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The trick to optimization is not "doing faster" but "doing less". I already feel rg is missing a ton of results I want to see because it has a very large ignore list by default.

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i see this - complaint? - often, but i use grep for finding text in files in the filesystem, like normal people. But specific datasets i'll use ag/rg. As an example, i have transcribed all of the "shows* i have access to for a couple of radio programs, when i want to do exploratory searches, i hit the set once with ag/rg, which takes 7-14 seconds to warm up once, then it's <1ms to search all 1500 text files or whatever.

So while i'm sure ag/rg may be frustrating to use in certain circumstances, by default it works great for searching text files, even structured text files, on disk.

alias rg="rg -iuu"

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