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monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher

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A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2014-04-09 · latest 2026-03-24

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  1. …me think I was going mad[0]. I can't fully remember if rg suffered from the same issue or not. [0] https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher/issu...
    comment by mijoharas · 2026-03-24 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
  2. …I do know after switching to rg everything was plain sailing and I've been happy with it since. [0] https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher/issu...
    comment by mijoharas · 2026-03-24 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
  3. …[4] - https://github.com/svent/sift/blob/2ca94717ef0bbf43068f217c8... [5] - https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher/blob...
    comment by burntsushi · 2018-06-26 · in Examples of Parallel Algorithms from C++17
  4. If you mention the silver searcher (ag), you gotta mention the platinum searcher (pt) :) https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher Since it's pure Go, there's your static binary which makes it easily deployable again.
    comment by lloeki · 2017-03-17 · in Programs that have saved me 100+ hours
  5. Golang flavour https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
    comment by luibelgo · 2016-10-15 · in Ask HN: What's the best 'non-frustrating' search/directory UI/UX you've seen?
  6. …(and even faster) than ag for codebase searches (and it can automatically pick up .gitignore etc). https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
    comment by coldtea · 2016-08-24 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
  7. …Searcher (pt) which add support for searching SHIFT_JIS and EUC-JP files and about as fast as ag. https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
    comment by sirn · 2016-01-13 · in Ack is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep
  8. …have Gogs integrate The Platinum Searcher - a code search tool similar to ack, written in Golang: https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
    comment by liotier · 2015-03-16 · in Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab
  9. https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher I use pt for stuff which is not in git, written in go and it is fast
    comment by senthilnayagam · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers
  10. …pain to build on Windows. pt[1] (written in go) has drop-in builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux. [1] https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher
    comment by justinmk · 2014-04-09 · in Using Git Grep