#Ripgrep gui free#

What are the best apps you've been using for a long time on Windows? DnGrep - TL DR : grep with less headaches, a gui, and less features.

#Ripgrep gui free#

You can try Recoll ( - instant result when searching, but needs indexing first and you might want to donate a little for windows version) or dnGrep ( - slower but free and do not need much setup). The help buffer also explained that I could set this value using grep-apply-setting.įinding the correct arguments to rg was as easy as reading rg -help.Research aid, multiple text file searching. This opened a help buffer that explained that the default Emacs grep library allows you to change the command that appears when you run M-x grep-find by setting the variable grep-find-command. So from an Emacs buffer, I ran M-x customize-group RET grep. I knew a little about the different grep commands that Emacs exposes, but I didn’t know much about how I could customize them. My first step was to understand how Emacs’s grep integration works. Here are the steps I took to figure out what I needed to do to get jump-to-grep working. If you move the cursor over one of the links and hit enter, Emacs should open that file and take you directly to that line.Įvery time I spelunk through my Emacs config to get something working, I try to learn a little bit more about how Emacs works and how I can get better at modifying it to suit my needs. You should see results from across your entire Git repo, not just the subdirectory you’re currently in. Save and exit Emacs, then open up a file in some subdirectory of one of your Git repositories. (global-set-key (kbd 'C-x C-g') 'grep-find) Add the following to your Emacs configuration file I’d prefer something shorter, like C-x C-g. I expect to use grep a lot, and I’d rather not have to type M-x grep-find every time. In this case, we’re starting the cursor at the 27th character of the string - right between the '', which is where we’ll type our search expression.Īdd a nicer keybinding than M-x grep-find. 27 rather than just passing the command as a string? That part just tells Emacs where we want our cursor to start when we call M-x grep-find. So $(git rev-parse -show-toplevel || pwd) will be the root directory of the current Git repo if we’re in a Git repo, or the current directory if we’re not. In this case, our second command is pwd, which will print the directory we’re currently in ( pwd is short for Print Working Directory). cmd1 || cmd2 will run cmd1, then run cmd2 if cmd1 returned an error. We could just leave it there, but in the rare case that I’m searching outside of a Git repo I don’t want this command to return an error.īash (like most shells) allows us to recover from errors using the || operator. If we’re in a Git repo we can use git rev-parse -show-toplevel to get the repo’s root directory, but this command will return an error if we’re not in a Git repo. rg will default to searching the current directory, but I want it to check the entire current Git repo (I want to see results from my whole project, not just the directory of the file I happen to have open). The final argument we supply to rg is the directory to search. In this command, we start with an empty regular expression ( ''), which we will fill in whenever we call M-x grep-find. e tells ripgrep that the next argument should be regular expression to search for. This is important because Emacs will only let us jump to a match if we have the complete file path and line number all together. no-heading tells ripgrep to display the file name on each line, rather than grouping matches by file and only displaying the filename at the top of each group. H tells ripgrep to display the file name for each match. n tells ripgrep to display the line number for each match (the line in the file on which the match appeared). To start, we’re calling rg (this was our main goal: to call ripgrep). The value that we’re passing is this complicated object '('rg -n -H -no-heading -e '' $(git rev-parse -show-toplevel || pwd)'. At a high level, we’re using the grep-apply-setting function to tell Emacs what command should be run when we run M-x grep-find.

There’s a lot going on here, so let’s unpack it.

'('rg -n -H -no-heading -e '' $(git rev-parse -show-toplevel || pwd)'.