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switched from ag to rg a few months ago and have nothing but good things to say about the experience.
by dh-g 9y ago
switched from ag to rg a few months ago and have nothing but good things to say about the experience.
- hivacruz 9y agoI 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!
- nialo 9y agoI switched also recently, the thing that helped me was adding this: alias rg='rg -S' to my .bashrc so that rg had the same default case sensitivity as ag.
- rektide 9y agoI do wish the persistent config file enhancement had a significant chance of becoming a reality. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/196 https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/196 I understand alias'es and wrappers fine, but I like having the environment have some way to contribute. It's just my simple preference. There's also the related #314 which makes even more sense- per project configuration. Sure would be great being able to download a project & have it already setup nicely for ripgrep! https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/314 https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/314
- burntsushi 9y ago> I do wish the persistent config file enhancement had a significant chance of becoming a reality. As the ticket says (I think), tt's going to happen. It's just a lot of tedious work.
- rektide 9y agoWow, cool. Thanks burntsushi. rg is already amazing. This project really has gotten an enormous amount of love & effort from you & it really shows through & through. Your implementation of the gitignore algorithm is crazy impressive to me.
- jedisct1 9y agoSame here. Ripgrep works like a charm Ack requires Perl, which I am not going to install just for that purpose.
- hashkb 9y agoSorry if this sounds rude, but how do you not have perl already installed? It's come with every distro I've ever used.
- petdance 9y agoWhat kind of OS are you running that Perl isn't installed already?
- rektide 9y agoAn ideal one. Like, platonic ideal- because it doesn't exist. That greatly ideal. I don't know why I care, other than even the super cut down perl being a sizable % of the install size for some of the very small systems I've worked with.