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Surprised ag isn't better known here. If you grep through code a lot and you haven't tried it, I'd heartily recommend it.
by rogual 10y ago
Surprised ag isn't better known here. If you grep through code a lot and you haven't tried it, I'd heartily recommend it.
- TorKlingberg 10y agoI have limited time for keeping up with non-standard tools. It's the same reason I use bash rather than zsh/ksh/fish. With grep I have a solid mental model of what it does. ack/ag have some magic that is fine most of the time, but will eventually bite me when I do something unusual. Still, I will check out ag. Maybe this time I will stick with it. On a side note: People often say that C is just for legacy, and today everything new should be written in a higher level language unless it's a kernel or otherwise inherently low-level. Yet ag is basically a rewrite of ack in C.