From c72234d6072ff46534b23b3388042db64a3e00af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aryadev Chavali <aryadev@aryadevchavali.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:47:05 +0100
Subject: (Emacs)~ripgrep -> ripgrep + grep
+bindings for the in-built grep systems, for compatibility
---
Emacs/.config/emacs/config.org | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
(limited to 'Emacs/.config/emacs')
diff --git a/Emacs/.config/emacs/config.org b/Emacs/.config/emacs/config.org
index f90bcd7..f550101 100644
--- a/Emacs/.config/emacs/config.org
+++ b/Emacs/.config/emacs/config.org
@@ -935,16 +935,47 @@ for exiting insert state. Otherwise, I don't really need it.
(key-chord-define evil-insert-state-map "jk" #'evil-normal-state)
(key-chord-mode +1))
#+end_src
-** Ripgrep
-The ripgrep package provides utilities to grep projects and files for
-strings via the rg tool. Though [[*Ivy][ivy]] comes with =counsel-rg= using it
-makes me dependent on the ivy framework, and this configuration is
-intentionally built to be modular and switchable.
+** (Rip)grep
+*** Grep Preamble
+Grep is a historical artefact. It is a searching utility that allows
+one to search files for certain regex patterns. The fact that there
+have been so many attempts to replace grep (with some success) only
+goes to show how important a tool it is.
+
+Ripgrep is a grep-like utility written in Rust. It subsumes not only
+the ability to search a given file but also to search multiple files
+within a directory (which is usually only found by composing the
+program find with grep to search multiple files). Being incredibly
+fast through its regex optimisations, it also uses ignore files such
+as =.gitignore= to remove files from its searches.
+
+Grep has default Emacs utilities that use a =compilation= style buffer
+to search a variety of differing data sets. =grep= searches files,
+=rgrep= searches in a directory using the =find= binary and =zgrep=
+searches archives. This is a great solution for most environments as
+most of them will have grep and find installed. Even when you =ssh=
+into a remote machine, they're likely to have these tools.
+
+The ripgrep package provides utilities to ripgrep projects and files
+for strings via the rg binary. Though [[*Ivy][ivy]] comes with =counsel-rg=
+using it makes me dependent on the ivy framework, and this
+configuration is intentionally built to be modular and switchable. Of
+course, this requires installing the rg binary which is available in
+most common repositories nowadays. In terms of general speed, this is
+better.
+*** Grep
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+(use-package grep
+ :straight nil
+ :general
+ (leader
+ "sd" #'rgrep))
+#+end_src
+*** rg
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package rg
- :after evil
:general
- (leader "r" #'rg)
+ (leader "sr" #'rg)
(:keymaps 'rg-mode-map
"]]" #'rg-next-file
"[[" #'rg-prev-file
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