Are there any good full text searching tools? I need to search against a huge amount of source code. I'm using ripgrep. The problem is that every time I search, it has to read every file again, which is kind of slow. Is there a FT searching tool that is designed with source code searching in mind.

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  • livegrep

    Interactively grep source code. Source for http://livegrep.com/

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    Fork of Google codesearch with more options (by junkblocker)

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