Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> writes: > I can try debugging org-grep, but I don't know where I should start.
I would either step through org-grep (using C-u C-M-x first over any line of the org-grep definition within org-grep.el, or add (message ...) lines within the function before to later check the *Messages* buffer, and after calling org-grep the normal way to trigger the trace, pay special attention to the argument given to shell-command. That command, repeated in a mere shell outside Emacs, should find hits in your Org files. If not, I would play with that command to see how it should have been written to be successful, then amend org-grep so it generates the proper command. If everything that should be found gets found, then I'd suspect the code after shell-command which reformats the output, and step through it to find where it does it wrong. The code is small, so the bug does not have much room to hide :-). François
