nvim-jqx VS vim-ripgrep

nvim-jqx is your neovim interface to json and yaml files1: in the last release I have fixed a few bugs introduced by the latest changes in `yq` grammar and have added treesitter syntax highlight to the floating buffer (invoked when querying the json or yaml keys, why I had not done it before already is beyond my memory :p):

browse json files content (nvim-jqx)

As far as I know there is no other plugin at the moment that interfaces neovim with json files, and more often than not we see questions here where people suggest to reformat json files via python or some other :%!. Well, with jqx you have it all in one place, so you may find it useful: have a look at the repository and feel free to open up issues with improvements or suggestions!

Have you tried nvim-jqx?

By the way, nvim-jqx can come to your rescue.

...or you can use nvim-jqx (neovim only though) :p

P. S. If you are using neovim nvim-jqx is a jq wrapper that populates entries in the quickfix window. Spoiler alert: I am the author (so in this case you can shoot the messenger :p)!

Potentially related: nvim-jqx wraps around yq to populate the quickfix window with yaml keys, moreover supporting (limited) queries with autocompletion.

nvim-jqx

But I mostly use ctrlp when I work with projects. A can recommend vim-ripgrep too, it lets you find strings/patterns in your project files.

I use vim-ripgrep and the result is directly addressed into the quickfix.

Sometimes I still use https://github.com/jremmen/vim-ripgrep to ripgrep non-interactively with more complex searches over bigger projects, which populates the quickfix list, the rely on bqf for extra functionality

which is what I was looking for in this regard, it allows you to specify rg arguments, like -tlua to only search in lua files for example. For me this was something that was missing, I was using https://github.com/jremmen/vim-ripgrep before that, which I still use as it is muscle memory.

In emacs we can do incremental search through an entire directory with projectile-ripgrep. The only thing I know that works more or less the same in vim is https://github.com/jremmen/vim-ripgrep, but the results only appear after I enter the hole expression and press enter, and not incrementally. Also, projectile-ripgrep lets me use a regex instead of just normal text as a query.

project-wide search (I use vim-ripgrep but any grep-finder would do)

I'm running the kitty terminal emulator with fzf and https://github.com/jremmen/vim-ripgrep installed and integrated w/ VIM-Vi IMproved 8.2 (or I believe I do). Please refer to this github link to see my vimrc.

I’m no expert, but I believe ripgrep will do PCRE, and there are more than a couple vim plugins that’ll leverage it. I happen to use vim-ripgrep, which is good enough for me, but not sure if it’ll let you get at the PCRE option (I’d guess it should, but I haven’t checked).

If the symbol has a fairly unique name you can do something like 'grep word under cursor', there are many ways to do this, I tend to use https://github.com/jremmen/vim-ripgrep, also just :h vimgrep. For more complicated cases maybe write some minimal vimscript/lua code to for example use a more specialized grep pattern in a specific directory and make a keymap for that or something.

My question is simple: Why do we need plugin like: (jremmen/vim-ripgrep)[https://github.com/jremmen/vim-ripgrep]