[tveita]

If ag knows it can't search the whole file, it should at least give a warning. Or why not use search_stream?

Silently skipping parts of it seems like the worst thing to do.

[ggreer]

Good point about the warning. I'll add that. With regards to search_stream() in search.c... all I can say is that I'm sorry:

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/blob/master/sr...

I built ag for myself; both as a tool and to improve my skills profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing. Had I known how popular it would become, I would have definitely held myself to a higher standard, or any standard. Most importantly, I'd have written tests. These days, I'm busy with a startup so progress on those fronts has been slow.

[masterj]

For me ag has been magical. It does exactly what I want 99% of the time and is just blazingly fast.

So.. thanks :)

[x0x0]

it's an awesome tool I use dozens of times a day, so thank you

[mpercy]

ag is incredible, especially paired with Ack.vim and a mapping. I use <leader>as to search for the current word under the cursor. The results are instantaneous. With ag and YouCompleteMe, I never fall back to cscope/ctags in C++ projects anymore.

One thing though, it skips certain source files seemingly arbitrarily without the -t param and I haven't figured out why... Doesn't seem related to any .gitignore entries that I have been able to identify.