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Re:Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office do... by Adam89 on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:32AM (#20202212)
I'd like to try libripgrep out in one my projects, maybe I could also take on the challenge of attempting to document it.
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Re:Show HN: Rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, Office do... by burntsushi on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:58AM (#20202431)
So, a lot of it is actually written already. :-) https://github.com/BurntSushi/blog/blob/ag/libripgrep/conten... (The formatting is FUBAR, so you'll want to look at the raw text.)

There's just a lot of polish that needs to be done, and converting portions of it appropriate API documentation. Unfortunately, I don't really have the bandwidth to mentor this at the moment. :-( However, with that said, one super useful thing you could do is try out libripgrep and then give feedback[1] on how it worked for you, and in particular, which things were hard to figure out.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1009

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