ever since i moved from vim to neovim, my AG has started acting strange

Question

I recently switched to neovim, but ever since my AG usage have acted weird lately. Here is my current .vimrc file.

Here is my neovim init file ~/.config/nvim/init.vim:

set runtimepath^=~/.vim runtimepath+=~/.vim/after
let &packpath=&runtimepath
source ~/.vimrc
let g:python3_host_prog='/Users/abdullah/.pyenv/shims/python3'
let g:python_host_prog='/Users/abdullah/.pyenv/shims/python'

Here are the problems I'm facing:

When I search the current keyword, I get a preview of the results, before actually seeing the results

So suppose I place the cursor ontop of attachClusteredOrders here

public static function attachClusteredOrders($orders, float $distanceThreshold, int $backtrackDays)

actual behaviour

I get this preview of search results with the prompt to enter a command to continue:

Once I enter Enter, I see this

expected behaviour

I should see the search results directly without having to enter Enter

Note: here is the relevant part from my vimrc on this:

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

  " 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 K to grep word under cursor
nnoremap K :grep! "\b<C-R><C-W>\b"<CR>:cw<CR>

" command -nargs=+ -complete=file -bar Ag silent! grep! <args>|cwindow|redraw!
" above replaced with
" https://vi.stackexchange.com/a/14939/14510
function! Ag(args) abort
  execute "silent! grep!" shellescape(a:args)
  cwindow
  redraw!
endfunction

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When I run my keyboard shortcut to launch AG, nothing happens

actual behaviour

I run my keyboard shortcut to start the AG prompt \ and then I see this

but when I type enter nothing happens. But if I manually type :Ag <query> and press enter it works just fine!

expected behaviour

The keyboard shortcut should work from the first time

Note: relevant part of my vimrc:

" bind \ (backward slash) to grep shortcut
nnoremap \ :Ag<SPACE>

Answer 1

this fix worked for me so far but I'm not too happy about it b/c it still shows the intermediary output for a second then it shows the results, I'd rather it jumped straight to the results instead.

" bind K to grep word under cursor
nnoremap K :grep! "\b<C-R><C-W>\b"<CR>:cw<CR><ENTER>