My pain points with Emacs code search and how I fixed them

Posted by sepisoad on Sunday October 22, 2023 @08:31AM
from the sepi.me dept.

https://sepi.me/emacs-ripgrep-workaround/

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Re:My pain points with Emacs code search and how I fixed them by eviks on Monday October 23, 2023 @06:46AM (#37983875)

> if you're working on a Go project and you want to search for the function encodeBase64, you can use the following command to exclude all test files from the results:

rg-project encodeBase64 --glob='!*test.go'

> This is great, but there's one issue. rg.el

How is this great if it doesn't limit search to functions?

And there is no cache?

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Re:My pain points with Emacs code search and how I fixed them by clircle on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:18AM (#37984606)

I might try rg, but I have been using either consult-ripgrep or ivy-ripgrep for many years

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