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Random idea: maybe you could supercharge this by introducing to grep some constructs from programming languages. Now you have things like "word character", "whi

• pjc50 7y ago
  Then it's not grep, it's something much slower which has to parse the syntax.
• LandR 7y ago
  Visual Studio with Resharper does this. It's very very fast / almost instant even with hundreds of source code files and millions of lines of code. I hit ctrl+T and then can search everything, this give me a drop down that filters out the more I type, select the item in the dropdown and it goes to that source file. I can also type: /t and search just types /m members /mm methods /u unit tests /f file /fp project /e event /mp property /mf field /ff project folder e.g. /t Foo will find all the Foos /mm SavePhoto will find any methods called SavePhoto Same works in JetBrains Rider for C# stuff. I couldn't dev without this now, and it's all built into my IDE.
• secure 7y ago
  https://github.com/mvdan/gogrep https://github.com/mvdan/gogrep does something like this for Go :)
• predakanga 7y ago
  There's an old project from Facebook that does something like this, called Pfff[0] It provides a tool called sgrep (syntactical grep) that lets you do some cool tricks, for instance: `sgrep "some_func(X,X)"` returns all calls to some_func with the same argument repeated. `sgrep "some_func(X,Y,...)"` returns all calls to some_func with 3 or more arguments. It's come in very handy for refactoring some troublesome codebases. [0]: https://github.com/facebookarchive/pfff https://github.com/facebookarchive/pfff