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by weaksauce 4 days ago
you might be interested in https://github.com/boyter/cs

pretty fast and neat project to search code interactively with a lot of optimizations on finding the right thing

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The bottleneck, in my case, was indeed the poorly designed GUI of JetBrains and VSCode versus CLI. By migrating to CLI, I have abandoned intelligent queries as well. This project seems like a bridge: it preserves CLI, but restores the queries.

This is a promising road that I would probably not take. I have learned to live with simple per-line regular expressions. I have never felt that they slow me down.

In fact, the opposite is true: they let me craft fuzzy queries clearly, i.e., to balance the fuzziness across the query. I’ve never learned to do that with the black-box intelligent queries, which severely limited my scope in the past.

Came here to post than and you already did. Thank you!