ag.vim

Vim plugin for the_silver_searcher, 'ag', a replacement for the Perl module / CLI script 'ack'

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Vim plugin for the_silver_searcher, 'ag', a replacement for the Perl module / CLI script 'ack'

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Observed mentions: 2012-09-13 21:59:12 UTC to 2013-04-19 18:58:04 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Sep 10	2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC	2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Sep 17	2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC	2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 24	2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 1	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 8	2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 15	2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 22	2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 29	2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 5	2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 12	2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 19	2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 26	2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 3	2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 10	2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 17	2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 24	2012-12-24 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 31	2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 7	2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 14	2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 21	2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 28	2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC	2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 4	2013-02-04 00:00:00 UTC	2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 11	2013-02-11 00:00:00 UTC	2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 18	2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC	2013-02-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 25	2013-02-25 00:00:00 UTC	2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 4	2013-03-04 00:00:00 UTC	2013-03-11 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 11	2013-03-11 00:00:00 UTC	2013-03-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 18	2013-03-18 00:00:00 UTC	2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 25	2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 1	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 8	2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC	2013-04-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 15	2013-04-15 00:00:00 UTC	2013-04-22 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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saidajigumi·Apr 19, 2013

The silver searcher (Ag)[1] ignores files from .gitignore/.hgignore by default, so I find that this sort of project-specific configuration isn't generally needed. There are various editor plugins for Ag, e.g. Ag.vim[2] based on mileszs' excellent Ack.vim[3]. [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher [2] https://github.com/epmatsw/ag.vim [3] https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

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AngryParsley·Sep 13, 2012

I'm the author of Ag. I don't know how you're running Ag, but it should highlight and print line numbers like Ack. If you had read the README, you'd know that Ag is faster than Ack because it uses tricks like mmap()ing files, pthreads to take advantage of multiple CPU cores, boyer-moore-horspool strstr(), and PCRE's JITed regex engine. I don't use vim, but some Ag users do. There's an ag.vim: https://github.com/epmatsw/ag.vim

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