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On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:52:43 +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis
<pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote:
> * Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> [2011-01-06 17:30]:
> > So while ack may be, as its web site claims, "designed for
> > programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code," it
> > doesn't look particularly well-equipped for anything quite as
> > heterogeneous as the Perl source tree, at least without using
> > -a all the time.
>
> May I suggest a quick
>
> alias gg='git grep -E'
It is a huge shame that git-grep doesn't support -P :( :( :(
$ grep --help | grep -- -P
-P, --perl-regexp PATTERN is a Perl regular expression
> instead?
>
> I loved ack in my Subversion days, but git-grep has displaced it
> for almost all uses I had for it. Because git-grep uses the list
> of tracked files to look for candidates, it does not have to rely
> on the crutch that is file type detection. What’s more, it’s far
> faster.
>
> I miss ack’s grouped output layout, though.
>
> (I also have this in my `.bashrc`:
>
> ggv() { git grep -l -E "$@" | xargs ${DISPLAY:+g}vim ; }
>
> It takes a pattern and launches vim with all files containing
> matches for it.)
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