ack.vim

You can use ripgrep with Ack. We'll at least you can with Vim [0], so I assume it works outside Vim too. [0]: https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

> "or you could just hit ^z and use the unparalleled power of the Unix shell." Or I could use both, when the need arises, which frankly it never has for me. Ack.vim does not preclude using ^z when you have a special need, it optimizes the common case. And Ack.vim is much nicer than !ack <cword> > "install ack.vim, slow down vim's startup and bloat your installation" Well I don't run vim on a z80, so the difference would be pretty hard to measure ;). The way modern well-coded vim plugins like Ack.vim work involves lazyloading using 'autoload' (which is poorly named.) Ack.vim includes plugin/ack.vim (p/av) and autoload/ack.vim (a/av). p/av loads when you start vim, but is a light-weight file that only contains keybindings and settings variables. The actual code of Ack.vim, the function definitions, exists in a/av which is loaded la

I don't see why being effective in vim means you ^z out of vim to run `ack` or `grep`, instead of pressing ^f (for example) to run Ack.vim on the <cword> and have the results displayed next to your code in a window that, when you select the item you want, opens that corresponding file in a buffer with your cursor already on the line in question. Certainly you don't need ack.vim, you could just ^z and do it the old fashioned way, but where is the utility in that? As for the unix philosophy, it's all about programs doing one thing and doing it well... but isn't it also about composing those programs to do the job you need done? If you're just ^z'ing out of vim to run `grep` or `ack`, how do you get those results back into vim? copy/paste it through your terminal emulator, using tmux in the best case scenario? How is that more in line wi

I really like ack over grep, and there's a vim plugin too. https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

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

This is extremely close to my vim setup. Two additional plugins I'd recommend are ack.vim (https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim) to provide search across multiple files and ropevim (http://rope.sourceforge.net/ropevim.html) for better python completion and some refactorings. Check out rope-omni (https://github.com/rygwdn/rope-omni) for ropevim and supertab integration.

I use ack.vim, which outputs to vim's quickfix window: https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim

For vi users, I recommend this plugin: https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim. I like it better than simply replacing grep with ack. This has made me a lot more productive, as I can do complex searches MUCH faster!