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by vintagedave 676 days ago
How does this compare to ugrep or others?

Fast text search is really valuable -- if we could see comparisons it would help make judgements about which to use.

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Although it looks like a console/TUI application it is a GUI one. The underlying search engine is nothing new (PCRE2 JIT). Primary benefits revolve around having options be instantly discoverable instead of queryable behind a man page. Things that would of taken grep/find/fzf are wrapped up into one application. Here are some of the key features:

- Export results to file/clipboard/pipe

- Bookmarks: saved search presets

- Full search history (entries of source/filter/pattern)

- Built-in preview window

- Editor commands to jump to found matches (ex: gvim '$filepath' +$line)

- Drag/Drop found matches to an open text editor

- File dialog to select start directory

- Tab cycling of source filenames (console emulation)

- Logical operators coming soon (AND OR NOT XOR)

I suggest trying the free demo to get a better feel for the application.