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I’m stuck with rg right now because it’s the only ine which correctly handles gitignore files. Generally quite happy with it but I wish it could also use a more powerful regex engine for some less common cases.

Most annoying thing is that $ does not work with windows newlines.



Have you tried sift? https://sift-tool.org/


sift addresses neither of the GP's concerns with ripgrep. It's also much much slower than ripgrep on almost anything other than simple literal scans.


ack doesn't do git ignore right? The matrix suggests it does, and I thought it did, but I don't use it routinely.


It supports a subset but not a very good one. At least it fails to handle leading slashes.


ack does not look in .gitignore files at all.




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