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Re:Poll: What is your primary editor? by kylec on Sunday November 30, 2014 @06:56PM (#8678774)
I use Sublime, but mainly because its search features are the best I've seen in any text editor. I can grep the entire codebase I'm working with for a specific string or pattern, or limit the search to specific kinds of files or files in specific directories, and see the results listed one after another in the find tab. Click on the result I want and I'm editing that file in that spot.

I've considered trying out other editors (Emacs, Vim, etc) but I haven't seen much in the way of first-party multi-file grep like I have with Sublime.

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Re:Poll: What is your primary editor? by pmoriarty on Sunday November 30, 2014 @07:45PM (#8678943)
Just a small sampling of what's out there that could search just as well or better:

For emacs:

  helm-ack[1]
  helm-ag[2]
  helm-git-grep[3]
For vim:

  ctrlp[4]
  unite[5]
[1] - https://github.com/syohex/emacs-helm-ack

[2] - https://github.com/syohex/emacs-helm-ag

[3] - https://github.com/yasuyk/helm-git-grep

[4] - https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim

[5] - https://github.com/Shougo/unite.vim

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Re:Poll: What is your primary editor? by S4M on Sunday November 30, 2014 @07:13PM (#8678836)
> I've considered trying out other editors (Emacs, Vim, etc) but I haven't seen much in the way of first-party multi-file grep like I have with Sublime.

In emacs you have M-x rgrep (M is the metakey, alt most likely). It greps all the file in your project, I don't know if Sublime's grep is different.

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Re:Poll: What is your primary editor? by omni on Sunday November 30, 2014 @07:21PM (#8678865)
Emacs has all of this as part of the popular projectile package for project management. https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile Some of the more advanced stuff is generally included in the search-specific packages, e.g. grep or ag.
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Re:Poll: What is your primary editor? by ben336 on Sunday November 30, 2014 @07:36PM (#8678909)
Not all "first-party" but Vim has a very very rich set of search and file management features:

http://benmccormick.org/2014/11/10/vim-workflows-file-switch...

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Re:Poll: What is your primary editor? by 1000hz on Sunday November 30, 2014 @07:29PM (#8678891)
I don't like how Sublime opens the search results as a text file in a new tab. TextMate2 has all of these search features too, except it's all in a nice dialog window. Also, its Find & Replace feature live-previews your changes inside the dialog. It's really nice.
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Re:Poll: What is your primary editor? by subsection1h on Sunday November 30, 2014 @08:29PM (#8679064)
eproject[1] by Jonathan Rockway[2] supports project-based grepping.

[1] https://github.com/jrockway/eproject

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jrockway

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