MOmordnis·Aug 26, 2024
Is it something similar to ctags? https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags
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ctags
A maintained ctags implementation
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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What Hacker News says
5 sourcesReminds me of OpenGrok: https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/
OpenGrok is powered by Universal Ctags (https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags) underneath and uses a Java servlet web server (Apache Tomcat) with search powered by Apache Lucene.
OpenGrok is older, boring technology but it works.
It is refreshing to see a new, Rust-powered approach to code search.
In Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source codeCool but I'm not a big fan of the idea by storing "state" in aliases that later commands can reference. (It's better than environment variables though.)
For source code I've had a really good experience with ctags[1].
[1]: https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags
In Show HN: Tag – instantly jump to your ag matchesI am not sure "proof" is the appropriate word.
> Dumb Jump uses The Silver Searcher ag (and falls back to grep) ... [and] a set of regular expressions
If you're going to install ag, you might as well install universal-ctags[1], a revival of ctags with many improved and new parsers. It allowed me to discard my C and javascript ctags config entirely.
Combined with gutentags[2] you have a "just works" and "Less Dumb" setup.
[1] https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags
[2] https://github.com/ludovicchabant/vim-gutentags
In Dumb-jump: an Emacs “jump to definition” package