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An Emacs frontend to The Silver Searcher

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2013-07-09 · latest 2018-03-11

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  1. …me. Together they replace "find-grep," and exclude files in a relevant .gitignore from the search. https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el Read find-grep exclusion patterns from a .findignore file: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/19038/6682
    comment by peterbecich · 2018-03-11 · in Literate Devops with Emacs Org-Mode (2014)
  2. https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el works amazingly on Linux, ag is much faster than grep (and will try to parse .gitignore and similar files to give more relevant results). Might be worth a try on Windows as well? You can find ag in…
    comment by lorenzhs · 2016-02-12 · in Ask HN: Any drawbacks to Sublime Text 3 update?
  3. You can use Ag right inside Emacs with this package: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el If you use Helm, there's helm-ag: https://github.com/syohex/emacs-helm-ag Use MELPA and package manager to install the above packages:…
    comment by tuhdo · 2014-08-01 · in Show HN: Emacs Mini Manual
  4. …together", like I said. Though I've been using it all the time, in conjunction with ag-mode - https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el - and haven't noticed any obvious problems.
    comment by to3m · 2014-05-14 · in Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms
  5. 'M-x ag', is just a package install away: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el
    comment by michaelsbradley · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers
  6. …describing -- for those poor people who are forced to use windows, eshell is a blessing.) [1] https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el
    comment by Myrmornis · 2014-02-26 · in Tmux 1.9 released
  7. …new one called "ag.el" that is "An Emacs frontend to ag, ("the silver searcher" ack replacment)": https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el . Play with them and see if they can be useful to you ;).
    comment by jbeja · 2014-02-10 · in A Vim Tutorial and Primer
  8. Nice shoutout to ag but doesn't link to it: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el Search the current project, the scope of which is automatically constrained by git/subversion metadata. Awesome sauce! This is one of the things I love about…
    comment by macavity23 · 2013-12-21 · in Emacs My Way
  9. …by ag.el[2] is awesome too! [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#how-is-it-so-f... [2] https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el
    comment by michaelsbradley · 2013-11-28 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
  10. And if your editor is Emacs, you can use this: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el
    comment by brcrth · 2013-07-09 · in Grep too slow? Use git-grep