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by nicwest 4041 days ago
Is there any advantage here over using Ag or Awk or similar:

  ag "(TODO|FIXME)"
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Well you can see my comment above, but overall ag|awk|pt will be much faster (but might be less accurate). Leasot tries to weed out some false positive (by creating better comment for file type specific comment regexes). Also provides several reporters (JSON, XML, Markdown...) if you want to integrate with other tools (jenkins, travis etc...)