Macvim: External search hangs on High Sierra

[bdarfler]

First off thank you so much for MacVim. Now onto my troubles ;-)

I've been using https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim configured to use https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep for searching through projects for a while now. Today I upgraded to High Sierra and that functionality now hangs MacVim. I've tried to create as minimal a test case as I can. I'm also new to debugging vim/macvim so please let me know if there is additional information I should add.

I have a minimal vimrc

" Use rg for grepping
set grepprg=rg\ --vimgrep

" https://robots.thoughtbot.com/faster-grepping-in-vim
command -nargs=+ -complete=file -bar Rg silent! grep! <args>|cwindow|redraw!

When I use the Rg command in vim it works successfully. However, I do notice that the output of the rg command shows in the terminal after quitting vim which I don't believe was the case before High Sierra (sorry for my spotty memory as I primarily use macvim).

When I use the Rg command in mvim it simply hangs.

mvim-version.txt
vim-version.txt

[markevich]

Same issues with ack.vim. Mvim is completely freezes after search

[adimitri]

I was able to solve this issue by building the latest version of MacVim with instructions here: https://github.com/macvim-dev/homebrew-macvim

I believe the issue was fixed with this commit: c958b31

[bdarfler]

@adimitri thank you! that worked for me as well. Anyone know how to get a new release cut?

[bdarfler]

Ah, https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases/tag/snapshot-138 fixes this.