ag.el

"ag" and "ag.el" have been of great utility to 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

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 https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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: http://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor3.html#sec-4-1

Sure. Here's a binary: https://github.com/tom-seddon/the_silver_searcher/tree/_vs20... The source code is there too, but I wouldn't look too closely. "Cobbled 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.

'M-x ag', is just a package install away: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el

As an emacs user I do agree with what you're saying. I do all my codebase searching using ag from emacs[1] instead of grep and I absolutely love it: you get the results in a compilation-mode buffer which instantly jumps you to the search hits. Maybe I should use eshell or one of the comint shells more. But I wouldn't want to leave bash/zsh behind -- I might as well be on windows then :) (which is, btw, a strong argument in favor of the workflow you're describing -- for those poor people who are forced to use windows, eshell is a blessing.) [1] https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el

There is: ido-flex: https://github.com/vic/ido-better-flex. ido-verical mode (just to make ido to display results in a column instead a row): https://github.com/gempesaw/ido-vertical-mode.el. Simp.el, that act like sublime text fuzzyfinder : https://github.com/re5et/simp.Also is good to read this post about it: http://ck.kennt-wayne.de/2012/aug/find-project-file-with-fuz.... And this 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 ;).

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 emacs. I've been using it for over a decade now and I'm still regularly discovering new hotness.

The author of The Silver Searcher[1] has some blog posts about his efforts at optimizing his own grep-like tool. There's nothing wrong with good ole grep, but on boxen I spend any significant time on, I always install ag. The integration with Emacs provided 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

And if your editor is Emacs, you can use this: https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el