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by mangamadaiyan 1547 days ago
I almost always fall back on ag (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher).

Honourable mentions to cscope and ctags. They work for me since most of my $dayjob involves me mucking around with C++.

All tools get invoked from within Vim. (Which _also_ works reasonably well in Windows Terminal).

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I use cscope and tags. Making sure vim is set up to navigate by tag is a must too. But given those I always wondered what the other methods mentioned in this news item offer that cscope/tags doesn't