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ripgrep
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Fast
ripgrep has performance similar to raw grep but provides similar level of usability as The Silver Searcher or ACK.
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Does not support encodings other than UTF-8
If you need to search files with text encodings other than UTF-8 (like UTF-16), then ripgrep won’t work. ripgrep will still work on ASCII compatible encodings like latin1 or otherwise partially valid UTF-8. ripgrep may grow support for additional text encodings over time.
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Supports VCS ignore files
ripgrep can speed up by ignoring files matched by pattern in ".rgignore" (deprecated), ".ignore" (since rg-v0.2.0), and VCS ignore files (e.g., currently only ".gitignore").
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Does not support decompression
If you need to search compressed files, ripgrep doesn’t try to do any decompression before searching.
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Speedy even with Unicode (UTF-8) searches
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Does not support arbitrary lookahead/lookbehind assertions
However, it's supported since ripgrep v0.10.0 (2018-09-07) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0100-2018-09-07
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Lock-free parallel recursive directory search
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Does not support backreferences
However, it's supported since ripgrep v0.10.0 (2018-09-07) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0100-2018-09-07
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ripgrep lets you only search certain types of files via file type whitelist
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License:
MIT/Unlicense
Supported platforms:
Windows, MacOS, Linux
Written in:
Rust
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Yes
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The Silver Searcher
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Speed
The Silver Searcher is lightning fast.
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Idiot proof
"ag searchterm" - it's that simple in its purest form.
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Support VCS ignore files
Ag can speed up by ignoring files matched by pattern in ".agignore" (deprecated), ".ignore" (since ag-v0.33.0), and VCS ignore files (.gitignore, .git/info/exclude, .hgignore, svn:ignore).
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Good overview of results
Grouped by file, highlighted with background color, linenumbers by default
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The Silver Searcher (Ag)
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Really fast
It is written in C. It is up to 10 times faster than ack.
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You have to remember commonly used options and add them as flags everytime
You are not able to define options in a config file as there is none. (You have to use a shell alias or wrapper script to get your default options.)
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Simple syntax
Ack-compatible.
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Cannot add custom file types
All file types ag is able to search for are baked into the executable. There is no way to add new ones neither via command line nor via (the not existing) config file. The only way is a pull request on github and waiting for a new release.
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Ignores files in .gitignore by default
It ignores file patterns from your .gitignore, .hgignore and .ignore. This can be a bit buggy though.
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Supports PCRE RegExp
Supports RegEx like look-ahead/behind (only fixed length lookbehind however).
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No need to manage another config file or learn a new config syntax
Everything is managed with command line args, meaning you can store commonly used options through .bashrc aliases, bash scripts, and/or autocompletion. There is no config file format to learn or extra dotfiles to manage.
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vimgrep
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Supports extented regular expressions
Using the \v string at the start of the pattern enables magic (extended regular expressions)
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Slower than external grep solutions
External grep programs can be much faster
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Built in to Vim
You don't need to install any plugins to use vimgrep, it comes built in to vim.
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The Platinum Searcher (pt)
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Works with Atom
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No package for standard Linux distribution
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Fully configurable
Can define specific configuration in each directory using .ptconfig.toml.
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Golang
Writing fully in Go.
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Very fast
3–5× faster than ack. Slightly faster than ag.
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MIT
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Linux, macOS, Windows
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IntelliJ IDEA
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Smart refactorings
IDEA places an emphasis in safe refactoring, offering a variety of features to make this possible for a variety of languages. These features include safe delete, type migration and replacing method code duplicates.
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Slow startup
Startup can be slow depending on system configuration.
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Fast and smart contextual assistance
Uses a fast indexing technique to provide contextual hints (auto-completion, available object members, import suggestions). On-the-fly code analysis to detect errors and propose refactorization.
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Uses a lot of RAM
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Android support, JavaEE support, etc
A very complete development environment support.
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Somewhat expensive
IntelliJ IDEA is fairly expensive, with a pricetag of $149/year. However there is a free community edition available.
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Support for many languages
IntelliJ supports many languages besides Java, some of these are: golang, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Bash, etc.
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Built with closed source components
The version with full features is not opensource. Parts of the code are under apache licence though.
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Lots of plugins
Many plugins are available for almost any task a developer may need to cover. Plugins are developed by Jetbrains themselves or by 3rd parties through the SDK available for writing them.
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Cannot open multiple projects in the same window
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Stable and robust
IntelliJ IDEA hardly ever crashes or has any issues that plague other Java IDEs like file corruption or slowness.
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Lack of plugins
IntelliJ supports a very small amount of plugins. Although these are 'quality approved', many features are missing and can't be implemented because of that.
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Intuitive and slick UI
IDEA has a clean, intuitive interface with some customization available (such as the Darcula theme).
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Bugs are not solved as often as they should
They are more interested in adding new features or issuing new versions than solving bugs.
