September 10, 2018

Ack and Ag

These are improvements over Grep for searching through source code.
These can be installed via Fedora packages: 
dnf install ack
dnf install the_silver_searcher
Ack is written in Perl -- I am waiting to see how it performs on a big source tree.
Ag is a compiled program and seems to run much faster.

There are Vim plugins for these (there are at least 4000 Vim plugins available).


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