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Replacing deadgrep with consult-ripgrep

Posted:   |   Categories: emacs, linux   |   Tags: elisp, emacs, grep, ripgrep, 2023

I have been evolving my way through many differing ways of grepping recently from standard built-in greps to a few ripgrep front ends until I finally settled on deadgrep I am currently an ivy user but as everyone seems to be talking about vertico and the associated completion stack I thought I would give it a try and therefore consult-ripgrep to see it can improve on my deadgrep setup. Read more...

Using ripgrep within Projects

Posted:   |   Categories: emacs, linux   |   Tags: deadgrep, emacs, projects, ripgrep, 2023

Given my recent forays into the world of grepping in emacs using deadgrep (and hence ripgrep) and my use of find-file-rg which feeds into my current completion system of ivy I think the next step is to try to set up a project and to see if I can gain any advantages in my workflow. I am not yet going to dive head first into projectile but dangle a tentative pinky into the deep project pools of the built in project system, namely EDE (Emacs Development Environment). Read more...

More flexible grepping with deadgrep

Posted:   |   Categories: emacs, linux   |   Tags: elisp, emacs, grep, ripgrep, 2023

I seem to be grepping a lot recently and I think the way I use deadgrep can be improved a little. Currently deadgrep defaults to a recursive ripgrep from the default-directory which is generally the current directory of the buffer, but I find that by default I tend to mostly want to grep from a top level directory (yes I know, almost like a project!). I would like to have a typical Find All References type of functionality from my grepping and not to rely on xref as I will not necessarily ever know if any xref functionality is supported for any file that I am working on and for the moment I am not using any connection to an LSP server. Read more...

RIP ripgrep-regexp, long live deadgrep!

Posted:   |   Categories: emacs, linux   |   Tags: deadgrep, emacs, grep, ripgrep, 2022

Well this is quite a turn up for the books, I seem to have already quickly moved on from emacs ripgrep-regexp! to something better and that is a package called deadgrep Now why is this? I hear you all ask, your new grepping workflow seemed perfect, a process of file searching that could last the ages. Well as it turns out that age was more of a collection of weeks. Read more...

RIP grep, long live ripgrep!

Posted:   |   Categories: emacs, linux   |   Tags: emacs, grep, ripgrep, 2022

I have come to the realisation that I can be a little more efficient when it comes to searching for text within files, or as it is known in software engineering circles, grepping! I am often looking for a string within a collection of files and mainly for a Find All References type of functionality. Typically I would want to accept a string (could be regex) and a directory and the search to descend through all sub directories. Read more...

Finding Files With RipGrep

Posted:   |   Categories: emacs, linux   |   Tags: emacs, ripgrep, 2022

Now I am appreciating the power and simplicity of ripgrep and have it available on all my systems I was hunting around emacs to see the best way to leverage this tool for quick file searching. Working on a code base that is familiar to me is fine when locating files within emacs as of course I know where to go and when I am not I would typically open up a terminal and use find Read more...