the_silver_searcher

What people said

• “I'll add two really simple, but also very effective tools. Search: in the form of things like "the silver searcher" or "fd". And, Replace: with tools like sed…”

• “Tmux: fish-shell: ranger: tig: ag or rg: And all my configur…”

• “fzf is awesome. I use it in vim and bash. ---- I use the Silver Searcher all the time. Very fast. ---- tig, a text mode interface for git.”

• “Never grep -R again! I'm also a fan of this software. Link because the name makes it hard to search for:”

• “Focusing on "more efficient" in "better": - emacs: works for me to code in R, python, connect to remotes, etc - keyboard shortcuts: got started with them early, and never looked back. Bonus: linux/macOS/emacs text navigation works across all of them (ctrl-f, ctrl-b, ctrl-a, ctrl-…”

• “I often find multi-line Python scripts with `import os` and others that could be a fraction in size (and just as clear) in bash. Even more ridiculous are the times I find a node script (published to npm, even) that is little more than a wrapper on a shell script. Inevitably someo…”

• “rg (ripgrep): I used to use ag (the silver searcher) before, and `ag` was practically a muscle memory to me, but then I came across ripgrep and it was so much faster. I've now installed a static binary of ripgrep in every machine I have S…”