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Hyperlink support? Hell yes! This has been such a frustration of using terminal tools to search in files. I love that the vscode format even linkifies by matched line. Thanks for this update burntsushi!
There is a distinct joy in showing someone rg who has never seen it before and then seeing them immediately adopt it as a daily tool. Recently a colleague had a bug. He told me it was related to the "X" that was weirdly behaving like a "Y". I fd'd "X" and then rg'd the resulting files for "Y" and found a place where some copy/pasted code was treating "X" as a "Y". Big monorepo codebase, absolutely just tore through i…
Since Visual Studio Code is using ripgrep for search one can also open the repo in the editor and use find in files to search for such things similar performance. It’s one of my favorite tools for searching specific expressions in codebases.
rg is great, I use it a lot. Recently I have also used [ambr]( https://github.com/dalance/amber ) which can do both search (ambs) and replace (ambr) recursively in your codebase. The only problem as of yet is that it does not support globbing so I cannot filter on certain filetypes only.
https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep/
> ast-grep is a AST-based tool to search code by pattern code. Think it as your old-friend grep but it matches AST nodes instead of text. You can write patterns as if you are writing ordinary code. It will match all code that has the same syntactical structure. You can use $ sign + upper case letters as wildcard, e.g. $MATCH, to match any single AST node. Think it as REGEX dot ., except it is not textual.
Hyperlink support? Hell yes! This has been such a frustration of using terminal tools to search in files. I love that the vscode format even linkifies by matched line. Thanks for this update burntsushi!
What does « hyperlink support » mean? The release notes don’t give details, except that it’s supported.
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If you haven't discovered recursive path expansion with `**` yet, which is supported by a number of popular shells, including bash, it is about to improve your shell life.
How does that work?
#!/usr/bin/perl
# perl since it's an easy way to use an arbitrary function from stdlib
use File::Glob "bsd_glob";
for (bsd_glob("{Hello,Hi} {world,everyone}...a {demo,example}")) {
print($_."\n");
}If you are an Emacs user like me, you must try out the consult-ripgrep command from the peerless Consult [1] package by Daniel Mendler: search your whole project with ripgrep and get a live preview of every matching candidate all inside of Emacs! [1]: https://github.com/minad/consult
And for those who are also on Emacs but on the Swiper/avy/ivy/counsel side of the fence, there's counsel-rg . I use it since before burntsushi (who's here on HN btw)'s ripgrep was shipped with Debian stable! > search your whole project with ripgrep and get a live preview of every matching candidate all inside of Emacs I'm sometimes searching not just my project but my entire user dir or my entire shared drive, from E…
What are these? They're not editors/IDEs.. or?
Extra life hack for Mac users — you can use mdfind first and then pipe those results into rg with xargs. Even faster. Mdfind has an index already so the results are almost instant even across huge numbers of files. Major qol improvement.
so... its grep to ack to ag to rg, is there something next?
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What does « hyperlink support » mean? The release notes don’t give details, except that it’s supported.
You have one explanation here: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/hyperlinks.html#explicit-hype...