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by ggreer 4419 days ago
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.

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

So.. thanks :)

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