RSS2EMail VS the_silver_searcher

hrm, not sure I've tried to go the other way. I use rss2email to bring most of my RSS feeds into my inbox where I have all the power of mutt or mail(1) to mow through my feeds. I've never wanted to go the other direction.

as a twist on this, I like rss2email which drops my RSS feeds in my inbox, letting me use my existing MUA (no new keyboard commands to learn, syncs read-/deleted-state across machine via IMAP, works with multiple clients, etc).

However, I found it wanting, so I returned back to my previous habits of using old-Reddit for a few sub-reddits with which I regularly interact, and use my RSS reader, (rss2email ) for the sub-reddits that I read without interacting much. You can tack .rss at the end of any subreddit URL to obtain the RSS feed for it. And I find that much more pleasant (having all the power of mutt for mowing through posts of mild interest)

Alternatively, for myself, I use rss2email to pull my RSS feeds into my inbox, reducing the syncing problem to one that IMAP has already solved for me (and no new UI to learn, just the same mutt/claws interface I use for my email).

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If you have trouble finding it among the other stuff happening in the server log, well, so do I! I recommend learning how to programmatically search through your terminal output. Providing a universal method for this is challenging because various tools and terminal emulators implement this functionality differently. Another option would be to use tools like grep or the_silver_searcher (a favorite of mine) to search the file where your dev logs are written to. This file is located at log/development.log in a Rails project.

Some of the examples below use ag, but could just as well use grep or equivalent.

Why guess when [there are installation instructions for various platforms on the README](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#installing)?

Also, although it may not be easy to remember, is this really a problem in practice given the installation count in most contexts is one? If there's a context where it's installed regularly, that's a one-time addition to an install script, Dockerfile, etc. in my experience. Do you have a situation that isn't amenable to that?

The kernel changes a lot, so the books would get outdated quickly. But you can find simple / similar drivers, and read the code. Usually there are some documentation / comments on the headers before the function declarations. The Elixir and the Silver Searcher will help a lot.

URL 🔗 : https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

My "vim" way of finding all the places where a function is being used: using visual mode, marking the function, and passing it to :Ag (silversearcher) The problem with this is that it is not 100% accurate, since it will just look for things with the same name, so I was thinking about using the LSP to make things more robust.

We're fans of ag, The Silver Searcher.

Helm-ag is an interface to the ag, silver-searcher, so check the docs for ag. For example, ag automatically ignore some files if there is a .gitignore with some file patterns, or you could use .agignore.