[qsera]

True, but easier said than done, because one often need to work in more shells than their local machines..

[pie_flavor]

This is a nonstandard tool. If you can't customize your machine, you already don't have it.

[qsera]

But it could be one day..

[worksonmine]

Do something like this to fall back to plain grep. You will somehow have to share these configurations across machines though.

    alias g=grep
    command -v rg 2>&1/dev/null && alias g=rg