Recently I’ve discovered the wonderful life of code review, and although I tried VS code, it felt clunky, and hard to navigate. Don’t get me wrong VS code has its place, and its a decent editor. But I felt more ate home with emacs.
Anyone doing code review will most likely tell you to up your grep game. Or maybe if you spoke to me about code review, I’d tell you that.
Grepping a code base in emacs is actually a rather pleasant experience. Let me show you.
Yeah sure, its not the best example, but it hopefully shows that a new interactive buffer opens with the results.
The code for this is
(setq grep-command "rg --color=always --no-heading --line-number --smart-case --follow ")
(setq grep-find-command "rg --color=always --no-heading --line-number --smart-case --follow --context=5 ")
(setq grep-find-template
"find <D> <X> -type f <F> -exec rg <C> --color=always --no-heading --line-number --smart-case --follow --context=5 <R> /dev/null \\{\\} +")
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c r") 'grep-find)
This is where I change the grep-command to use rg with a few options to give context around the matched word. I then map a keyboard shortcut to C-c r. I’ve also installed the emacs rg plugin, but I don’t find myself using it much. However, I have found myself using counsel-rg for quick searches.
It does not open up in a new buffer, it shows the results in the mini buffer, which means that I cant go back to the results. So I find myself using this for smaller searches.
Until next time.