Why do I get “Search failed with status 1” when I search for backlinks?
Denote uses Emacs’ Xref to find backlinks. Xref requires xargs and one of grep or ripgrep, depending on your configuration.
This is usually not an issue on *nix systems, but the necessary executables are not available on Windows Emacs distributions. Please ensure that you have both xargs and either grep or ripgrep available within your PATH environment variable.
If you have git on Windows installed, then you may use the following code (adjust the git’s installation path if necessary):