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deadgrep
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Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift}
Deadgrep (uses ripgrep and evil-collection has a binding) takes me to my happy place -
https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep
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James Dyer: More flexible grepping with deadgrep
theres a package for this that’s god tier: deadgrep
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advanced-search
this is cool too Wilfred/deadgrep: fast, friendly searching with ripgrep and Emacs
- What have you recently *removed* from your Emacs configuration?
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Navigating an enormous code base
rg.el or deadgrep: Emacs interfaces to ripgrep, a grep-like tool that is very fast. This lets us search across a large number of files for a pattern of text. The disadvantage of searching for text is that if you are looking for the method called foo and there are hundreds of them that exist, it can be hard to know which one you really want. On the other hand, at the scale and complexity that you are talking about, I can imagine that more IDE-like tools just start failing.
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If you have never used wgrep with rg.el to rename a function in several files, try it | that will blow your mind
Yes in this area (text search) there is many alternatives. Wilfred Hughes (author of deadgrep) has listed them in: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep/blob/master/docs/ALTERNATIVES.md
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ripgrep is fantastic | Emacs is fantastic | BOOM you get the fantastic rg.el
Anyone interested in this should also check out deadgrep: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep
- Difftastic: A diff that understands syntax
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Is there a magit-like interface for grep?
Deadgrep does this, IIUC (I use ripgrep.el instead, but I think deadgrep does something like what you want)
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Alternatives to two swiper/counsel commands
deadgrep is an interface to ripgrep.
difftastic
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
i want a diff tool that shows me exactly which tokens have changed, and which haven't, regardless of how they are laid out.
These already exist: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
when we get that, then we should get even less merge conflicts.
Counterintuitively, that is not the case. AST-merge is a much, much, much, much, much harder problem than AST-diff.
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic?tab=readme-ov-file#can...
The fact that diffs can be used to drive a 3-way merge is in fact an accidental property that arises due to the sheer crudeness of the diff format. As soon as you start using more-sophisticated diff formats, solutions to "the diff problem" no longer lead directly to solutions to "the merge problem".
- FLaNK AI Weekly 25 March 2025
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Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
Yes there is an `—-override` option you can use to specify the language in which a file should be parsed.
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master/CHANGELOG....
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So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
Use the fantastic difftastic instead of git's diff. https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/
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- Difftastic: A structural diff tool that understands syntax
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SemanticDiff now supports Rust
difftastic provides similar capabilities in a free tool based on treesitter
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My programming language aware diff for VS Code and GitHub now supports Rust
difftastic? https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
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Prettier $20k Bounty was Claimed
If you're looking for a VS Code extension or a GitHub app, check out https://semanticdiff.com/. I'm a co-founder of this project.
If you prefer a CLI tool, check out https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic. It supports more languages, but doesn't recognize when code has been replaced by an equivalent version ("invariances"). So it will show some changes (e.g. replacing a character in a string with an escape sequence) even though they are technically equivalent.
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Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git • Goto 2023
Shameless plug: I've written difftastic[1], a tool that builds ASTs and then does a structural diff of them. You can use it with git too.
It's an incredibly hard problem though, both from a computational complexity point of view, and trying to build a comprehensible UI once you've done the structural AST diff.
[1]: https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic
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Always leave a trailing comma in Python lists, dicts, tuples
There is a diff tool called difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
The idea is that it does not show diff based on text change, but on syntastic meaning. For that, it uses tree-sitter.
I think it still shows the trailing comma in the situation as shown in the article, but it's quite different experience than the standard text based diff.
What are some alternatives?
rg.el - Emacs search tool based on ripgrep
delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
consult - :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read
diffsitter - A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
emacs-find-file-rg - Find file in current project using rg --files command
neogit - An interactive and powerful Git interface for Neovim, inspired by Magit
dumb-jump - an Emacs "jump to definition" package for 50+ languages
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
Emacs-wgrep - Writable grep buffer and apply the changes to files
gumtree - An awesome code differencing tool
json-diff - Structural diff for JSON files
tree-sitter-cpp - C++ grammar for tree-sitter