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[–] jvillasante@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I find consult-ripgrep to be excellent for this.

[–] Kwisacks@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

You have to use emacs regexps though, Both complement each other.

[–] uita23@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same. Consult in general has a bunch of great utility functions that are well integrated with the Emacs core.

I'm looking into dropping Vertico after I upgrade to 29. It's almost incredible that Minad's user focus and humility make that a potentially reasonable option, and I really appreciate the fantastically sound design of his completion ecosystem.

[–] github-alphapapa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm looking into dropping Vertico after I upgrade to 29. It's almost incredible that Minad's user focus and humility make that a potentially reasonable option, and I really appreciate the fantastically sound design of his completion ecosystem.

What do you mean? Vertico is a library that provides a UI for displaying completions; Consult is a library that provides commands to select items with completion. The two libraries complement each other.

[–] oantolin@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think GP agrees with you and meant keeping Consult while dropping Vertico (which is possible due since Consult works with icomplete and with default completion).

[–] github-alphapapa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, so how does Consult relate to not using Vertico anymore?

[–] oantolin@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I think it is unrelated, except in that you can because Consult also works with completion UIs other than Vertico. I'm not sure why he or she mentioned it. 🤷

[–] BeetleB@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] josephkain@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Deadgrep's author has a comparison of you haven't seen it: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep/blob/master/docs/ALTERNATIVES.md#rgel

[–] ricZola@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

More or less both provide the same experience.

[–] github-alphapapa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Any mention of code search should probably include the built-in project-find-regexp.

[–] Falcomomo@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Nice blog, thanks for posting.