I have always used traditional grep to search codebases. It serves me better than an IDE when there’re lots of scattered and frequent queries.
grep’s design is surprisingly winning, exceeding expectations to this day.
grep’s design is surprisingly winning, exceeding expectations to this day.
pretty fast and neat project to search code interactively with a lot of optimizations on finding the right thing
This is a promising road that I would probably not take. I have learned to live with simple per-line regular expressions. I have never felt that they slow me down.
In fact, the opposite is true: they let me craft fuzzy queries clearly, i.e., to balance the fuzziness across the query. I’ve never learned to do that with the black-box intelligent queries, which severely limited my scope in the past.