ? :History
nnoremap / :execute 'Ag ' . input('Ag/')
nnoremap . :AgIn

nnoremap K :call SearchWordWithAg()
vnoremap K :call SearchVisualSelectionWithAg()
nnoremap gl :Commits
nnoremap ga :BCommits
nnoremap ft :Filetypes

" https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/31012/what-does-plug-do-in-vim
imap (fzf-complete-file-ag)
imap (fzf-complete-line)
imap (fzf-complete-word)

function! SearchWordWithAg()
execute 'Ag' expand('')
endfunction

function! SearchVisualSelectionWithAg() range
let old_reg = getreg('"')
let old_regtype = getregtype('"')
let old_clipboard = &clipboard
set clipboard&
normal! ""gvy
let selection = getreg('"')
call setreg('"', old_reg, old_regtype)
let &clipboard = old_clipboard
execute 'Ag' selection
endfunction

function! SearchWithAgInDirectory(...)
call fzf#vim#ag(join(a:000[1:], ' '), extend({'dir': a:1}, g:fzf#vim#default_layout))
endfunction
command! -nargs=+ -complete=dir AgIn call SearchWithAgInDirectory()
" }}}
nnoremap f :FZF -q =expand("")
function! s:getVisualSelection()
let [line_start, column_start] = getpos("'<")[1:2]
let [line_end, column_end] = getpos("'>")[1:2]
let lines = getline(line_start, line_end)

if len(lines) == 0
    return ""
endif

let lines[-1] = lines[-1][:column_end - (&selection == "inclusive" ? 1 : 2)]
let lines[0] = lines[0][column_start - 1:]

return join(lines, "\n")

endfunction

vnoremap f :FZF -q =getVisualSelection()
let g:fzf_history_dir = '~/.local/share/fzf-history'
let $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND = 'ag --ignore dist -g ""'

" Open files in horizontal split
nnoremap s :call fzf#run({
\ 'down': '40%',
\ 'sink': 'botright split' })

" Open files in vertical horizontal split
nnoremap v :call fzf#run({
\ 'right': winwidth('.') / 2,
\ 'sink': 'vertical botright split' })

</details> 

[junegunn]

export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='ag --hidden --ignore dist node_modules .git -g ""'

If I'm not mistaken, --ignore only takes a single argument, so the command is invalid.

cd /tmp
mkdir foo
cd foo

ag --hidden --ignore dist node_modules .git -g ""

gives errors

ERR: Error stat()ing: node_modules
ERR: Error opening directory node_modules: No such file or directory
ERR: Error stat()ing: .git
ERR: Error opening directory .git: No such file or directory

Anyway, having let $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND = 'ag --ignore dist -g ""' alone in .vimrc makes :FZF "gitignore" files as expected.

To make sure that :FZF is picking up the variable, I even tried changing it to

let $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND = 'seq 100; ag --ignore dist -g ""; seq 100'

and yes, :FZF does use it and shows numbers around the list.

[rihannarickeminem]

@junegunn does not work for me =*((

[junegunn]

I can't reproduce the problem. fzf simply reads the output of the command. You should make sure that the command itself is working as expected. i.e.eval "$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND".

[rihannarickeminem]

@junegunn this command eval "$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND"
gives this output:

[junegunn]

You should check if the command in the variable works as expected on your shell. Not on vim.