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Clear and detailed documentation
The documentation is exhaustive, easy to navigate, and clearly worded.
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Standard hotkeys behave differently
Seems like hotkeys assignment in Idea has no logical consistency. Like «F3» is usually next match, «Ctrl+W» - close tab, etc — they map to some different action by default. There is a good effort in making the IDE friendly for immigrants from other products: there are options to use hotkeys from Eclipse, and even emacs. But these mappings are very incomplete. And help pages do not take this remapping into account, rather mentioning the standard hotkeys. So, people coming from other IDEs/editors are doomed to using mouse and context menus (which are rather big and complex).
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Very powerful debugger
With ability to step into a certain part of a large method invocation (Shift+F7), drop frame, executing code snippets, showing method return values, etc.
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Free version available
There is a free community edition (open source) and an ultimate edition, which you can compare here. The ultimate edition is available for free for one year for students but must be registered through an .edu e-mail account.
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Many convenient features
These simplify the daily work, e.g. copy/cut a whole line without the need to select it.
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Gradle support
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Built-in Git support
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Student Benefits
Verify yourselves as a student to get more perks.
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Embedded database support
Creating an embedded database, running SQL script in a dedicated terminal, viewing tables and their contents, and creating a connection to an in-memory or embedded database is fully supported.
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Prices are not bad
I pay $24 a month and i have access to all jetbrain peoducts , so i use their many tools , i tried many others like netbeans , eclipse , etc , they re good but intelij is on the space and the sky is the limit . Been using it for 5 years and i cant tell i got frustrated using .it
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Nirw Search
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Progress Output
By default, display the file being searched.
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Single threaded
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Optional multi-line support
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Unable to update search result as you type
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Color highlight matches
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Tab completion
The command-line for refining a search supports auto-completing based on the current output.
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Can refine the initial search
Initial search can be refined by typing in other terms (optionally exclude from results too).
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Optional regex or literal text searches
While regex is default, sometimes escaping is inconvenient, in these cases you can perform literal searches.
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Total Commander
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Plugins
Supports plugins for compression, file system, and file types.
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Cannot display background colors for file names
While it can display different colors (even based on filters) for the text color of those file names, but not for the background color.
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Can replace a lot of utility tools
There are a lot of built-in utility tools and plug-ins. There's multi-file renamer, verify file checksum to ensure download content integrity, sync directory tool, etc.
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Very slow on loading network shares
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Life-time license
Once purchased you can use it as long as you like and never have to pay again.
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Proprietary
Total Commander offers a free 30-day trial, after which the cost of the program is $44.
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Layout increases productivity
The dual-pane layout makes normal file operations (like move & copy) easy.
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Classic Interface
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Useful multiple advanced options
Show hidden files, show differences between directories, FTP connections, coding and decoding (MIME, l).
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Need to spend a lot of time for custom configuration
Need to spend a lot of time for custom configuration, many features of the steps are very cumbersome to reduce operating speed.
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Very customizable
Total Commander is extremely flexible, with plenty of customizable options such as changing the color scheme, customizing menus, and editing shortcuts.
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Works even when Windows is very unstable
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Productive
Even if you have not learned the keys from DOS NortonCommander, learning them now will make you more productive when dealing with files.
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Powerful file search
The file search has many features, like using regular expressions to find the file names or even inside the content of the files. It can filter by file size, date and others, or even find duplicate files.
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Compare files and show differences
Can compare and show text file differences (diff) line-by-line, even character-by-character. Very useful for programmers. Can compare binary files, telling if files have the same content or not.
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Batch-rename files and folders
Sometimes you want to rename a bunch of files for some reason. Eg: file1-useless info blah blah.mp8 file2-useless info blah blah.mp8 file3-useless info blah blah.mp8 file4-useless info blah blah.mp8 file5-useless info blah blah.mp8 At once you can remove the "-useless info blah blah" in all file names. Or you could change the "file" to "my_super_file" to all at once. The possibilities are endless.
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Saves time
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Cloud plugin
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Customizable tabs
Allows renaming tabs and setting maximum tab text length, which is very convenient. You can also lock tabs in two modes: a) change dir not allowed and b) change dir allowed (but it would return to the original path once you browse another tab). It doesn't allow assigning different colors to each tab, though.
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On copy/move it can both avoid overwrite the destination file AND losing the copied file at the same time
Sometimes you need to copy/move a bunch of files to a folder that already has files. During the copy when Total Commander encounter files in the destination folder that has the same name of the copied files, it allows you to choose auto-rename the copied files or the destination files. It's beautiful.
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Convenient
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Free
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Easy for language translation
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Forget about the mouse
The total commander is convenient to use both with the mouse and exclusively using the keyboard. But using only the keyboard gives it a big increase in the speed of work because you do not aim at your mouse. You need some time to get used to it, but it's really worth it.
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