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TacticalCoder on Nov 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ripgrep 14 Released

And for those who are also on Emacs but on the Swiper/avy/ivy/counsel side of the fence, there's counsel-rg.

I use it since before burntsushi (who's here on HN btw)'s ripgrep was shipped with Debian stable!

> search your whole project with ripgrep and get a live preview of every matching candidate all inside of Emacs

I'm sometimes searching not just my project but my entire user dir or my entire shared drive, from Emacs. A NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD (I'm using a WD SN850X which someone here recommended to me when I assembled my PC) is that fast and ripgrep too.

e12e on Nov 27, 2023 [–]

> Swiper/avy/ivy/counsel

What are these? They're not editors/IDEs.. or?

indymike on Nov 28, 2023 | [–]

Oh, they are Emacs extensions.

e12e on Nov 28, 2023 | | [–]

Ah, thank you. My brain inserted a "not" in place of "also", so I read:

> And for those who are also on Emacs but on the Swiper/avy/ivy/counsel side of the fence

As "And for those who are not on Emacs but..."

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