Ripgrep

[gabebw]

Is ripgrep working well for you in general and as your :grepprg? Is it faster than ag?

[teoljungberg]

I moved over to ripgrep from git grep, and I didn't notice any major performance improvements. It feels faster(which accounts for something) but I have not done any benchmarks to prove so.

What irked me about ag is the lack of compatibility with grep(1), and it took some tweaking to rg for it to behave how I wanted it to. The :grepprg I ended up with, which now works how I want it to is:

set grepprg=rg\ --hidden\ --glob\ '!.git'\ --vimgrep\ --with-filename
set grepformat=%f:%l:%c:%m

I want my :grep to work with:

• Grepping for hidden files(let's be real, it's mostly dotfiles)
• Ignore .git, because there's rarely a use-case where I want to search inside of it. And when I do, I can always specify the full path and find what I please.
• I want to always display the filename I'm grepping for, meaning I can use :grep some-token aswell as :grep some-token path/to/some/file interchangeably.

Hope that helps!

[teoljungberg]

Also I love the idea of adding issues to ones dotfiles repository to keep track of things you want to look into / polish!

[gabebw]

I was super disappointed with ripgrep's speed vs ag, then I realized I had told ag to ignore lots of things (like images!) so ripgrep was searching like 15% more files than ag.

I fixed it in this commit, which tells ripgrep to use this file to find more things to ignore on top of the gitignore.

[teoljungberg]

Since rg ignores what's present in the .gitignore - I haven't needed to have another ignore file (yet).