Normally I prefer built-in tools, but Ag is so dramatically faster than grep, that I can’t imagine going back. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher …
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@szafranek I haven't used built-in search in my text editors, since I discovered Ag2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mrgnrdrck
That didn’t last long: I switched to ripgrep. It’s a faster, drop-in replacement for ag. Killer feature: --replace flag.
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Replying to @szafranek
however, ag is still faster in my limited test scenario?!
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Replying to @mrgnrdrck @szafranek
Note that if the corpus is small, then the differences between grep/ag/ripgrep are probably not meaningful.
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Replying to @burntsushi5 @szafranek
I am not sure what "small" covers in this context
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Replying to @mrgnrdrck @szafranek
See http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ for tons of details.
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