Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
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Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#2Not exactly sure what it is, but I really like this presentation format.
Thank you, have been trying to motivate myself to switch to ack/ag for a while. This seems like it might be what I needed.
Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#3as a long time user of `find . -name "*.foo" -exec grep -Hin {} \;` moving to ack has been great! I love the syntax and the speed and the fact that it actually respects your ignore files. ripgrep is great too. ag on the other hand is recommended by everyone but doesn't seem to respect ignores or understand modern ignore syntax. give it a pass.
https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/385
its been over 4 years... its had its chance.
Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#4as a long time user of `find . -name "*.foo" -exec grep -Hin {} \;` moving to ack has been great! I love the syntax and the speed and the fact that it actually respects your ignore files. ripgrep is great too. ag on the other hand is recommended by everyone but doesn't seem to respect ignores or understand modern ignore syntax. give it a pass. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/385 its been over 4 y…
I love ag for one purpose: as a lightning quick “find other instances of the currently highlighted word” helper for Emacs. It’s great for that.
Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#5What has always amazed me is how super fast ack is in my use cases.
Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#6Not exactly sure what it is, but I really like this presentation format. Thank you, have been trying to motivate myself to switch to ack/ag for a while. This seems like it might be what I needed.
Good use of color as well as a visual reference for when the tools share a feature. I agree it's a good presentation.
As for search, I'm on Windows and I like to use FileLocator Pro.
Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#7switched from ag to rg a few months ago and have nothing but good things to say about the experience.
Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#8The chart was created by Andy Lester, the creator of ack, who thinks that more open source projects should point to their "competing" projects because it's not really a competition: http://blog.petdance.com/2018/01/02/the-best-open-source-pro...
Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#9I’m stuck with rg right now because it’s the only ine which correctly handles gitignore files. Generally quite happy with it but I wish it could also use a more powerful regex engine for some less common cases.
Most annoying thing is that $ does not work with windows newlines.
Re: Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep
#10switched from ag to rg a few months ago and have nothing but good things to say about the experience.
I made the switch too (from grep to rg). I really like it so far. It is a little more faster than grep for my use!