How I use my terminal

I love this, I've been iterating on workflows like this for something like a decade now. Over time I've tried to peel back as many of my custom layers as possible, because all of those layers have a maintenance cost.

Stock Vim (without `tmux`) can actually do most of what's shared in this post with `rg --vimgrep restore_tool | vim -c cb -` (`vim -c cb -` is my favorite feature in Vim; I find it strange that it's so rarely used or talked about).

(Since re-running the `rg` search can be undesirable, and I often like to analyze results in a terminal before opening them in Vim. I use a custom `tmux` command to copy the output of the last command [using this trick that involves adding a Unicode character to your prompt https://ianthehenry.com/posts/tmux-copy-last-command/], then I send that into Vim with e.g., `tmux saveb - | vim -c cb -`.)

"rg --vimgrep restore_tool | vim -c cb -" looks like I want to use it. However, it doesn't work for me. vim says it had errors while processing, and says I haven't saved the buffer. I get the rg result displayed, but how do I navigate to a place?

Use `cb!` instead of `cb`:

    rg --vimgrep restore_tool | vim -c cb! -

You might also wanna open the quickfix list by default:

    rg --vimgrep restore_tool | vim -c cb! -c copen -

You can learn more about how to navigate it using `:h quickfix`.