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Thu, Mar 07 2013 01:17:18

Feedback on combining :vimgrep with `ack -f`

  1. vimcasts
    Vimcasts@vimcasts
    Combining :vimgrep with `ack -f`: vimcasts.org/blog/2013/03/c… This lets you use :vimgrep to search the set of files that ack would inspect.
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 09:13:04
  2. tpope
    Tim Pope@tpope
    @vimcasts combining the no-hassle whitelisting of ack with the raw speed of vimgrep
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 09:41:32
  3. nelstrom
    Drew Neil@nelstrom
    @tpope ha! I don’t claim that vimgrep is fast, I’m just lazy and like working with the same regex for file-wise and project-wide search.
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 10:54:46
  4. tpope
    Tim Pope@tpope
    @nelstrom really I'm just shocked at anyone actually wanting ack's file selection process. Burns me every time I use it.
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 11:36:58
  5. nelstrom
    Drew Neil@nelstrom
    @tpope do you have a problem with the syntax being confusing, or does it return incorrect results?
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 12:18:41
  6. tpope
    Tim Pope@tpope
    @nelstrom It silently ignores file names like .erb, .haml, .builder, .feature, Gemfile, and anything else Rubyists have invented this week.
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 12:42:21
  7. tpope
    Tim Pope@tpope
    @nelstrom yes you can customize it. Rubyists invent far too many naming conventions to make that tenable.
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 12:50:05
  8. gilesgoatboy
    Giles@gilesgoatboy
    @tpope @nelstrom idk, I just have an absurdly long line of filename extensions which can mark a file as ruby, otherwise, no big deal.
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 13:07:53
  9. tpope
    Tim Pope@tpope
    @gilesgoatboy @nelstrom silver searcher and git grep both get this right, plus faster to boot. I don't get why anyone would bother with ack.
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 13:12:31
  10. judofyr
    Magnus Holm@judofyr
    @gilesgoatboy @tpope @nelstrom +1 on silver searcher. no more file extension whitelisting AND it's faster.
    Tue, Mar 05 2013 13:21:20
  11. nelstrom
    Drew Neil@nelstrom
    @tpope perhaps a better partner for vimgrep would be `git ls-tree` Trying to think up a good alias for: `git ls-tree --name-only -r HEAD`
    Wed, Mar 06 2013 15:16:42
  12. tpope
    Tim Pope@tpope
    @nelstrom I think you're looking for git ls-files
    Wed, Mar 06 2013 15:28:08
  13. nelstrom
    Drew Neil@nelstrom
    @tpope that’s the one, thanks!
    Wed, Mar 06 2013 15:28:51
  14. tpope
    Tim Pope@tpope
    @nelstrom it's great for this, I recently started using it for ctags. just be aware that by default it skips untracked files
    Wed, Mar 06 2013 15:30:30

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