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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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Finds text inside zip files
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Flawed search
Two term search fails to find documents that contain the second term that are found by searching for the first of those terms.
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Python language integration
Python extension for Python 2 and Python 3.
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Does not index all document types natively
Since it does not index all file types natively, it may need extensions and plugins to be able to find them.
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Repositories and packaged binaries available
Can be easily installed through official repositories for popular distros, or alternatively it can also be built from source.
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