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A lot of people have yet to discover nvm (:
I'm surprised that ripgrep is so low, at #227. I've been using it instead of grep the last few months and I could never go back. Check it out if you haven't! Here is the repo and a technical breakdown by the author: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
I'm surprised that ripgrep is so low, at #227. I've been using it instead of grep the last few months and I could never go back. Check it out if you haven't! Here is the repo and a technical breakdown by the author: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
Probably in part because the_silver_searcher ('ag') which is a very similar tool is #65 It's the one I personally use simply because I discovered it before ripgrep came out. Plus the 'ag' commandline is super easy.
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That only sets up the value proposition for the maintainers - not for making it public. What value do any of us, not on the Homebrew maintenance team, derive from this list (other than fuel for "X is better than Y" arguments)?
It informs me of software I didn't know about and yet is popular among presumably mostly developers and power users. I need to know about that.
I'll happily tell you my toolset, but I don't use home brew and I wouldn't allow it to send my usage to google even if I did
Someone super needs to turn that list into an expanded version with a 2 line summary of each line. I found myself tabbing out to google constantly like 'fdk-aac, wow, that's a thing? cool~'
I'm surprised that ripgrep is so low, at #227. I've been using it instead of grep the last few months and I could never go back. Check it out if you haven't! Here is the repo and a technical breakdown by the author: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
It’s also only very recently that the crown has passed from ag (the silver searcher) to rg.
I'm surprised that ripgrep is so low, at #227. I've been using it instead of grep the last few months and I could never go back. Check it out if you haven't! Here is the repo and a technical breakdown by the author: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
`git grep` works just fine and it also pretty quick. i'm sure it isn't 100% the same use-case, but most of the time i'm looking inside a repo anyway, and for the other times i can just go get a coffee
If you're on Windows, ripgrep will also (seamlessly) search UTF-16.
Can someone explain the popularity of imagemagick on there? As in, are that many people tinkering with graphics via the command-line?
many, many use-cases. i use it all the time, it's just more convenient than pixelmator/gimp/photoshop for those tasks.
[Disclosure: I'm the original author of popcon so I'm biased :)]
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`git grep` works just fine and it also pretty quick. i'm sure it isn't 100% the same use-case, but most of the time i'm looking inside a repo anyway, and for the other times i can just go get a coffee
The blog post linked in the GP contains benchmarks, including `git grep`. TL;DR is that for simple queries, `git grep` is going to perform about as well as ripgrep. For more complex queries, ripgrep can be faster. If you're on Windows, ripgrep will also (seamlessly) search UTF-16.
it's just yet another tool which i'd have to learn, and yet another tool that isn't going to be installed on the remote machine.
is the productivity win worth installing it, let alone learning it compared to going from `grep` to `git grep`? for me probably not, diminishing returns. doesn't mean it isn't great software!
(also, for the sake of stats, homebrew is macOS only, although i appreciate the info)