I'm glad you (and many others) like it. I've neglected Ag lately, but I'll definitely come back to it once I'm less busy (probably in the fall). There are some features users still want, but it's tricky to implement them without performance regressions.
It amazes me every time that I use it. You did a fantastic job. Thank you
Or at least ack, which came before it and still kicks grep's ass.
Thanks for the pointer! Had seen this before and never really checked it out. It's crazy fast. Some very unscientific testing showed searching for a word in a project I'm working on took 0.07s with ag and 21.7s with ack and 16.3s with grep. Not at all definitive, but I'm definitely going to keep trying ag.
Yea I have a lot of respect for little ag, used as much as my editor is.
As long as we're plugging: I realize nobody here would ever use Geany, but my Gitbrowser plug-in for that teeny-tiny editor/IDE has a keyboard shortcut to do git grep, and make the results clickable. See https://github.com/unwind/gitbrowser#greping-a-repository.
I remember these scripts coming up a while ago here, along with some scathing criticism.
How does it compare to ack? How did you go retraining the muscle memory used to type grep -E?