Spacemacs find text (SPC /) not working

Question

I recently installed Spacemacs on Windows. The "smart search" command SPC / does not work. When I press SPC / I get the error:

Wrong type argument: commandp, helm-do-grep

There seem to be some issue that mention this - https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/8463

Anyone know what's up?

Answer 1

If my understanding is correct, your spacemacs is not finding ag or grep. Spacemacs uses ag, grep, ack, pt for search. If ag is not found it falls back to grep and so on. Grep, ack are *nix commands. You probably have to install cygwin and add it to the path.

But the best way is to install this port of ag for windows and add it to the path. ag for windows

Answer 2

This isn't a solution, but it is a workaround that I ended up using. I was used to using Spacemacs on Mac. I installed it on windows and encountered the above error. On Windows it was using grep by default for searching, whereas on Mac it was using ag.

I installed ag on Windows that the search is back to working now. I installed ag following the instructions on here. It uses scoop for the installation which is installed via Powershell.