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I almost feel like we're being trolled now. I will not reply to this person anymore and may recommend the same. I'm one of the people delightfully surprised by
by kstrauser 2y ago
I almost feel like we're being trolled now. I will not reply to this person anymore and may recommend the same.
I'm one of the people delightfully surprised by ripgrep. If I wanted a tool that behaved exactly like grep, I'd use grep. It's already fast enough for my uses, so if the only difference were that rg were a bit faster, I'd ignore it and stick to the default tool. That's not why I use rg though! Thanks for your hard work, and yes, the excellent defaults.
- Y_Y 2y agoAre you referring to me? I only posted once in this thread and it was just my genuine opinion, which I considered relatively anodyne. Surprises are rarely delightful when I'm coding and I'm not always assiduous enough to read all the man pages. That's not burntsushi's fault, and not necessarily a design flaw. On the other hand I think it's fair to mention that it violates a popular (but not universal) software design principle. If you just wanted the gitignore magic then you can use `git grep` or the `--exclude` flag and save yourself installing ripgrep.
- kstrauser 2y agoNo. There are other people in the thread who were more, uh, assertive about their complaints.
- godelski 2y agoYou're not being trolled. You just do a different kind of programming and likely haven't experienced how disastrous it is to have things filtered out when you weren't expecting it to. I addressed the point more clearly here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515601 And I don't think rg needs to change. The cure would be worse than that disease at this point. But that doesn't mean people making new tools should do the same thing.