Skip to content

✨ Add ripgrep support with ag fallback#762

Merged
purinkle merged 1 commit intomainfrom
add-ripgrep
Mar 16, 2026
Merged

✨ Add ripgrep support with ag fallback#762
purinkle merged 1 commit intomainfrom
add-ripgrep

Conversation

@purinkle
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

Before, we relied on ag for searching, but the maintainer last updated it five years ago. We want to ensure that folks maintain our tools, and we use the fastest tools available. We added ripgrep as an alternative to ag but ensured backwards compatibility.

Before, we relied on [`ag`][] for searching, but the maintainer last
updated it five years ago. We want to ensure that folks maintain our
tools, and we use the fastest tools available. We added [`ripgrep`][] as
an alternative to `ag` but ensured backwards compatibility.

[`ag`]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
[`ripgrep`]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
@purinkle purinkle merged commit 0db29b2 into main Mar 16, 2026
@purinkle purinkle deleted the add-ripgrep branch March 16, 2026 11:39
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

3 participants