Ripgrep 14 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Ripgrep 14 Released

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Post by indymike » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 3:22 AM UTC

e12e wrote: post #67

TacticalCoder wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Swiper/avy/ivy/counsel What are these? They're not editors/IDEs.. or?

Oh, they are Emacs extensions.

Re: Ripgrep 14 Released

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Post by indymike » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 3:35 AM UTC

anotherpaulg wrote: post #44

My muscle memory is still dialed in to `ack`, but I recently built an open source tool called `grep-ast` [0] that serves a similar function to ripgrep, ack, etc. The difference is that it shows matching lines in the context of the functions/methods/classes/etc that contain them. It uses the abstract syntax tree (AST) of the source code to show how the matching lines fit into the code structure. It shows relevant code…

Thanks for making this. Immediately useful.

Re: Ripgrep 14 Released

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Post by e12e » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 12:49 PM UTC

indymike wrote: post #71

e12e wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Swiper/avy/ivy/counsel What are these? They're not editors/IDEs.. or?

Oh, they are Emacs extensions.

Ah, thank you. My brain inserted a "not" in place of "also", so I read:

> And for those who are also on Emacs but on the Swiper/avy/ivy/counsel side of the fence

As "And for those who are not on Emacs but..."