Same here.

Ripgrep works like a charm

Ack requires Perl, which I am not going to install just for that purpose.

What kind of OS are you running that Perl isn't installed already?

An ideal one.

Like, platonic ideal- because it doesn't exist. That greatly ideal.

I don't know why I care, other than even the super cut down perl being a sizable % of the install size for some of the very small systems I've worked with.

Sorry if this sounds rude, but how do you not have perl already installed? It's come with every distro I've ever used.

I switched also recently, the thing that helped me was adding this:

alias rg='rg -S'

to my .bashrc so that rg had the same default case sensitivity as ag.

I do wish the persistent config file enhancement had a significant chance of becoming a reality. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/196

I understand alias'es and wrappers fine, but I like having the environment have some way to contribute. It's just my simple preference.

There's also the related #314 which makes even more sense- per project configuration. Sure would be great being able to download a project & have it already setup nicely for ripgrep! https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/314

> I do wish the persistent config file enhancement had a significant chance of becoming a reality.

As the ticket says (I think), tt's going to happen. It's just a lot of tedious work.

Wow, cool. Thanks burntsushi. rg is already amazing. This project really has gotten an enormous amount of love & effort from you & it really shows through & through.

Your implementation of the gitignore algorithm is crazy impressive to me.

I made the switch too (from grep to rg). I really like it so far. It is a little more faster than grep for my use!