Addendum to my comment above: Ripgrep can be used quite easily with the project.el package too that comes out of the box in Emacs. So it is not really necessa

Addendum to my comment above: Ripgrep can be used quite easily with the project.el package too that comes out of the box in Emacs. So it is not really necessary to install an external package to make use of ripgrep within Emacs. We first need to configure xref-search-program to ripgrep as shown below, otherwise it defaults to grep which can be quite slow on large directories: (setq xref-search-program 'ripgrep) Then a project search with C-x p g foo RET ends up executing a command like the following on the current project directory: rg -i --null -nH --no-heading --no-messages -g '!*/' -e foo The results are displayed in an Xref buffer again which in my opinion is the best thing about using external search tools within Emacs. The Xref key sequences like n (next match), p (previous match), RET (jump to source of match), C-o (show the source of the match in a split window), etc. make navigating the results a breeze!