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I'd be interested in knowing how this compares to the Silver Searcher [0], I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned at all since they're similar.

[0] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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Pretty sure ag searches on-the-fly, whereas Hound builds an index.

Edit: Yup, from previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8957565

One big difference is the UI. Silver Searcher is used on the command line whereas Hound is used in a webpage.

Edit: A command line version is also on the way.

rking's ag.vim provides a UI to Silver Searcher in vim, it is effectively similar to this, plus it's right in your next editor! https://github.com/rking/ag.vim

That said Hound looks like a nice tool. I'm giving it a try.

I've been using helm-projectile's helm-projectile-ag in emacs (on prelude) a lot lately. It's very nice to have live filtering while you type a query, and the ability to search for symbol at point.

https://tuhdo.github.io/helm-projectile.html

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