deadgrep VS emacs-find-file-rg

Compare deadgrep vs emacs-find-file-rg and see what are their differences.

deadgrep

fast, friendly searching with ripgrep and Emacs (by Wilfred)

emacs-find-file-rg

Find file in current project using rg --files command (by muffinmad)
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deadgrep emacs-find-file-rg
11 2
695 14
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5.5 2.2
4 months ago 10 months ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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deadgrep

Posts with mentions or reviews of deadgrep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.

emacs-find-file-rg

Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-find-file-rg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-27.
  • How do emacs users usually have multiple files open at once.
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Jan 2021
    So what other people have mentioned, I mostly use recentf or a project based search via find-file-rg used via the selectrum interface. Then I use winner-mode to switch between previous open buffers. This covers in my case most of the use cases.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing deadgrep and emacs-find-file-rg you can also consider the following projects:

rg.el - Emacs search tool based on ripgrep

consult - :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read

centaur-tabs - Emacs plugin aiming to become an aesthetic, modern looking tabs plugin

dumb-jump - an Emacs "jump to definition" package for 50+ languages

Emacs-wgrep - Writable grep buffer and apply the changes to files

json-diff - Structural diff for JSON files

ido-at-point - ido-at-point

urgrep - Universal recursive grep for Emacs

frog-jump-buffer - The fastest buffer-jumping Emacs lisp package around

wordle - Wordle TUI in Rust

ivy-ghq - Navigate to ghq managed git repos quickly using ivy Emacs package