How to dismiss the bottom search bar

Question

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So I have the silver search thing going:

" The Silver Searcher
if executable('ag')
  " Use ag over grep
  let &grepprg = "ag --nogroup --nocolor --ignore wiki --ignore tags"

  " Use ag in CtrlP for listing files. Lightning fast and respects .gitignore
  let g:ctrlp_user_command = 'ag %s -l --nocolor -g ""'

  " ag is fast enough that CtrlP doesn't need to cache
  let g:ctrlp_use_caching = 0
endif


" bind \ (backward slash) to grep shortcut
command -nargs=+ -complete=file -bar Ag silent! grep! <args>|cwindow|redraw!
nnoremap \ :Ag<SPACE>

when I click on \ I get the prompt to search, which is great, it looks like this:

I got three questions:

1. how do I dismiss the bottom bar? I'm not sure what that action is called.. ideally I would connect that to some keyboard binding

2. How can i make it so that when i click on a file (or perform some keybinding on a file in the list below).. it automatically jumps to the file AND dismiss the bottom bar?

3. how can I (with a keyboard shortuct) make the bottom bar higher and smaller? sometimes that's useful when i got tonnes of results

many thanks

Answer 1

It's called the quickfix window. (See :h quickfix)

1. It can be dismissed with the command :cclose or with any regular window command. e.g. Ctrl-Wc or Ctrl-Wo.

2. One way you could do this:

   nnoremap <expr> <CR> &buftype=='quickfix' ? "\<CR>:cclose\<CR>" : "\<CR>"
   

   Another alternative would be to use an autocommand to create a buffer-local mapping only in the quickfix window, or just to use a new trigger for your jump-to-error-and-close mapping. (e.g. <leader><cr>)

3. You can use the regular window resizing commands:

   • Ctrl-W+
   • Ctrl-W-

   These take counts, so you can resize more rapidly with commands such as:

   • 5Ctrl-W+