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the_silver_searcher reviews and mentions

• A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2024
• 9 tools, libraries and extensions our developer can't live without (and why)
  7 projects | dev.to | 17 Jun 2024

  There are other CLI search tools for code: grep, ripgrep, etc. or actual search tools (Sourcegraph, Github, IDEs), but I always reach for Silver Searcher/Ag. Ag is a code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster. The syntax is pretty good and it’s very helpful when I just want something basic such as when I’m just looking for the string Config (I don’t use complex regex).By the way fzf.zsh, combines ag with fzf to do instant full text search recursively over the current directory, and then pops you into vim at that exact file line.

• Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
  29 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024

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• Debugging Silent Create Action Failures in Rails
  2 projects | dev.to | 9 Nov 2023

  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.

• Ggreer/the_silver_searcher: A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
• ✨7 Github Repositories to Master React
  12 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2023

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

• Rust crate rg typosquatting/redirect to ripgrep
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2023

  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?

• Linux drivers development
  2 projects | /r/embedded | 9 Jul 2023

  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.

• 🚀 Boost Your Coding Productivity with These 9 Powerful FREE Tools! 💪
  5 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2023

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• how to list places where a function is being used?
  1 project | /r/neovim | 12 Apr 2023

  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.

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