Can't search for text with "#" symbol in it about ack.vim

[johnkchow]

I see what's going on here... my vim is expanding the '#' character into the current file name. I'll continue to investigate, sorry for the trouble :( Great job with the plugin!

[johnkchow]

So if I run :!ack "\#message", this correctly executes ack "#message" which returns the expected results. However, when I try to do :Ack "\#message", this returns no results.

[blueyed]

Try adding # to the escape call here:

silent execute a:cmd . " " . escape(l:grepargs, '|')

(plugin/ack.vim)

See also issue #14.

[blueyed]

The above hint won't work.

You will need to escape "#" and "%" in the argument to the command, but then also again for the shell (or quote it there).
:Ack "\#message" turns into ack "NAME_OF_ALTERNATE_FILEmessage".