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The Platinum Searcher (pt) Review

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Review of The Platinum Searcher (pt) powered by the Slant community.

A code search tool similar to ack and The Silver Searcher (ag). It supports multiple platforms and encodings.

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What are the best open source tools for searching source code?

Pros

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Pro
Works with Atom

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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.

Cons

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Con
No package for standard Linux distribution

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