[kaushalmodi]

Now try rg (ripgrep). It has a much more robust file ignore handling than ag in my experience.

When I last tried, ag couldn't handle this in .ignore file:

    !foo.1
    foo.*

That would ignore all foo.* files except foo.1 in rg.

Also rg is a bit faster than ag for my use cases.

[VeejayRampay]

Is it possible to register new file formats in ripgrep though (say for example slim files so that I could do rg -tslim PATTERN)? Last time I checked it was somehow possible but way too complicated for so common a task.

[kaushalmodi]

From its README:

    rg --type-add 'foo:*.{foo,foobar}' -tfoo bar

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You simply make the below into an alias:

    rg --type-add 'foo:*.{foo,foobar}'

Or, if the type you need is generic that other users can also use, submit a PR. The developer was kind to except mine.. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/107/files .. it's a trivial 1-line PR.