vim-ripgrep VS vim-grepper

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]

I'm curious, what specifically works better about their IDE for you in the case of many files? Do they now have good global refactoring tools, like you can change a class name in library A and have it automatically be updated in library B and application C that depend on and use it? And without the actual files for such being open? (I'm reduced to what's essentially mass search-replace with https://github.com/mhinz/vim-grepper/ but it does the job and importantly helps update files I might not have open buffers for. Still a step down from what's available in JavaLand. I remember someone was working on a library to build some modern refactoring tools for Lisp but I don't know how far that's gotten.)

J'aime bien https://github.com/mhinz/vim-grepper Et https://github.com/kevinhwang91/nvim-bqf Pour ce travail.

I had a look at your planned modules and thought I could swamp you with some more ideas, to possibly inspire you to do a few of them: - since you are thinking about making mini.quickfix: - vim-grepper: eases configuration of grep tools like rg and integration with quickfix - recipe.nvim: instead of defining 'makeprg', making a build step, which can send errors to the quickfix and a run step which runs in a floating terminal - qf.nvim: adds some additional stuff to quickfix, on top of bqf, like a proper quickfix toggle command, which I never want to live without again

use a grep tool plugin, I like https://github.com/mhinz/vim-grepper for this.

This is great when you want to jump to a specific place.

I also use vim-grepper (mapped to leader-g) for finding in files and populating the quickfix list.

https://github.com/mhinz/vim-grepper

Why not just using vim-grepper? :p

Not an answer to your question but vim-grepper allows you to use ag already (if you are using it from grepping).

This wouldn’t be a direct replacement for searching, but could you create/find a tool which uses perl regex to fill the location window? e.g you can use vim-grepper and modify the rg command with --pcre to use the pcre2 engine.

Could you expand on how this differs from vim-grepper?