safestringlib VS mpv

stpcpy_s is the current recommendation, eg https://github.com/intel/safestringlib/blob/master/safeclib/stpcpy_s.c

Most of the code I write has a spec of input and output being some form of text. Still, I tend to write that in languages that have safe string handling and drop into C only when the profiler indicates that's useful.

When handling strings in C, it's useful to use the string functions from glib or pull in one of the specifically safe string handling libraries and not use any C stdlib functions for strings at all.

There are a number of C strings libraries safer to use than the standard library, and many of them are simpler, more feature-rich, or both.

* https://github.com/intel/safestringlib (MIT licensed)

https://mpv.io/ has yt-dlp support, if yt-dlp is installed you just need to throw the URL at it and it plays the video (without download).

See https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/9053

I apologise for not following procedure. I am in the middle of building mpv 0.37 from source. Irrespective of the outcome I will document what I had to do in addition to the instructions on mpv.io and if the problem perststs, where it happens and where not with kernel version, mpv version taken from the screen, and the terminal output.

Use MPV. Partticularily shinchiro's builds. Extract the folder where you want its installation directory to be, if you decide to install it. Otherwise, just drag and drop files on top of its window or executable.

Author of ripgrep here.

Like automatic encoding detection and transparently searching UTF-16?

Or simple ways for composing character classes, e.g., `[\pL&&\p{Greek}]` for all codepoints in the Greek script that are letters. Another favorite of mine is `\P{ascii}`, which will search for any codepoint that isn't in the ASCII subset.

Or more sophisticated filtering features that let you automatically respect things like gitignore rules.

Those are all things that ripgrep does that grep does not. So I do not favor this explanation personally.

ripgrep has just about all of the functionality that GNU grep does. I would say the two biggest missing pieces at this point are:

* POSIX locale support. (But this might be a feature[1].)

* Support for "basic" regexes or some equivalent that flips the escaping rules around. i.e., You need to write `\+` to match 1 or more things, where as `+` will just match `+ literally.

Otherwise, ripgrep has unfortunately grown just about as many flags as GNU grep.

[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

- https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/8692

https://mpv.io played it without fuss.